In a an encounter of world cup match , Ireland and West Indies faced each other in Bristol . Ireland women defeated west indies in important match of worldcup . Match began with the first batting of West indies team . They set the target of 128 runs in 20 overs . Ireland team chased in 18.1 overs with the fall of four wickets .
West Indies first inning
while batting first the West Indies team , West indies opners came to bat ; Joseph and captain methews open to bat . Mathews could score 22 runs only in 25 balls . while joseph scored 8 runs . at number 3 campbelle also failed to create big score . she went out on four runs . It shows west indies team could not score big runs due to failure of batting collapse . apart from this , stafine taylor scored 16 runs , Deandra dottin 21 runs and Chinelle henry scored 27 runs . Henry was only player who played with 100+ strike rate . failure of west indies team in batting limited their energy and squeezed batting line up . 128 runs is not a big total .
Ireland women bowlers showed brillaint performance with ball . they limited west indies lady team in early powerplay . Maguire and Carra murray took 2-2 wickets . Orla prendergast , arlene kelle and jene maguire took 1-1 wickets . overall ireland bowlers dominated with ball .
Second Inning
Ireland team sent their opners with great hope . Amy hunter and gaby lewis opened inning for Ireland . hunter scored 28 runs while captain lewis scored only 9 runs . 28 runs by hunter set the foundation for chasing 128 runs. lewis went out on 9 when team score was 26 . while hunter out on 28 runs when team score was 88 . it set the stage for next batsmen to chase down target easily . After hunter and lewis , orla prendergast played finning of 63 runs in 44 balls . Inning of prendergast added power to ireland team score . She went out when team was near to chasing target . after it , Leauh paul and louise little scored 4-4 runs .
in west indies bowling context , munisar took 2 wickets . helly mathews took only 1 wicket . as compred to ireland team , west indies team performed badly . they could not stop ireland team early and could take them down .
Ireland women defeated west indies
Ireland women defeated west indies in world cup match . despite Ireland team victory against west Indies , they are still on number five in ranking . Ireland team has secured only one victory against west indies . They have lost remaining four matches . England is leading with 4 wins in 4 matches in Group 2