The Lankan team beats the Bangladeshi side to preserve their World Cup tournament hopes ongoing

ICC Women's World Cup, Mumbai

Sri Lanka 202 (48.4 overs): Perera 85 (99); Shorna 3-27

The Bangladeshi team 195-9 (50 overs): Joty 77 (98); Chamari Athapaththu 4-42

Sri Lanka win by seven runs margin

The Lankan cricket team secured four crucial dismissals in the last innings segment to seal a nail-biting victory over their opponents and maintain their slim hopes of qualifying for the tournament knockout stage alive.

Needing a modest total of 203 on a favorable wicket in Navi Mumbai, the Bangladeshi team needed nine more runs from the final six bowls.

Nevertheless, Sri Lanka captain Athapaththu claimed three important dismissals in four balls and Nilakshi de Silva dismissed via run-out Nahida to bring about a exciting win for the Lankan team.

The win – the Lankan team's initial of the competition after three unsuccessful matches and two washed-out matches against the Australian team and the Kiwi side – elevates them tied on four points with India and New Zealand, who confront each other on the coming Thursday.

The Bangladeshi team, in contrast, experienced a fifth straight setback since securing victory in their first match against the Pakistani team and have been removed from contention.

Even though Bangladesh made the perfect start, with Marufa Akter striking with the opening bowl of the game to dismiss Vishmi Gunaratne, they were rightfully punished for a subpar fielding display.

They offered reprieves to Hasini Perera, who was spilled three times, and the Lankan captain.

Even though the Sri Lankan skipper failed to take advantage, sent back leg before wicket for 46 one ball after being missed by Rabeya Khan, Hasini Perera made Bangladesh regret it.

She registered a debut international fifty, scoring 85 from 99 bowls and sharing an significant 74-run partnership fifth-wicket collaboration with Nilakshi de Silva.

The Bangladeshi team, guided by Shorna Akter's three wickets for 27 runs, dragged themselves back to the game, with Nilakshi's wicket in the 34th innings segment triggering a Lankan downfall from 174 with four wickets down to 202 all out.

During their chase, the Lankan team's starting bowlers Madara and Udeshika Prabodhani restricted Bangladesh to 23 with one wicket down in a lacklustre powerplay and they were afterwards reduced to 44 with three wickets lost.

Sharmin and Joty reconstructed their innings, putting on 82 for the fourth wicket before Sharmin left the field injured for a determined 64 in the 36th bowling phase.

It was leaning toward Bangladesh approaching the remaining two bowling phases, with only 12 runs necessary.

Nevertheless, Dasanayaka removed Ritu and allowed just three scoring runs before the captain's dramatic spell, with Rabeya, Nahida, skipper Joty and Marufa all removed as Sri Lanka seized the win at the final moment.

In the end, it was a match of composure. The highly experienced Lankan captain, who ushered away a few of fellow players as she set herself to deliver the final over, maintained her nerve. The opposition failed to.

There will be plenty of inquiries about Bangladesh's batting performance. They might well have been needing 270 to 280 with the Lankan team appearing comfortable on 159 for four in the 30th innings segment, but in contrast the chase was significantly less.

Nevertheless, Bangladesh displayed insufficient aggression from the very beginning, accumulating runs at under 2.5 runs per over during the initial phase, experiencing a top-order collapse, and ultimately making themselves excessive to achieve.

But no matter what problems there are with their batting lineup, if they had accepted their opportunities in the field, that 203 total objective would have been significantly smaller.

It required them three tries to end the 72-run second-wicket, with wicketkeeper Nigar Sultana failing to grab a tough catch as wicketkeeper to dismiss Hasini Perera on 23 runs before the captain got a reprieve from a caught and bowled chance possibility against Rabeya Khan.

Perera was spilled again on her score of 55 and 63, the latter chance traveling directly to Jhilik at cover position, before eventually being trapped leg before wicket by Shorna Akter as she attempted to accelerate the scoring with batting partners getting out around her.

Later in the innings, there was furthermore a stumping chance missed and a run-out opportunity lost, even though the run-out chance was a somewhat unlucky, with Jhilik substituting with the keeping duties due to an physical problem to Joty.

Regrettably for the team, such fielding woes are not at all a isolated incident. They've failed to catch 14 catches from a available 27 chances at this competition and boast the poorest fielding effectiveness (less than 50%) of the participating teams.

They are a side who are typically progressing in the proper way – they are competing in just their second ODI World Cup ultimately – but inadequate fielding performance is a obvious problem which requires attention.