Womens World Cup 2025: Match 1, IND-W vs SL-W Match Prediction

IND-W vs SL-W Match Preview

The Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 is set to begin with an opening match of the tournament at Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati on September 30. The tournament is being hosted by India after 12 years and India Women (IND-W) will be looking to win their first-ever ICC title in front of their home crowd. The Women in Blue failed to reach the semi-finals in the previous edition in 2022 and will be looking to turn things around this year.

Talking about Sri Lanka Women, they will be coming as underdogs and will look to stun India Women in the opening game of 2025 Women’s Cricket World Cup. Let’s have a look at today’s cricket match prediction, pitch report, head-to-head and key players ahead of the first match of 2025 Women’s Cricket World Cup between India Women and Sri Lanka Women.

IND-W vs SL-W Match Details

Match	India Women vs Sri Lanka Women, 1st match
Venue	Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati
Date & Time	Tuesday, September 30, 8:00 PM (IST)
Live Broadcast & Streaming Details	JioHotstar (app and website) and Star Sports Network

IND-W vs SL-W Pitch Report

pitch report

The surface of the Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati is known for its support for the batters and we might witness a high scoring clash at this ground. Out of three ODI matches played at this ground, the team won batting first won once while the chasing side came out victorious twice .

IND-W vs SL-W Head-to-Head Stats and Records

India Women and Sri Lanka have faced each other 35 times in the ODI format so far. Out of these 35 matches, India Women have a dominant record over Sri Lanka Women with 31 wins while the Lankan Women have defeated them on three occasions with one game ending in no result.

Matches played	35
India Women	31
Sri Lanka Women	3
No Result	1

IND-W vs SL-W Weather Report

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IND-W vs SL-W Probable Playing XIs

India Women: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wk), Pratika Rawal, Smriti Mandhana, Harleen Deol, Sneh Rana, Radha Yadav, Arundhati Reddy, Kranti Gaud, Renuka Singh Thakur

Sri Lanka Women: Hasini Perera, Vishmi Gunaratne, Harshitha Samarawickrama, Chamari Athapaththu (c), Piumi Badalge, Nilakshi de Silva, Anushka Sanjeewani (wk), Dewmi Vihanga, Sugandika Kumari, Malki Madara, Inoka Ranaweera

IND-W vs SL-W Women’s WC 2025 Squads

India Women: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana, Pratika Rawal, Harleen Deol, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh, Yastika Bhatia, Renuka Singh Thakur, Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Kranti Goud, Shree Charani, Radha Yadav, Amanjot Kaur, Arundhati Reddy

Sri Lanka Women: Chamari Athapaththu (c), Hasini Perera, Vishmi Gunarathne, Harshitha Samarawickrama, Kavisha Dilhari, Nilakshi De Silva, Anushka Sanjeewani, Imesha Dulani, Dewmi Vihanga, Piumi Wathsala, Inoka Ranaweera, Sugandika Kumari, Udeshika Prabodani, Malki Madara, Achini Kulasooriya.

IND-W vs SL-W Predicted Top Batter

Smriti Mandhana: Star opening batter Smriti Mandhana can turn out to be a key player in the opening match of Women’s Cricket World Cup against Sri Lanka Women. Mandhana looked in great touch in the recently ended ODI series against Australia Women and smashed two hundreds and a fifty in her last two ODI innings.

IND-W vs SL-W Predicted Top Bowler

Arundhati Reddy: India Women fast bowler Arundhati Reddy can be key player in the match against Sri Lanka Women in Guwahati. She has been a constant wicket taker for India Women in the ODI format in recent times and will looking produce a match-winning spell against Sri Lanka in the first match of the tournament.