{"id":521636,"date":"2026-06-27T19:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/521636\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T19:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:20:08","slug":"ireland-shock-west-indies-to-secure-first-womens-t20-world-cup-win-at-22nd-time-of-asking-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/521636\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland shock West Indies to secure first Women\u2019s T20 World Cup win at 22nd time of asking \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women\u2019s World T20; West Indies 128-7 (20 ovs) (C Henry 27no; C Murray 2-13, A Maguire 2-22) lost to Ireland 129-4 (18.1 ovs) (O Prendergast 63, A Hunter 28) by 6 wkts<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland claimed a first victory in a Women\u2019s T20 World Cup at the 22nd attempt as Orla Prendergast hit a fine half-century to dent the West Indies\u2019 hopes of making the semi-finals with a six-wicket win in Bristol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Chinelle Henry\u2019s unbeaten 27 saw West Indies post 128 for seven as Aimee Maguire and Cara Murray both finished with two wickets each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland started their chase solidly, with opener Amy Hunter and Prendergast taking them to 88 for one before Hunter was out for 28 in the 13th over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Prendergast holed out on 63 before Rebecca Stokell\u2019s unbeaten 16 got Ireland over the line with 11 balls to spare to end the tournament on a high note after four previous defeats. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s World T20; West Indies 128-7 (20 ovs) (C Henry 27no; C Murray 2-13, A Maguire 2-22) lost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8755,8756,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-521636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}