HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, CMC – One other inept batting effort from West Indies Girls condemned them to a heavy 160-run defeat and an embarrassing whitewash of their three-match One-Day Worldwide sequence towards Sri Lanka Girls right here Friday.
All the time up towards it as soon as the hosts racked up 275 for six from their 50 overs behind half-centuries from Chamari Athapaththu (91), Nilakshika Silva (63), and Anushka Sanjeewani (55), West Indies Girls collapsed timidly for 115 within the twenty fifth over to lose their third straight recreation by a large margin.
They misplaced the opening ODI by six wickets after posting solely 195 and succumbed within the second by 5 wickets after mustering a paltry 92.
Opener Chedean Nation scored 46 from 67 balls, whereas all-rounder Aaliyah Alleyne chipped in with a run-a-ball 27 at quantity six. Nonetheless, no different batter managed to move 20, as 22-year-old left-arm spinner Sachini Nisansala ripped aside the innings to complete with 5 for 28 and take the Participant-of-the-Match honors.
“Sri Lanka, taking part in at house, you realize; your’s a house benefit whenever you get to play in our nation,” stated stand-in captain Shemaine Campbelle.
“I feel they performed some good cricket, and some supporters have been there for them as nicely, so all in all, I feel they performed [a] good model of cricket, and you could give credit score to them.”
Captain Athapaththu was stellar on the prime of the order after her facet was despatched in, lashing ten fours and a brace of sixes off 106 balls and posting 93 for the primary wicket with Vishmi Gunaratne, whose 44 got here from 60 balls and included half-dozen fours.
West Indies Girls loved their finest interval when off-spinner Karishma Ramharack (2-46) struck twice rapidly as the house facet misplaced three wickets for six runs in 18 balls.
Stumbling on 99 for 3 within the twenty third, Sri Lanka Girls rebounded via a 57-run fourth wicket partnership between Athapaththu and Silva, the latter of whom then mixed with wicketkeeper Sanjeewani in a 117-run fifth wicket stand to deflate West Indies Girls.
Silva struck eight fours in a breezy 78 balls innings whereas the 34-year-old Sanjeewani blasted a half-dozen fours and a six in a terrific 46-ball cameo.
West Indies Girls then made a disastrous begin to their chase when Rashada Williams was caught on the wicket off veteran left-arm pacer Udeshika Prabodhani for one firstly of the fifth over, and Campbell was lbw to 21-year-old pacer Kawya Kavindi with out scoring within the subsequent over.
Slumping at 5 for 2, West Indies Girls have been pulled round by Nation, who struck seven fours to encourage a 57-run third wicket stand with former captain Stafanie Taylor (16).
Nonetheless, as soon as Taylor departed in the beginning of the twentieth – caught behind, reducing at off off-spinner Oshadi Ranasinghe (2-14) – the innings fell aside because the final eight wickets went down for under 53 runs.
Nation was ultimately fourth out within the twenty third over, bowled driving down the flawed line at off-spinner Athapaththu.
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