Sri Lanka, Dec. 24 -- The Indian chase defined the concept of a walk in the park, with Shafali Verma's scintillating unbeaten 69 off 34 balls anchoring a 129-run pursuit that did the job with 49 balls to spare.

Be it the slow burn of the first T20I or the swift mercy of the second, the outcome remained the same, with a seven-wicket win for India at the ACA-VDCA Stadium in Visakhapatnam helping it take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series.

Perhaps more importantly, though, the evening marked a quiet redemption for Sree Charani.

After fumbling chances in the opener, she returned with surer hands, her two catches snuffing out a possible middle-order resistance. The first of those helped Vaishnavi Sharma-who made her debut in the previous f...