New Zealand gamers have fun after the dismissal of Sri Lanka’s Harshitha Samarawickrama in the course of the Group A T20women‘s World Cup cricket match.
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New Zealand stored their Women’s T20 World Cup hopes alive with a 102-run rout of Sri Lanka at Boland Park in Paarl on Sunday.
Suzie Bates and Amelia Kerr hit half-centuries because the White Ferns scored 162 for 3 on a sluggish pitch.
Sri Lanka might solely handle 60 in reply.
New Zealand moved into second place in Group One behind defending champions Australia, however might nonetheless be overtaken by hosts South Africa, who play Bangladesh on Tuesday.
Sri Lanka, who gained their first two matches, completed the group stage degree on factors with New Zealand however had been eradicated on web run price.
Ms. Bates adopted up her unbeaten 81 towards Bangladesh on Friday with 56, whereas Ms. Kerr hit 66.
Bernadine Bezuidenhout set the tone for New Zealand, hitting 32 off 20 balls in a gap partnership of 46 in 5.4 overs with Ms. Bates.
Ms. Kerr joined Bates and the pair added 110 for the second wicket earlier than Bates was stumped in the final over. Ms. Kerr was run out off the penultimate ball of the innings.
The New Zealand batters went for his or her photographs and ran laborious between wickets.
It was a efficiency that was in stark distinction to an earlier match on the identical pitch when neither West Indies nor Pakistan might obtain a scoring price of a run a ball.
Sri Lanka wilted below the stress. Bezuidenhout and Bates had been each dropped and there have been quite a few misfields.
Set to attain greater than eight runs an over, Sri Lanka’s probabilities evaporated quickly.
They misplaced three wickets in the six-over powerplay earlier than Amelia Kerr delivered a killer blow by trapping Sri Lanka captain and star participant Chamari Athapaththu for 19 in the eighth over.
New Zealand used six bowlers they usually all took wickets, with Lea Tahuhu and Amelia Kerr taking two every.
