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06/26 16:06 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 third win in five matches to be by a bigger margin, inside
15 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.
On Saturday, there's also Netherlands vs. Pakistan, and semifinal-bound England
vs. defending champion New Zealand.
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