{"id":83602,"date":"2025-08-21T22:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/83602\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T22:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:19:14","slug":"womens-t20-world-cup-gaby-lewis-hits-66-as-ireland-beat-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/83602\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s T20 World Cup: Gaby Lewis hits 66 as Ireland beat Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gaby Lewis hit 66 not out as Ireland beat the Netherlands in their second Women’s T20 World Cup European Qualifier game in Rotterdam.<\/p>\n

Following Wednesday’s victory against Germany<\/a>, Ireland’s second win leaves them in a healthy position as they bid for a top-two finish in the four-team round robin, which will secure a place in the Global Qualifier in Nepal.<\/p>\n

The Netherlands won the toss and opted to bat with Phebe Molkenboer and Heather Siegers both out for 27 – Arlene Kelly dismissing Molkenboer lbw, while Siegers was run out.<\/p>\n

Laura Delany took the wickets of Dutch captain Babette De Leede and Robine Rijke, while Jane Maguire removed Myrthe van den Raad on 10.<\/p>\n

However, the hosts rallied with Frederique Overdijk and Iris Zwilling posting 25 and 12 respectively to set Ireland a target of 138.<\/p>\n

Ireland made a strong start to their reply with Lewis and Amy Hunter finding the boundary before Hunter was bowled by Caroline de Lange on 21.<\/p>\n

Orla Prendergast chipped in with 28, which included the only six of the match, before being caught by Babette de Leede off the bowing of Iris Zwilling.<\/p>\n

Captain Lewis continued to pepper the boundary – finishing with 11 fours – while Leah Paul’s 17 helped Ireland pass the Dutch tally with four balls to space.<\/p>\n

Ireland are next in action on Saturday when they take on Italy (10:00 BST) in Rotterdam before the second phase of games against their group opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gaby Lewis hit 66 not out as Ireland beat the Netherlands in their second Women’s T20 World Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-83602","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\/83602","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=83602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}