{"id":81436,"date":"2025-08-21T01:13:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T01:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/81436\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T01:13:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T01:13:03","slug":"womens-t20-world-cup-ireland-begin-qualifying-campaign-with-commanding-win-over-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/81436\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup: Ireland begin qualifying campaign with commanding win over Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland cruised to a 10-wicket victory over Germany in the first match of their European T20 World Cup qualifiers in Rotterdam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Germany won the toss and elected to bat, but only Christina Gough with 28 reached double figures as Laura Delany led the Irish bowling attack with four wickets for just nine runs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Set a target of 63, Ireland openers Amy Hunter and Gaby Lewis made light work of clinching victory, doing so in just 7.3 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wicketkeeper Hunter scored 31 off 23 balls, while skipper Lewis managed 29 from 22 deliveries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The double round robin competition, which also includes Italy and the Netherlands, will see each team play six times and concludes on 27 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After beating Pakistan in a three-game series this month, Lloyd Tennant&#8217;s side, who are next in action against the Netherlands on Thursday (10:00 BST), are firm favourites to be one of the two who will advance through to the global qualifiers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those will be held in Nepal in January where the final four places for next summer&#8217;s T20 World Cup in England will be decided. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland cruised to a 10-wicket victory over Germany in the first match of their European T20 World Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-81436","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\/81436","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=81436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}