India Women vs Sri Lanka Head-to-Head: ODI, T20I & Test Record

India and Sri Lanka have never played a women's Test match. The fixture exists only in the two white-ball formats, it did not begin until 2000, and it has been comfortably one-sided ever since. Across the matches with complete ball-by-ball records — fifteen one-day internationals since May 2008 and twenty-one Twenty20 internationals since October 2012 — India have won twelve and seventeen respectively.

What makes the fixture worth reading closely is not the win-loss column but where the three Sri Lankan one-day wins came from. All three were chases or defences of substantial totals: 282 for 5 at the Brabourne Stadium in February 2013, 257 for 7 chasing 254 at Chilaw in September 2018, and 278 for 7 chasing 276 at the R Premadasa Stadium in May 2025. Sri Lanka have not beaten India in a low-scoring one-day international in the archive era. When they have won, they have done it by outscoring India rather than by bowling them out.

The fixture's centre of gravity is Sri Lanka. Most of these matches have been played there — at Pallekele, Dambulla, Galle, Colombo and Chilaw — and India's dominance has been built away from home, which is unusual for a subcontinental rivalry.

The head-to-head, format by format

Format	Span	Played	India won	Sri Lanka won	No result
Test	—	0	—	—	—
ODI	2008–2025	15	12	3	0
T20I	2012–2025	21	17	3	1
Both formats	2008–2025	36	29	6	1

These counts cover matches with complete delivery-level records and are not the entire history of the fixture, which begins in 2000. The scope is stated plainly in the sources note below rather than presented as an all-time total.

The absence of a Test is the structural fact about this rivalry. Sri Lanka Women have played very few Tests in their history, and none against India. Every other major opponent India women have faced — England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, West Indies — has given them at least one match in the format. The wider picture of India's red-ball women's cricket is on the India women's cricket history page.

The one-day record

Date	Venue	Scores	Result
8 May 2008	Welagedara Stadium	Sri Lanka 123-9; India 124-2	India won by 8 wickets
11 May 2008	Welagedara Stadium	India 260-7; Sri Lanka 83	India won by 177 runs
5 Feb 2013	Brabourne Stadium	Sri Lanka 282-5; India 144	Sri Lanka won by 138 runs
7 Feb 2017	P Sara Oval	India 259-4; Sri Lanka 145-8	India won by 114 runs
5 Jul 2017	County Ground, Derby	India 232-8; Sri Lanka 216-7	India won by 16 runs
11 Sep 2018	Galle	Sri Lanka 98; India 100-1	India won by 9 wickets
13 Sep 2018	Galle	India 219; Sri Lanka 212	India won by 7 runs
16 Sep 2018	Chilaw	India 253-5; Sri Lanka 257-7	Sri Lanka won by 3 wickets
1 Jul 2022	Pallekele	Sri Lanka 171; India 176-6	India won by 4 wickets
4 Jul 2022	Pallekele	Sri Lanka 173; India 174-0	India won by 10 wickets
7 Jul 2022	Pallekele	India 255-9; Sri Lanka 216	India won by 39 runs
27 Apr 2025	R Premadasa	Sri Lanka 147; India 149-1	India won by 9 wickets
4 May 2025	R Premadasa	India 275-9; Sri Lanka 278-7	Sri Lanka won by 3 wickets
11 May 2025	R Premadasa	India 342-7; Sri Lanka 245	India won by 97 runs
30 Sep 2025	Guwahati	India 269-8; Sri Lanka 211	India won by 59 runs

India's 342 for 7 at the R Premadasa Stadium on 11 May 2025 is their highest total in the fixture, and Smriti Mandhana was player of the match. It came a week after the defeat in the same series in which Sri Lanka chased 276.

Sri Lanka's 83 all out at Welagedara in May 2008 is the lowest completed innings the fixture has produced, and India's 144 at the Brabourne Stadium in February 2013 is their own lowest. The February 2013 match is the only one of the fifteen India lost by a wide margin.

The 4 July 2022 result at Pallekele is the fixture's most emphatic: Sri Lanka were bowled out for 173 and India chased it without losing a wicket, Renuka Singh taking the award for a four-wicket haul. Ten-wicket wins are rare enough in women's one-day cricket to be worth noting.

The Twenty20 record

India have won seventeen of twenty-one, lost three and had one abandoned. The three defeats came in March 2014 at Sylhet, in June 2022 at Dambulla, and in July 2024 at Dambulla — the last of those a chase of 166 completed with eight wickets and eight balls in hand.

The most recent block is the most lopsided. India played Sri Lanka five times in December 2025, at Visakhapatnam and Thiruvananthapuram, and won all five. Three of those wins came with more than six overs unused. India's 221 for 2 at the Greenfield International Stadium on 28 December 2025 is their highest Twenty20 total in the fixture, made in a match Mandhana won the award for.

India's highest T20I totals v Sri Lanka	Overs	Result	Venue	Date
221/2	20	won	Thiruvananthapuram	28 Dec 2025
175/7	20	won	Thiruvananthapuram	30 Dec 2025
172/3	20	won	Dubai	9 Oct 2024
165/6	20	lost	Dambulla	28 Jul 2024
156	18.5	won	Chilaw	25 Sep 2018
150/6	20	won	Sylhet	1 Oct 2022

Sri Lanka's 65 for 9 at Sylhet in October 2022 is the lowest total in the fixture in either format, chased down by India in 8.5 overs. Their 49 for 3 at the Colts ground in September 2018 was an abandonment rather than a completed innings.

The October 2024 win at Dubai came in the group stage of a global tournament and was India's largest Twenty20 margin against Sri Lanka at 82 runs, with Harmanpreet Kaur player of the match. The format's records are on the India women most sixes page.

India's leading run scorers

One-day internationals, 150 runs or more in the fixture:

Player	Inns	Runs	HS	Ave	SR	4s	6s
Smriti Mandhana	10	435	116	48.33	95.0	59	5
Mithali Raj	6	422	125	105.50	76.3	45	1
Deepti Sharma	12	305	78	43.57	72.3	25	2
Harmanpreet Kaur	12	275	75	27.50	80.2	25	3
Harleen Deol	7	207	48	41.40	77.0	20	0
Shafali Verma	4	155	71	77.50	96.3	10	3
A Rawat	2	153	97	153.00	82.7	20	2
Pratika Rawal	4	152	50	50.67	72.7	15	2

Mithali Raj's average of 105.50 against Sri Lanka is the highest by any India batter in the fixture and among the highest she recorded against any opponent. She was dismissed four times in six innings and made 422 runs, including a 125.

Mandhana's 435 is the largest aggregate and she is the only India batter with two scores above 100 in the fixture in the archive. Deepti Sharma's 305 runs from twelve innings at 43.57, with a highest of 78, describes a middle-order role rather than a top-order one — and her bowling record against Sri Lanka is the stronger half of her contribution.

Twenty20 internationals, 100 runs or more:

Player	Inns	Runs	HS	Ave	SR	4s	6s
Jemimah Rodrigues	14	511	76	46.45	133.4	60	9
Harmanpreet Kaur	14	474	68	43.09	123.4	42	12
Smriti Mandhana	19	444	80	26.12	122.3	60	9
Shafali Verma	12	424	79	38.55	139.0	59	7
Richa Ghosh	6	111	40	22.20	158.6	10	6
Mithali Raj	6	103	28	20.60	79.2	13	0

Jemimah Rodrigues's 511 runs at 46.45 and a strike rate of 133.4 is the best combination in the fixture and her most productive record against any opponent in the format. She has been player of the match against Sri Lanka three times.

Shafali Verma's strike rate of 139.0 is the highest among the top four, and Richa Ghosh's 158.6 from six innings the highest overall on a smaller sample. Harmanpreet Kaur's twelve sixes are the most by any India batter in the fixture. The wider records are on the India women most fifties page and the India women most centuries page.

India's leading wicket takers

One-day internationals, six wickets or more:

Player	Wkts	Balls	Runs	Ave	Econ	Best
Deepti Sharma	15	624	411	27.40	3.95	3/25
Jhulan Goswami	12	314	197	16.42	3.76	3/64
Sneh Rana	12	224	155	12.92	4.15	4/38
Rajeshwari Gayakwad	9	324	175	19.44	3.24	3/37
Renuka Singh	7	144	93	13.29	3.88	4/30
Manasi Joshi	7	163	148	21.14	5.45	3/17
Poonam Yadav	6	204	127	21.17	3.74	2/13
N Shree Charani	6	216	193	32.17	5.36	2/30

Sneh Rana's twelve wickets at 12.92 is the best average in the table and the most economical route to a dozen wickets any India bowler has taken in the fixture — 224 deliveries for twelve wickets is a wicket every 18.7 balls.

Rajeshwari Gayakwad's economy of 3.24 across 324 deliveries is the tightest, and Jhulan Goswami's 16.42 the best average among the bowlers with more than 300 balls. Deepti Sharma's fifteen is the leading haul and comes from more than twice the workload of anyone else.

Twenty20 internationals, five wickets or more:

Player	Wkts	Balls	Runs	Ave	Econ	Best
Deepti Sharma	18	395	387	21.50	5.88	3/18
Radha Yadav	13	191	234	18.00	7.35	4/23
Renuka Singh	11	186	205	18.64	6.61	4/22
Arundhati Reddy	9	174	216	24.00	7.45	3/19
Poonam Yadav	8	138	130	16.25	5.65	3/18
Anuja Patil	6	130	130	21.67	6.00	3/36
Rajeshwari Gayakwad	6	72	61	10.17	5.08	2/16

Deepti Sharma's eighteen Twenty20 wickets on top of her fifteen in the one-day format makes her comfortably the most productive India bowler in the fixture across both, with 33 wickets in 36 matches. Radha Yadav's 4 for 23 and Renuka Singh's 4 for 22 are the two best innings returns.

Rajeshwari Gayakwad's average of 10.17 is the lowest in either table, from a 72-ball sample. Poonam Yadav's economy of 5.65 across 138 deliveries is the most restrictive from a meaningful workload. The fuller picture is on the India women most wickets page and the India women best bowling figures page.

Where the fixture is played, and why it matters

Ten of the fifteen one-day internationals in the archive were played in Sri Lanka and India won eight of them. Only two have been played in India — the February 2013 defeat at the Brabourne Stadium and the September 2025 World Cup win at Guwahati — and the other three were at neutral venues in England, Malaysia and Bangladesh.

That distribution is unusual. India's fixtures against England, Australia and New Zealand are split much more evenly between home and away, and India's away record against those sides is markedly worse than their home record. Against Sri Lanka the away record is the record, and it is dominant.

The likely explanation is conditions rather than scheduling. Pallekele, Dambulla, Galle and Colombo are slow, spin-friendly grounds, and India's strongest suit in this fixture has been slow bowling — Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Rajeshwari Gayakwad and Poonam Yadav account for a large majority of the wickets in both tables above. India travel to Sri Lanka with an attack suited to what they find there, which is not true of their tours to England or New Zealand.

The recent trend is toward wider margins rather than closer ones. The five Twenty20 internationals of December 2025 all went India's way, three of them with more than six overs to spare, and the May 2025 one-day series finished 2-1 to India with a 342 for 7 in the decider.

What the fixture is missing

Two things stand out about this rivalry that are absent from the tables.

There has never been a Test. For a fixture that has now produced more than thirty completed white-ball matches across a quarter of a century between two neighbouring full members, that is a striking gap, and it reflects how little women's Test cricket Sri Lanka have played rather than anything about the pairing.

And the fixture has produced very few close finishes. Of the 35 completed matches in the archive, India have won by seven runs at Galle in September 2018, by sixteen runs at Derby in July 2017, and by four wickets at Pallekele in July 2022; Sri Lanka's three-wicket wins in 2018 and 2025 were both tight. That is five genuinely close results in 35 matches. The comparison with the New Zealand fixture, where the India women vs New Zealand head-to-head record runs the other way and much closer, is instructive, as is the India women vs South Africa head-to-head page. The Sri Lankan game's own story is at the cricket in Sri Lanka hub, India's women's structure on the India women's domestic cricket page, and the rest of the Indian game at the cricket in India hub.

Sources and method

Results, margins, totals, individual scores, tosses and player-of-the-match awards are computed from ball-by-ball delivery records for women's one-day internationals and Twenty20 internationals between India and Sri Lanka, covering May 2008 to December 2025, and were checked against ESPNcricinfo scorecards for the corresponding matches, read on 30 August 2026.

The match counts on this page are explicitly not all-time. The two sides first met in a one-day international in 2000, and matches before the ball-by-ball era are outside the data this page rests on. Published all-time summaries of this fixture disagree with one another on the totals, so rather than reproduce a figure that cannot be reconciled, the page states the span it covers and counts within it.

That the two sides have never played a women's Test match was confirmed against both boards' Test records rather than inferred from the absence of matches in the archive.

Batting and bowling tables carry a stated runs or wickets threshold. Averages are runs per dismissal, economy is runs per six legal deliveries, and strike rate for batters is runs per hundred balls. Where a player is recorded only by initials in the source data and the full name could not be confirmed, the initial form is kept.

Figures for current players will move with the next series between the sides.