Women’s T20 World Cup, Group 2, Bristol <\/p>\n
Ireland 130-5 (20 overs): Lewis 59, Tector 28*; de Silva 1-12<\/p>\n
Sri Lanka 134-1 (15.3 overs): Athapaththu 106*, Dulani 20; Prendergast 1-22 <\/p>\n
Sri Lanka won by nine wickets<\/p>\n
Scorecard<\/a>. Tables<\/a>.<\/p>\n Chamari Athapaththu hit a superb unbeaten 106 as Sri Lanka cruised to a nine-wicket win against Ireland to keep their World Cup semi-final hopes alive. <\/p>\n Ireland were reduced to 18-3 in sun-drenched Bristol before skipper Gaby Lewis (59) and Leah Paul (20) put on a 66-run partnership to help their side to a total of 130-5.<\/p>\n Sri Lanka captain Athapaththu raced to her best World Cup score – and the highest so far in the tournament – from just 61 balls, as victory was secured on 134-1 with 4.3 overs to spare.<\/p>\n The Lions, who move up to four points, need to beat Scotland on Friday and hope results elsewhere go their way to secure a top-two spot in Group 2 and a place in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n Ireland have now lost all 21 of their World Cup games and the bottom side finish their campaign against West Indies on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women’s T20 World Cup, Group 2, Bristol Ireland 130-5 (20 overs): Lewis 59, Tector 28*; de Silva 1-12…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-654443","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\/654443","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=654443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}