A forgettable World Cup for Sri Lanka. They won the Asia Cup earlier this year but go home without registering a single win in this competition. New Zealand, on the other hand, remain third on the points table as their NRR is inferior to India's. While India face a tough encounter against the defending champions, NZ's final match will be against Pakistan. Devine and Co. will know the exact equation to qualify for the semis. On that note, it's curtains down on this match. There's one more game lined up - Bangladesh vs South Africa in Dubai. Switch tabs to follow the action. See you there...
Sophie Devine: Really pleased. Disappointing in our last match. We didn't bowl as well as we know we can. To restrict Sri Lanka and stay in the contest for as long as we did and to be able to chase it down ... Plimmer was outstanding today, super proud of her, really happy for her today. We actually didn't (go hard to improve NRR). We wanted to win the game by 17th-18th over. We'll know exactly where we stand when we face Pakistan and what's going to be required. We'll celebrate tonight's win and then go back to the dressing room. (On Plimmer) She's copped a few bit of criticisms. She had a great knock against Australia in Australia. She has a bright future.
Chamari Athapaththu: We didn't play our best cricket throughout this tournament. Our batting unit improved a bit but we needed another 20-25 runs. The bowlers did their best, but not enough for the win. I told them to play fearless and positive cricket. We had nothing to lose. We have played good cricket over the last 12 months. Expectations is very high, there is some kind of pressure. As cricketers, we have to take one game at a time. We lost our first game against Pakistan and our mindset went down. We kept trying but it didn't work.
Georgia Plimmer | Player of the Match: We talked a lot as a group about how we want to about the powerplay in these conditions, being able to be out there with someone like Suzie (Bates) and talk through my options, it really goes a long way and being able to just be aggressive and play my brand, sometimes it might not come off but if I can offer my team a good start, I will be happy. Just wanted to back my skills lately, had good conversations with the coaches and all the players in the team to try and go out there and play my brand. It is a pretty special group that we got, we love each other outside cricket as well. Just the group is very clear on how we want to play and attack. World Cups don't come around all the time, so we are trying to put our best foot forward. We had a bit of hard six months, so to come here and get a few wins under our belt gives loads of confidence.
16:52 Local Time, 12:52 GMT, 18:22 IST: Clinical win
17.3
Sugandika Kumari to Devine, SIX, Devine finishes off in style!
17.2
Sugandika Kumari to Amelia Kerr, 1 run, a drag down, pulled to long leg
17.1
Sugandika Kumari to Devine, 1 run, jogs down and heaves to long-on off the inside part of the bat
Sugandika Kumari [3.0-0-15-0] is back into the attack
16.6
Sachini Nisansala to Devine, 3 runs, sees the batter step out of her crease and Nisansala shortens her length. Devine hurriedly pulls and gets an inside edge that eludes the stumps and beats the keeper to her left
16.5
Sachini Nisansala to Amelia Kerr, 1 run, dances down the pitch to turn this length ball to square leg
16.4
Sachini Nisansala to Amelia Kerr, 2 runs, shimmies down and batters to long-off. A fumble allows Kerr to come back for the second
16.3
Sachini Nisansala to Amelia Kerr, no run, shimmies down, moves leg-side and drives to extra cover
16.2
Sachini Nisansala to Devine, 1 run, comes down the track, gets too close to the pitch of the ball and hence doesn't
16.1
Sachini Nisansala to Devine, no run, drifting in on leg, clipped to midwicket after coming down the track