Asian Games 2026: A take a look at knockout data of Smriti-Shafali-Harmanpreet forward of gold medal conflict

Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 21 (ANI): During the Asian Games cricket event closing towards Sri Lanka, the Indian batting trio of Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma and Harmanpreet Kaur will play an enormous position in India’s probabilities of a second successive gold in ladies’s cricket. 

Just days after squaring off within the title conflict for the Asia Cup, India and Sri Lanka will probably be locking horns for the Asian Games ladies’s cricket gold in Japan on Tuesday. 

Shafali, who has been in scintillating type in knockout video games since her masterful 87 towards South Africa within the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup at dwelling final yr, cracked her maiden T20I ton towards Bangladesh within the semifinals on Sunday, together with her 49-ball 100* being laced with three fours and 9 sixes. Shafali additionally turned the second Indian to achieve 100 ladies’s T20I sixes, reaching a rely of 104 sixes, essentially the most by an Indian batter. 

In T20 knockout matches throughout worldwide and franchise cricket, Shafali has made 354 runs in 12 matches and innings at a mean of 35.4, with a strike fee of 159.45, together with a century and a fifty. Her greatest rating is 100*. 

India’s record-breaking lady Smriti Mandhana additionally has had her moments in T20 knockout matches, having made 329 runs in 13 innings at a mean of 25.3, with a strike fee of 132.12, together with a fifty, the very best rating of 87 within the Women’s Premier League (WPL) closing for Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) this yr. 

Lastly, Harmanpreet, who has typically stepped up for India in huge matches, has essentially the most constant document of the three, scoring 324 runs in 12 matches at a mean of 121.34, together with two fifties and a greatest rating of 66 for Mumbai Indians (MI) towards Delhi Capitals (DC) within the 2025 WPL closing. 

Squads: India Women Squad: Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Gunalan Kamalini, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Richa Ghosh(w), Bharti Fulmali, Deepti Sharma, Shreyanka Patil, Shree Charani, Nandani Sharma, Kranti Gaud, Renuka Singh Thakur, Arundhati Reddy, Radha Yadav Sri Lanka Women Squad: Imesha Dulani, Chamari Athapaththu(c), Hasini Perera, Harshitha Samarawickrama, Kavisha Dilhari, Hansima Karunaratne, Kaushani Nuthyangana(w), Mithali Ayodhya, Kawya Kavindi, Chamudi Praboda, Sugandika Kumari, Rashmika Sewwandi, Nimasha Meepage, Sanjana Kavindi, Anushka Sanjeewani. (ANI)