Ireland women’s team won the ODI series against Sri Lanka for the first time.
IRE W vs SL W Match Report: Sri Lanka’s women’s cricket team is currently on a tour of Ireland where they first played a 2-match T20 series which ended in a 1-1 draw. After this, the Sri Lankan women’s team has now lost 2-0 in the 3-match ODI series. The Ireland women’s team won the second match of this series by 15 runs and took an unassailable lead in the series by 2-0. This is also the Ireland women’s team’s first series win against Sri Lanka in any format so far. In the second ODI match, the Ireland team batted first and scored 255 runs for the loss of 5 wickets, while the Sri Lankan team was able to reach a score of only 240 runs in 50 overs.
Harshita Samarawickrama’s century innings went in vain, did not get support from any other batsman
The Sri Lankan women’s team, which came out to chase the target of 256 runs, did not have a good start in the second ODI match in which they lost their first wicket at the score of 4. After this, a partnership of 42 runs was seen for the second wicket between captain Chamari Atapattu and Harshita Samarawickrama. Atapattu returned to the pavilion after playing an innings of 22 runs in this match. From here Harshita, along with Kavisha Dilhara, took the innings forward and took the score to 172 runs. With the break of this partnership, the Ireland women’s team got a chance to come back. Harshita was out after playing a brilliant innings of 105 runs in this match, while she could not save her team from a defeat of 15 runs. In bowling for the Ireland team, Arlene Kelly took 3 wickets while Jane Maguire took 2 wickets.
Leah Paul and Rebecca Stokell played brilliant half-century innings
If we talk about the batting performance of the Ireland women’s team in this match, their start was also not good in which they also lost their first wicket at a score of 10. The team had lost 4 wickets till the score of 134. From here, Leah Paul handled the innings from one end in which she got the support of Rebecca Stokell and there was a partnership of more than 100 runs between the two for the fifth wicket. On the basis of this, the Irish team was able to reach a score of 255 runs in 50 overs. While Leah Paul played an innings of 81 runs, Rebecca Stokell scored an unbeaten 53 runs while Amy Hunter also played an important innings of 66 runs.
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