{"id":200566,"date":"2025-12-19T18:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/200566\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:30:12","slug":"irelands-south-african-tour-rounded-off-with-defeat-in-third-odi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/200566\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s South African tour rounded off with defeat in third ODI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Christina Coulter Reilly's dismissal sparked an Ireland collapse in South Africa. Photo by Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3209307.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Christina Coulter Reilly&#8217;s dismissal sparked an Ireland collapse in South Africa. Photo by Seb Daly\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Gaby Lewis saw her hopes of ending the South Africa tour on a high all but disappear in the space of seven balls in Johannesburg on Friday night as Ireland threw away a promising start to lose the final one-day international by six wickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Ireland captain did her best, winning the toss and following through with a 55-ball half-century, but from a promising 116-1 at the halfway stage of their innings, the Girls in Green subsided to a disappointing 205 all out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The recent World Cup finalists were not going to be troubled by such a paltry total and raced to victory in only 32.2 overs, with skipper Laura Wolvaardt reaching an unbeaten century with the winning single.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Aimee Maguire and Arlene Kelly shared the four wickets to fall while Christina Coulter Reilly proved her worth as deputy wicketkeeper with two catches and a stumping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Indeed, the turning point for Ireland and the match was the dismissal for 37 of Coulter Reilly, to end a second-wicket partnership of 99 with Lewis who departed two balls later for a top score of 64 from 80 balls, with a six and eight fours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">To make matters worse, former skipper Laura Delany fell for nought in the same over, and after Orla Prendergast and Leah Paul had repaired some of the damage the last five Ireland wickets fell for the addition of only 13 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">While the Girls in Green lost all five tour matches, the trip will be seen as beneficial with invaluable experience gained ahead of the T20 World Cup qualifiers that get underway in Nepal next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christina Coulter Reilly&#8217;s dismissal sparked an Ireland collapse in South Africa. 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