{"id":17175,"date":"2025-07-23T23:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/17175\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T23:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:39:11","slug":"womens-t20-series-ireland-complete-clean-sweep-against-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/17175\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s T20 series: Ireland complete clean sweep against Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland Women completed a 3-0 series sweep against Zimbabwe with a 51-run win at Sydney Parade in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c77v2jj3rjxo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">secured the series with 65 runs to spare on Tuesday<\/a> and finished in style after posting 180.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Winning the toss, Ireland opted to bat with Amy Hunter and Rebecca Stokell building a strong partnership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Player of the match Hunter reached 59 before being caught and bowled by Beloved Biza, while Stokell was run out on 45.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Louise Little contributed 22, while Orla Prendergast (24) and Laura Delany (19) finished the innings not out to set the tourists a target of 180.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zimbabwe got their innings off to a slow start with Kelis Ndlovu out for nine, and her opening partner Chiedza Dhururu following soon after for 12 &#8211; both caught by Stokell after being bowled by Ava Canning and Sophie MacMahon respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chipo Mugeri-Tiripano (39) and Biza (25) offered resistance for the visitors, but both were caught by Prendergast with Canning taking her second wicket and Cara Murray dismissing Biza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MacMahon would also claim a second wicket as Prendergast caught Modester Mupachikwa on 17 as Ireland secured the series sweep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland Women completed a 3-0 series sweep against Zimbabwe with a 51-run win at Sydney Parade in Dublin.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-17175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}