Delhi : On the strength of the brilliant performance of Shefali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Shri Charani and Deepti Sharma, the Indian women's cricket team has won the trophy by defeating Sri Lanka by 72 runs in the title match of Women's Asia Cup 2026. Team India has captured the Asia Cup trophy for the eighth time. In response to the big target of 184 runs given by India, the Sri Lankan team collapsed for 111 runs in 20 overs.

Magic of Sri Charani and Deepti, Sri Lankan team restricted to 111

The Sri Lankan team, which came to chase the big target of 184 runs, got a big blow in the very first over, when Kranti Gaur bowled Imesha Dulani (4). After this, captain Chamari Athapattu (36) and Vishmi Gunaratne (20) played cautiously and took the innings forward and added 58 runs for the second wicket.

Deepti Sharma was successful in breaking this pair. He turned the match in India's favor by getting captain Chamari Athapattu stumped by Richa Ghosh in the 10th over. Right after this, Deepti also broke Sri Lanka's back by bowling Vishmi Gunaratne.

Then the real storm of young spin bowler Shri Charani started. He destroyed the middle order and lower order and took 4 big wickets for just 20 runs by bowling 1 maiden in his 4 over spell. Mr. Charani showed the way to the pavilion to Harshita Samarawickrama (9), Nilakshika de Silva (22), Kavisha Dilhari (7) and Sugandika Kumari (1).

Tight bowling by Indian bowlers

Deepti Sharma dismissed Kaushani Nutyangana (9) in the last over and bundled out the entire Sri Lankan team for 111 runs. Deepti took 3 wickets for 19 runs in 4 overs. Apart from them, Kranti Gaur (1/8), Prema Rawat (1/22) and Shefali Verma (1/23) got 1 success each.

Heavy team's innings account

Earlier, after winning the toss and batting, the Indian team had scored a huge score of 183 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. For India, opener Shefali Verma played a stormy innings of 68 runs in just 39 balls, in which she also scored the fastest half-century (24 balls) in the history of Asia Cup.

Whereas, vice-captain Smriti Mandhana scored 59 runs in 39 balls. There was a century partnership of 129 runs between the two for the first wicket, which laid the foundation of India's title victory. This is the highest partnership for any wicket in the Women's Asia Cup.

However, after Mandhana and Shefali were out, Harmanpreet Kaur, Deepti Sharma and Richa Ghosh could not do anything special. Team India scored 183/5 after playing the entire over.