Quote from: noormcs5 on Today at 06:10:27 AM

Quote from: Swordsoffreedom on Today at 04:44:44 AM

We are slowly seeing the improvement of the Ireland women's team. Although we consider Sri Lanka Women's team as favorites in this series, Ireland Women's team managed to win both the matches. Sri Lanka Women won the first T20 match. However, the Sri Lanka women's team lost three consecutive matches after that. The T20 series was drawn but the ODI series was defeated by Sri Lanka Women's team.

I would not call this a slow improvement in the Ireland team but infarct there performance and improvement is too much impressive in this series.
Winning two matches in a row in the ODI series is a big achievement for them.

The Ireland women's team has improved a lot. We have seen Ireland women's players perform well in almost every match except the matches against Scotland in the last few matches. Team players are hardworking. And the team is able to perform consistently well. Ireland women's players performed well against Sri Lanka in both T20 and ODI formats. A win in the third match against Sri Lanka would be a huge achievement for the Ireland Women's team.

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In yesterday match, i though Sri Lanka may win the match when Harshitha Samarawickrama was batting and Sri Lanka team were cruising at one time at 172 runs with only 3 wickets down. We then saw some match winning bowling by Arlene Kelly who took three wickets and Jane Maguire who took 2 wickets.
Ireland go 2-0 up despite Harshitha Samarawickrama century
Srilanka had no clue as how they lost this match when they did good bowling and Samarawickrama making a century. It was the late batting collapse that made Ireland win this match and the series too.

I agree with you that after Harshitha Samarawickrama's century Sri Lanka women's team could not win the match, it was surprising. The target was not too big. Moreover, due to the responsible batting of Harshitha Samarawickrama and Kavisha Dilhari, the match was completely under the control of Sri Lanka Women's team. Sri Lanka's collection at the end of 34 overs. Hill 172/3. But then Sri Lanka women started losing wickets quickly. If a lower order batsman could have batted with some responsibility, Sri Lanka Women would have won this match and leveled the series at 1-1.