Shashikala leads Lanka to victory
Chinthana WASALA in Dambulla
Skipper Shashikala Siriwardena with a brilliant knock of 43 helped
Sri Lanka level Series with West Indies women after defeating them in
the second ODI of the five match series at the Rangiri Dambulla
International Cricket Stadium yesterday.
Siriwardena’s included six boundaries which came in 69 deliveries.
Sri Lankan women looked much confident on their batting yesterday than
in the first game.
West Indies women got off to a good start in yesterday’s gamei
Stefanie Taylor and Merissa Aguilera posted a 62 run partnership for the
first wicket. The new combination seemed to be working well for the
Windies as Deandra Dottin who was not so successful in the first match,
was dropped down in the batting line up.
Taylor hit five boundaries before she was out for 33 runs. The Lankan
skipper Shashikala Siriwardena caught her at the covers off a delivery
from Eshani lokusuriya.
Soon Aguilera departed being lbw for Lokusuriya for 27. After that,
no big scores were recorded except for the 30 run knock by Juliana Nero.
The wickets fell at regular intervals and Stacy Ann King who top scored
in the previous match, was out for eight as wicketkeeper Manodara caught
her off the bowling of Sripali Weerakkody.
Windies skipper Nadine George departed for seven as Polgampola caught
her off a delivery from Abeywickrama.
Nero was the fifth victim when Manodara took her catch. The wicket
belonged to Suwini de Alwis.
The others did not go for good scores and wickets kept on falling and
the Windies ended up with 169, a better score than their first match,
for nine wickets.
Sripali Weerakkody, Eshani Lokusuriya, Shashikala Siriwardena and
Suwini de Alwis bagged two wickets each while Sanduni Abeywickrama hd
one wicket under belt.
Lankans lost one of their openers, Chamari Polgampola who was the top
scorer for Sri Lanka in the first match, when she departed without
scoring bowled by Kirbyina Alexander. After that Hiruka Fernando was out
for 13, bowled by Danielle Small.
From there onwards the Lankan batswomen looked stable and was going
on well with Dedunu Silva and Sanduni Abeywickrama.
They put on a 25 run partnership before Dedunu got out, caught by
Nero and off Alexander. Sanduni Abeywickrama was the fourth to go. She
was run out for 18. Eshani Kaushalya departed for 16, bowled by Taylor.
Chandi Wickramasinghe joined the skipper and helped her to swell the
total to 144.
She was lbw to Fletcher for 14, Senevirathna joined in but did not
last long and was bowled by Fletcher for just one.
Shashikala Siriwardena who top scored in the match with 43lost her
wicket to Mohommed when the scoreboar read at 152. De Alwis and Monodara
carried on with the good work to win the match with Monodara scoring the
winning run with only four deliveries remaining.
WEST INDIES
S. Taylor c Srirwardena b Lokusuriya 33
M. Aguilera lbw Lokusuriya 27
J.Neroct Manodara b Alwis 30
S.A. King c Manodara b Weerakkdy 8
N. George c Polgampola b Abeywickrama 7
D. Dottin c. Senevirathne b Alwis 5
C. Taitt c. Polgampola b Siriwardena 16
K. Alexander c c. Polgampola b Weerakkody 4
D.Small st. Manodara b Siriwardena 13
A. Mohommed not out 9
A. Fletcher not out 5
EXTRAS: (b 2, w 10) 12
TOTAL:for 9 wickets 169
Fall wickets: 1-62, 2-68, 3-89, 4-114, 5-115, 6-124, 7-135, 8-155 , 9-156
BOWLING: S. Weerakkody 10-2-25-2, C. Senevirathne 2-0-17-0, C. Polgampola 2-0-13-0,
C. wickramasinghe 8-2-21-0, E. Lokusuriya 6-0-20-2, S. Siriwardena 7-0-28-2, S. De Alwis 7-0-20-2, S.Abeywickrama 7-0-23-1
SRI LANKA INNINGS
D. Silva c Nero B Tatitt 37
C. Polgampola b Alexander 0
H. Fernando b Small 13
S. Abeywickrama run out 18
S. Siriwardena c Small b Mohommed 43
E. Kaushalya b Taylor 16
C. Wickramasinghe lbw b Fletcher 14
C. Senevirathne b Fletcher 1
S. De alwis not out 13
D. Manodara not out 5
EXTRAS: nb 1, b 2, w 7 10
TOTAL: for 8 wickets 170
Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-37, 3-62, 4-87, 5-116, 6-142, 7-146, 8-152
BOWLING: D. Small 8.2-0-24-1, K. Alexander 3-0-14-1, C. Taitt 10-1-28-1, A. Fletcher 8-1-30-2, S. Taylor 10-1-41-1, A. Mohommed 10-1-31-1 |
