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06/27 12:14 CDT Ireland snap 12-year Women's T20 World Cup losing run and stun
West Indies
Ireland snap 12-year Women's T20 World Cup losing run and stun West Indies
BRISTOL, England (AP) --- Ireland has finally won in the Women's Twenty20 World
Cup.
The Irish ended a 0-21 losing streak across five tournaments going back 12
years when they defeated the West Indies by six wickets with 11 balls remaining
on Saturday.
The West Indies would have qualified for the semifinals if it had won. Instead,
the defeat gave a lifeline to defending champion New Zealand.
The Kiwis will progress if they beat England later Saturday. If semifinal-bound
England wins, the West Indies go on instead.
Ireland go home no longer burdened by the streak and adding to an historic
weekend in which the men defeated India for the first time in a T20 in Belfast.
The women limited the West Indies to 128-7 and Orla Prendergast led the chase
with a 44-ball 63. She was caught 21 runs from victory but Rebecca Stokell and
Louise Little finished it off with Little hitting the winning boundary over
mid-on for 129-4.
"(Winning) just means so much," Prendergast said. "We have had the belief
throughout but it had not come together just yet. Just so much relief to have
that win and so much happiness."
The West Indies struggled to get much going on a sticky pitch, especially
against Irish bowlers Cara Murray and Aimee Maguire.
Captain Hayley Matthews and Deandra Dottin hit a slow 22 and 21 and Chinelle
Henry added a quickfire unbeaten 27 at the end. Irish misfields gave the West
Indies at least three boundaries.
Prendergast joined opener Amy Hunter in the fifth over and passed her score by
the ninth. Hunter fed Prendergast the strike and they added 62 together.
Prendergast reached her second fifty of this World Cup off 36 balls and was
given out on 56 but overturned that on review. She was caught at deep square
leg in the 16th over but had done enough.
In a matchup of winless teams, Pakistan beat the Netherlands by 37 runs.
The Dutch, on debut, targeted this one for a win and did well to restrict
Pakistan to 126-6. Only opener Gull Feroza prevented a much lower score.
Dropped on 10, Feroza used the life brilliantly to carry her bat to her first
T20 World Cup fifty and an unbeaten 63 off 52 balls including nine boundaries.
She featured in a 79-run stand with Ayesha Zafar, who scored 32.
Iris Zwilling (2-19), Heather Siegers (1-28) and Hannah Landheer (1-19) led the
Dutch bowling but Pakistan was even better to dismiss the Netherlands for 89 in
18 overs.
Heather Siegers gave the Dutch chase a great launch but after the powerplay the
brakes were applied by Nashra Sandhu, Tuba Hassan and Zafar, who earned a T20
career-best 3-13.
With the result secure, Pakistan captain Fatima Sana took three wickets --- all
bowled --- in the 18th and last over, including Dutch top-scorer and captain
Babette de Leede on 30.
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