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Ireland women’s cricket team created history by defeating West Indies by 6 wickets in the match played on Saturday. This is the first victory of the Ireland women’s team in the T20 World Cup, although the team was already out of the semi-final race, but this first victory was special. Just a day before, the Irish men’s team had defeated the Indian cricket team badly, that too was a historic moment because Ireland had never been able to win against India before.
When the Ireland men’s team defeated Team India, all the players of the Ireland women’s team were watching the match sitting together. Its video went quite viral on social media. That match must have inspired the women players that no matter how big the team is in front, the match can be won by playing good cricket.
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Ireland won the toss and decided to bowl first and restricted West Indies to 128 runs. No West Indies batsman could score well, Chinle Henry scored 27 runs which was the highest score of this innings.
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Chasing the target, Orla Prendergast played a match-winning inning of 63 runs in 44 balls, she hit 2 sixes and 8 fours. Ireland women’s team registered a historic victory by achieving the target in 18.1 overs.
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West Indies reached semi-finals
However, despite this shameful defeat, the West Indies women’s cricket team managed to reach the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup. Apart from West Indies, England qualified for the semi-finals from Group B, the team won all its five matches and got 10 points.
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West Indies and Sri Lanka had 6-6 points, both their net run rate was in minus but due to better net run rate than Sri Lanka’s net run rate (-0.725), West Indies (-0.147) qualified for the semi-finals.