England Women vs Ireland Women Cricket
Ireland Women Team vs England Women Team: The Ireland women’s team has done a great job by defeating the England women’s team in a T20 International match for the first time and created history. In the second T20I match, the Ireland women’s team defeated the England women’s team by 5 wickets. In this match, England players batted first and scored 169 runs. After which Orla Prendergast played a brilliant half-century innings for Ireland and played an important role in the team’s victory. She received the Player of the Match award for her excellent performance.
Orla Prendergrast played a strong innings of 80 runs
While chasing the target, the Ireland women’s team had a very bad start. When opener Amy Hunter returned to the pavilion after scoring just one run. After this, Gaby Lewis and Orla Prendergrast took the responsibility of scoring runs. But later Gaby Lewis was out after scoring 38 runs. Orla took the team to the brink of victory with her batting. She scored 80 runs in 51 balls, which included 13 fours. Leah Paul scored 27 runs. It was because of these batsmen that the Ireland women’s team chased the target in 19.5 overs. For England, Kate Cross and Maddie Villiers took two wickets each. The rest of the bowlers flopped badly and could not make much impact in the match.
Tammy Beaumont scored the most runs for England with 40 runs
No player from the England women’s team could score a half-century in the match. Bryony Smith (28 runs) and Tammy Beaumont (40 runs) gave the team a steady start. Both of them made a good start, but could not convert it into big innings. In the end, Paige Schofield (34 runs) and Georgia Adam (23 runs) tried to handle the innings, but did not succeed. As soon as these players were out, the batsmen who came to bat later could not bat steadily and England’s batting collapsed. England’s team could only score 169 runs in 20 overs.
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