Colombo The Indian women's cricket team will compete with hosts Sri Lanka on Sunday in the first match of the tri -series. The Indian team led by Harmanpreet Kaur will be eyeing the performance of young players including fast bowler Kashvi Gautam. The Indian team will also start preparations for the ODI World Cup to be held this year through this tournament. The third team of the Tri -series is South Africa.

The batting order of the Indian team, which reached Sri Lanka tour, looks good but it needs to prepare a single bowling combination. Kashvi Gautam of the under-19 women's T20 World Cup winning team performed well in WPL. He took 11 wickets in nine matches for Gujarat giant at an economy rate of 6.45. They will be expected from them. Indian fast bowling is dependent on Arundhati Reddy due to the injury of Titas Sadhu, Renuka Singh and Pooja Vastrakar. All -rounder Amanjot Kaur is also a medium pacer.

India and Sri Lanka will compete at Premdasa Stadium in Colombo. Spinners have always been dominated on the pitch here. In such a situation, along with off-spinners Deepti Sharma and Sneh Rana, Mumbai Indians' left-arm spinner Mr. Charani is expected to throw 30 overs out of 50. Harmanpreet can also bowl off-brak if needed.

Shefali Verma has been ignored once again. Despite this, Indian batting looks strong in the presence of captain Harmanpreet, vice-captain Smriti Mandhana, Power-Hitter Richa Ghosh, Jemima Rodrigues and Harleen Deol. Deepti and Amanjot are also able to bat well. The Indian team had defeated West Indies and Ireland in three ODIs before the Tri -series and will try to continue this process of victory.

As far as Sri Lanka is concerned, many changes have been made in her team. It can be said that Sri Lanka's youth team will face the strong team of India. Left -arm spinner Inoca Ranavira has returned to the team. Sri Lanka will have three more spinners in the form of Sugandhika Kumari, Inoshi Priyadarshini and Kavisha Dilhari whose role in the bowling department will be important.