High on confidence after three wins on the trot, India would look to continue their unbeaten streak and take another step towards a semifinal berth when they face a lowly Sri lanka in the ICC Women's World Cup, here on Wednesday.
The Indians, enjoying good run, would certainly start as overwhelming favourites against Sri lanka, who have looked below-par in the tournament so far with three defeats from as many matches. If there's anything called momentum in cricket, it is with the Indian team at the moment.
"We definitely will look into the fact that we don't lose wickets back-to-back, " Indian skipper Mithali Raj said. "Because that puts a lot of pressure on the incoming batters as well as the team. We need to work on our partnerships as batters. In terms of bowling, the spinners have been doing well, (against Pakistan) the pacers looked better than the last two games so it depends which wicket we play on against Sri lanka. If it's a fresh wicket, then we have different plans for it."
Having comprehensively won last four ODI series — whitewashing Sri lanka and the West Indies at home before beating South Africa in the Finals of the World Cup qualifier as well as the quadrangular series — besides three wins in the round robin stage of the ongoing event, the Indian women would not want to lose the rhythm at any cost.
Sri lanka are yet to taste victory. They lost to New Zealand by nine wickets in the opener before being handed a eight-wicket thrashing by Australia and another seven-wicket defeat by England.