Women’s T20 World Cup, Group 2, Southampton <\/p>\n
New Zealand 140-6 (20 overs): Sharp 36; Murray 2-26, Prendergast 2-26<\/p>\n
Ireland 136-4 (20 overs): Prendergast 59, Lewis 58; M Kerr 2-23<\/p>\n
New Zealand won by four runs <\/p>\n
Scorecard<\/a>. Tables<\/a>.<\/p>\n New Zealand are still in the mix for a semi-finals spot at the T20 World Cup after a thrilling four-run win over Ireland in Southampton.<\/p>\n It was a must-win encounter for both sides after losing their opening two matches and this defeat effectively ends Ireland’s hopes of progressing from the group stage. <\/p>\n A fine bowling display from Ireland restricted the defending champions to 140-6 from their 20 overs.<\/p>\n Irish skipper Gaby Lewis (58) and Orla Prendergast (59) put on a superb 110-run second-wicket partnership to give Ireland a chance of securing a first World Cup win at the 20th attempt.<\/p>\n Ireland fell just short – a six was required off the final ball from Suzie Bates but Louise Little could only manage a single. <\/p>\n “It’s hard to reflect straight away. There’s a lot of emotion. We wanted that first win so badly,” said Ireland captain Gaby Lewis. <\/p>\n “As a team, we did so much right. It’s hard to sum up right now.”<\/p>\n New Zealand were dealt a blow before the game when star all-rounder Sophie Devine starting vomiting when she arrived at the ground and was replaced by Bates. <\/p>\n They climb to fourth in Group 2 but may need to win their final two games and have other results go their way to progress. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women’s T20 World Cup, Group 2, Southampton New Zealand 140-6 (20 overs): Sharp 36; Murray 2-26, Prendergast 2-26…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-647996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}