Sri Lanka girls have overwhelmed England for the primary time in T20 internationals, and executed so in convincing fashion led by skipper Chamari Athapaththu.
The vacationers’ captain smashed 55 in 31 balls as Sri Lanka chased down 105 at Chelmsford with eight wickets in hand, levelling the T20 sequence at 1-1.
Heather Knight’s crew had been introduced again right down to earth after a golden summer time with an all-round poor show on the County Ground the place solely Charlie Dean’s 34 down the order prevented a fair heavier loss.
England had been in peril of being out for lower than their lowest T20 rating, 87 all out in opposition to Australia in 2015, however scrambled to 104.
It was nonetheless not sufficient to disclaim Sri Lanka a maiden T20 win over England on the tenth time of asking with Athapaththu main from the entrance to arrange a winner-takes-all conflict at Derby on Wednesday.
England had swatted the Sri Lankan bowlers to all components of Hove on Thursday in a complete of 186 for 4 off 17 overs, however this show may haven’t been extra completely different.
Openers Danni Wyatt and Maia Bouchier departed through the powerplay and No.3 Alice Capsey holed out in between after rising annoyed at a succession of dot balls.
From 3-21 Knight and Amy Jones placed on 20 however Inoka Ranaweera dismissed each.
The hosts slumped to 6-48, then 8-66 earlier than Dean took them previous the century mark.
Sri Lanka misplaced opener Anushka Sanjeewani within the second over however Athapaththu smashed 21 off the subsequent over with Kate Cross hit throughout the bottom, together with an enormous pull for six.
Knight turned to Izzy Wong, however the seamer struggled and produced an eventful 10-ball over with an array of no-balls.
Sri Lanka ended the powerplay on 1-67 and cruised to victory with 40 balls to spare.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
