Toss Sri Lanka chose to bowl vs India
Both teams made two changes to the XIs that featured in the third T20I in Visakhapatnam. Sri Lanka brought in seamer Kawya Kavindi and all-rounder Rashmika Sewwandi in place of left-arm spinner Inoka Ranaweera and seamer Malki Madara. Athapaththu, playing in her 150th T20I for Sri Lanka, felt that “chasing is a bit easier because of the dew” and that 140 would be a good score to restrict India to.
Harmanpreet Kaur conceded that India had also wanted to bat first, but said the team did not have any specific target in mind and that “hopefully, we set a good total”.
India: 1 Smriti Mandhana, 2 Shafali Verma, 3 Harleen Deol, 4 Harmanpreet Kaur (capt.), 5 Richa Ghosh (wk), 6 Deepti Sharma, 7 Amanjot Kaur, 8 Renuka Singh, 9 Arundhati Reddy, 10 Vaishnavi Sharma, 11 Shree Charani
Sri Lanka: 1 Chamari Athapaththu (capt.), 2 Hasini Perera, 3 Harshitha Samarawickrama, 4 Imesha Dulani, 5 Nilakshika Silva, 6 Kaushini Nuthyangana (wk), 7 Kavisha Dilhari, 8 Rashmika Sewwandi, 9 Kawya Kavindi, 10 Malsha Snehani, 11 Nimasha Meepage