Orla Prendergast hit a fine half-century as Ireland dented the West Indies’ hopes of making the semi-finals of the Women\u2019s T20 World Cup with a six-wicket win in Bristol, their first at the competition.<\/p>\n
In their fifth appearance at this tournament, Ireland broke their duck with a maiden victory, chasing down a target of 129.<\/p>\n
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
Ireland \u2013 who had lost all of their previous four games \u2013 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
Prendergast holed out on 63 before Rebecca Stokell\u2019s unbeaten 16 got Ireland over the line with 11 balls to spare.<\/p>\n
The defeat left West Indies in second place ahead of Sri Lanka on net run rate, but their place in the last four was later confirmed after hosts England went on to comfortably beat New Zealand at the Oval.<\/p>\n
West Indies 128-7 (20 overs): Henry 27* (21); Murray 2-13<\/p>\n
Ireland 129-4 (18.1 overs): Prendergast 63 (44); Munisar 2-28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orla Prendergast hit a fine half-century as Ireland dented the West Indies’ hopes of making the semi-finals of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-522165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522165","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=522165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}