2025 Sri Lanka Women's Tri-Nation Series

2025 Sri Lanka Women's Tri-Nation Series
Date	27 April – 11 May 2025
Location	Sri Lanka
Result	India won the series
Player of the series	Sneh Rana
Teams   Sri Lanka   India   South Africa Captains Chamari Athapaththu Harmanpreet Kaur Laura Wolvaardt [a] Most runs Harshitha Samarawickrama (203) Smriti Mandhana (264) Annerie Dercksen (276) Most wickets Dewmi Vihanga (11) Sneh Rana (15) Nonkululeko Mlaba (6) Chloe Tryon (6)
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The 2025 Sri Lanka Women's Tri-Nation Series was a cricket series that took place in Sri Lanka in April and May 2025. ^[1] It was a tri-nation series involving India, South Africa and Sri Lanka cricket teams, with the matches played in One Day International (ODI) format. ^[2] It was the first women's tri-nation international series hosted by Sri Lanka. ^[3] The series served as preparation ahead of the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup. ^[4] All of the matches were played at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo in a double round-robin format. ^[5] In the final, India defeated Sri Lanka by 97 runs to win the series. ^{[6] [7]}

Squads

Sri Lanka [8]	India [9]	South Africa [10]
Chamari Athapaththu (c) Kavisha Dilhari Vishmi Gunaratne Hansima Karunaratne Achini Kulasuriya Sugandika Kumari Malki Madara Manudi Nanayakkara Hasini Perera Inoshi Priyadharshani Inoka Ranaweera Harshitha Samarawickrama Anushka Sanjeewani (wk) Rashmika Sewwandi Nilakshi de Silva Dewmi Vihanga Piumi Wathsala	Harmanpreet Kaur (c) Smriti Mandhana (vc) Yastika Bhatia (wk) Shree Charani Harleen Deol Kashvee Gautam Richa Ghosh (wk) Kranti Goud Tejal Hasabnis Amanjot Kaur Sneh Rana Pratika Rawal Arundhati Reddy Jemimah Rodrigues Deepti Sharma Shuchi Upadhyay	Laura Wolvaardt (c) Anneke Bosch Tazmin Brits Nadine de Klerk Annerie Dercksen Lara Goodall Sinalo Jafta (wk) Ayabonga Khaka Masabata Klaas Suné Luus Karabo Meso (wk) Nonkululeko Mlaba Seshnie Naidu Nondumiso Shangase Miané Smit Chloe Tryon

On 17 April, Anneke Bosch was ruled out the series due to illness, and was replaced by Lara Goodall. ^[11]

On 6 May, Kashvee Gautam was ruled out of the tournament due to injury, with Kranti Goud named as her replacement. ^[12]

Points table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR	Qualification
1	India	4	3	1	0	0	6	0.457	Advanced to the final
2	Sri Lanka (H)	4	2	2	0	0	4	−0.542
3	South Africa	4	1	3	0	0	2	0.083

Source: ESPNcricinfo ^[13]
(H) Host

Fixtures

1st ODI

27 April 2025 10:00 Scorecard

Sri Lanka   147 (38.1 overs)	v	India 149/1 (29.4 overs)
Hasini Perera 30 (46) Sneh Rana 3/31 (8 overs)		Pratika Rawal 50* (62) Inoka Ranaweera 1/32 (7.4 overs)

India won by 9 wickets R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Anna Harris (Eng) and Nimali Perera (SL) Player of the match: Pratika Rawal (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• The match was reduced to 39 overs per side due to rain and wet outfield.
• Malki Madara, Piumi Wathsala (SL), Shree Charani and Kashvee Gautam (Ind) all made their ODI debuts.

2nd ODI

29 April 2025 10:00 Scorecard

India   276/6 (50 overs)	v	South Africa 261 (49.2 overs)
Pratika Rawal 78 (91) Nonkululeko Mlaba 2/55 (10 overs)		Tazmin Brits 109 (107) Sneh Rana 5/43 (10 overs)

India won by 15 runs R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Anna Harris (Eng) and Dedunu Silva (SL) Player of the match: Sneh Rana (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• Karabo Meso (SA) made her ODI debut.
• Sneh Rana (Ind) took her first five-wicket haul in ODIs. ^{[14] [15]}

3rd ODI

2 May 2025 10:00 Scorecard

South Africa   235/9 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 237/5 (46.3 overs)
Annerie Dercksen 61* (60) Malki Madara 4/50 (10 overs)		Harshitha Samarawickrama 77 (93) Nonkululeko Mlaba 2/44 (10 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Anna Harris (Eng) and Nimali Perera (SL) Player of the match: Harshitha Samarawickrama (SL)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
• Dewmi Vihanga (SL) made her ODI debut.
• Kavisha Dilhari played in her 100th international match. ^[16]
• Harshitha Samarawickrama and Kavisha Dilhari's 128 run partnership became the Sri Lanka's highest for the 4th wicket in women's ODIs, breaking the record of 118 between Chamani Seneviratne and Hiroshi Abeysinghe in 2002. ^[17]

4th ODI

4 May 2025 10:00 Scorecard

India   275/9 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 278/7 (49.1 overs)
Richa Ghosh 58 (48) Chamari Athapaththu 3/43 (10 overs)		Nilakshi de Silva 56 (33) Sneh Rana 3/45 (10 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 3 wickets R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Anna Harris (Eng) and Dedunu Silva (SL) Player of the match: Nilakshi de Silva (SL)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
• Smriti Mandhana (Ind) played in her 100th ODI match. ^[18]
• This was the highest match aggregate (553) involving India and Sri Lanka in women's ODIs. ^[19]

5th ODI

7 May 2025 10:00 Scorecard

India   337/9 (50 overs)	v	South Africa 314/7 (50 overs)
Jemimah Rodrigues 123 (101) Nadine de Klerk 2/54 (9 overs)		Annerie Dercksen 81 (80) Amanjot Kaur 3/59 (9 overs)

India won by 23 runs R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Anna Harris (Eng) and Nimali Perera (SL) Player of the match: Jemimah Rodrigues (Ind)

• South Africa won the toss and elected to field.
• Shuchi Upadhyay (Ind) and Miané Smit (SA) both made their ODI debuts.
• Deepti Sharma and Jemimah Rodrigues's 122 run partnership became the India's highest for the 5th wicket in women's ODIs, breaking the record of 108 between Mithali Raj and Veda Krishnamurthy in 2017. ^{[20] [21]}
• This was the highest match aggregate (651) involving India and South Africa in women's ODIs. ^[22]

6th ODI

9 May 2025 10:00 Scorecard

South Africa   315/9 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 239 (42.5 overs)
Annerie Dercksen 104 (84) Dewmi Vihanga 5/43 (9 overs)		Chamari Athapaththu 52 (57) Chloe Tryon 5/34 (8 overs)

South Africa won by 76 runs R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Anna Harris (Eng) and Dedunu Silva (SL) Player of the match: Chloe Tryon (SA)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
• Seshnie Naidu (SA) made her ODI debut.
• Dewmi Vihanga (SL) took her first five-wicket haul in ODIs. ^[23]
• Annerie Dercksen (SA) scored her maiden century in ODIs. ^[24]
• Annerie Dercksen and Chloe Tryon's 112 run partnership became South Africa's highest for the 7th wicket in women's ODIs, breaking the record of 94 between Cindy Eksteen and Ally Kuylaars in 2000. ^[25]
• Chloe Tryon (SA) took her first five-wicket haul and first hat-trick in ODIs. ^[26]

Final

11 May 2025 10:00 Scorecard

India   342/7 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 245 (48.2 overs)
Smriti Mandhana 116 (101) Sugandika Kumari 2/59 (10 overs)		Chamari Athapaththu 51 (66) Sneh Rana 4/38 (9.2 overs)

India won by 97 runs R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Anna Harris (Eng) and Nimali Perera (SL) Player of the match: Smriti Mandhana (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• Kranti Goud (Ind) made her ODI debut.

Statistics

Leading run-scorers ^[27]

Name	Team	Runs	Innings
Annerie Dercksen	South Africa	276	4
Smriti Mandhana	India	264	5
Jemimah Rodrigues	India	245	4
Harshitha Samarawickrama	Sri Lanka	203	5
Chloe Tryon	South Africa	194	4
Pratika Rawal	India		5

Leading wicket-takers ^[28]

Name	Team	Wickets	Matches
Sneh Rana	India	15	5
Dewmi Vihanga	Sri Lanka	11	4
Amanjot Kaur	India	6	2
Nonkululeko Mlaba	South Africa		3
Chloe Tryon	South Africa		4
Sugandika Kumari	Sri Lanka		4
Shree Charani	India		5
Malki Madara	Sri Lanka		5

Broadcasting

This is the list of channels for the Sri Lanka and Global. ^[29]

Territory	Rights holder(s)
Sri Lanka	TV: ThePapare 2 on Dialog Television Digital: ThePapare.com (Website and Facebook) & Dialog VIU App YouTube: Sri Lanka Cricket
India	TV & Digital: FanCode
Global	YouTube: Sri Lanka Cricket

Notes

1. Chloe Tryon captained South Africa in the fifth ODI.

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External links

• Series home at ESPNcricinfo