India staged a superb comeback after a middle-order collapse to beat Sri Lanka by 59 runs in a rain-affected opening match of the Ladies’s World Cup in Guwahati.

The hosts misplaced 4 wickets for 4 runs within the house of 11 balls, together with three within the twenty sixth over for spinner Inoka Ranaweera, which noticed them slip to 124-6.

However Amanjot Kaur and Deepti Sharma produced a match-winning partnership of 103 for the seventh wicket as Sri Lanka had been unable to keep up their preliminary self-discipline within the discipline, with the previous dropped 4 occasions on her option to 57.

Sneh Rana added some late impetus with 28 from 15 balls and Sharma fell for 53 from the final ball of the innings as India recovered to publish a aggressive 269-8 from 47 overs, with three overs misplaced from rain delays.

That noticed Sri Lanka’s goal revised to 271 from the identical quantity of overs, they usually made a promising begin by reaching 82-1 however skipper Chamari Athapaththu’s dismissal for 43 on the finish of the fifteenth over stalled their progress.

Athapaththu’s second-wicket stand of 52 with Harshitha Samarawickrama saved the guests within the sport, however they lacked India’s batting depth and couldn’t get better from a droop to 140-6 they usually had been ultimately bowled out for 211 within the forty sixth over.

Sharma added figures of 3-54 to her half-century as India entertained a energetic crowd of twenty-two,843 – a document for a Ladies’s World Cup group sport – whereas fellow spinners Sneh Rana and Shree Charani took 2-32 and 2-37 respectively.

The match continues with defending champions Australia taking up New Zealand in Indore on Wednesday, whereas England begin their marketing campaign towards South Africa on Friday.