Sri Lanka beat Ireland by 10 wickets in their opening Group A match of the ICC Women’s Emerging Nations Trophy at Ajman on Thursday, chasing down a small target without losing a wicket.
Sri Lanka bowled first at the Karwan Sports Club Cricket Ground and restricted Ireland to 105 for nine in their 20 overs, the Daily Mirror reported.
The collapse
Ireland were well placed at 84 for three before losing six wickets for 18 runs. Sathya Sandeepani and Kaveesha Dilhari took three wickets each.
The chase
Sri Lanka’s openers ended it in 13 overs. Vishmi Gunaratne and Hasini Perera both finished unbeaten on 53, sharing an unbroken opening stand of 110.
A figure to treat with care
The Daily Mirror’s filing describes the unbroken opening partnership as worth 110 runs while giving Sri Lanka’s final total as “106 without loss” in the same sentence. The two cannot both be the team score: 106 is the target Sri Lanka were chasing — Ireland’s 105 plus one — and a 110-run partnership puts the completed total at 110 for no wicket.
This report uses 110 for no wicket, which is the figure consistent with the stated partnership and with the independent match coverage this desk checked. The discrepancy is noted rather than silently corrected.
Elsewhere in Group A
The Daily Mirror reports three other results from the same day: Scotland beat Papua New Guinea by seven wickets, Pakistan beat Bangladesh by eight wickets, and the Netherlands beat Thailand by five wickets.
Not reported
The filing gives no bowling figures beyond the wicket counts, no fall of wickets, no individual Irish scores, and no overs breakdown for the chase. It does not name the captains or say what the toss decision was.
On sourcing: this report rests on a single verified source. ESPNcricinfo, the one cricket-specific outlet in this desk’s verified set, returned HTTP 403 on both its hostnames at the time of writing — the third consecutive cycle it has been unreachable. The scoreline above was cross-checked against the tournament organiser’s own match coverage and wire reports, none of which are verified domains for this desk’s purposes and so are not cited as sources.
