{"id":764840,"date":"2026-06-28T01:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/764840\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T01:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:43:14","slug":"cricket-news-2026-t20-womens-victory-for-ireland-over-west-indies-england-defeat-champions-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/764840\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket News 2026: T20 women\u2019s victory for Ireland over West indies, England defeat champions New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ireland go home no longer burdened by its T20 World Cup<\/a> losing streak, snapping a 0-21 losing streak across five tournaments going back 12 years.<\/p>\n

The women limited the West Indies<\/a> to 7-128 and added to an historic 24 hours for Irish cricket after the men knocked off India for the first time in a T20 in Belfast.<\/p>\n

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Ireland breaks a losing streak of over 12 years. \u00a0Matthew Lewis<\/p>\n

Orla Prendergast led the chase with a 44-ball 63. She was caught 21 runs from victory but Rebecca Stokell and Louise Little finished it off with Little hitting the winning boundary over mid-on for 4-129 with 11 balls remaining.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Winning) just means so much,\u201d Prendergast said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have had the belief throughout but it had not come together just yet. Just so much relief to have that win and so much happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n

The West Indies struggled to get much going on a sticky pitch, especially against Irish bowlers Cara Murray and Aimee Maguire.<\/p>\n

Reigning champions New Zealand<\/a>\u2019s defence of the Women\u2019s T20 World Cup crown was also over after losing to England<\/a> by nine wickets at The Oval.<\/p>\n

The Kiwis lost three of their five group games. <\/p>\n

They received a surprising last-ditch lifeline to the semi-finals just hours earlier when Ireland defeated the West Indies in Bristol, but it wasn\u2019t enough. <\/p>\n

After New Zealand put up 6-163, England romped to 1-164 with 16 balls to spare on the back of Danni Wyatt-Hodge\u2019s unbeaten 89 in front of 21,018 spectators, a tournament record for a group match.<\/p>\n

Wyatt-Hodge flogged the New Zealand bowlers with her second fifty of the tournament beside her opening-night century.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s comfortably the event\u2019s leading run-scorer with 282 and smashed the single World Cup runs record of 259 set by Australia\u2019s Beth Mooney in 2020 with potentially two more games to play.<\/p>\n

The other two semi finalists will be decided on Sunday night AEST from Australia, South Africa and India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland go home no longer burdened by its T20 World Cup losing streak, snapping a 0-21 losing streak…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-764840","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\/764840","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=764840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}