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06/26 16:27 CDT Sri Lanka keep alive Women's T20 World Cup semifinals hopes
after beating Scotland
Sri Lanka keep alive Women's T20 World Cup semifinals hopes after beating
Scotland
MANCHESTER, England (AP) --- Sri Lanka kept alive slim hopes of making the
Women's Twenty20 World Cup semifinals for the first time after a dramatic
last-over win over Scotland at Old Trafford on Friday.
Sri Lanka chased down the 152 target on the penultimate ball and won by three
wickets.
Scotland medium-pacer Rachel Slater bowled the last over, trying to prevent Sri
Lanka from scoring seven runs. She conceded singles off the first three
deliveries then pulled up and collapsed to the ground with a suspected knee
injury. Slater eventually left the field in tears, Priyanaz Chatterji stepped
up, conceded a single but then the winning boundary to tailender Sugandika
Kumari.
Sri Lanka needed its best-ever third win in one World Cup to be by a bigger
margin, inside 10.3 overs, but going the distance barely improved its net run
rate and the West Indies can clinch the second and last semifinal spot in their
group by cruising against winless Ireland on Saturday.
Scotland, at its second T20 World Cup, has finished fifth in the group but
sought fourth place and a direct spot into the 2028 T20 World Cup in Pakistan.
But only Sarah Bryce, in after her sister and captain Kathryn fell at 66-2 in
the 10th over, made the Sri Lankans sweat with an unbeaten 33-ball 47 and a
last-ball boundary for a 151-6 total.
Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu, appearing in her 10th T20 World Cup,
exploded with a 16-ball 33 but after her exit at 57-2 in the sixth over her
teammates slowed and crawled over the finish line at 154-7.
On Saturday, there's also Netherlands vs. Pakistan, and semifinal-bound England
vs. defending champion New Zealand.
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