The Lankan team beats the Bangladeshi side to maintain their tournament hopes alive

Women's Cricket World Cup, Navi Mumbai

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

Bangladesh 195-9 (50 overs): Joty 77 (98); Athapaththu 4-42

Sri Lanka emerge victorious by seven runs margin

Sri Lanka claimed four wickets in the last over to achieve a nail-biting triumph over Bangladesh and maintain their narrow hopes of making it for the World Cup semi-finals ongoing.

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

Nevertheless, Lankan skipper Chamari Athapaththu claimed three wickets in four balls and de Silva ran out Nahida Akter to bring about a exciting victory for Sri Lanka.

The triumph – Sri Lanka's first of the World Cup after three defeats and two abandoned games against Australia and the Kiwi side – pushes them tied on four match points with the Indian team and the New Zealand side, who confront each other on Thursday.

The Bangladeshi team, in contrast, experienced a fifth successive loss since winning their tournament opener against the Pakistani team and have been eliminated.

While the Bangladeshi side got off to the perfect start, with Marufa taking a wicket with the opening bowl of the game to remove Vishmi Gunaratne, they were rightfully made to pay for a subpar fielding display.

They offered reprieves to Hasini Perera, who was dropped on three occasions, and Athapaththu.

While the Sri Lankan skipper failed to take advantage, dismissed leg before wicket for 46 a single bowl after being dropped by Rabeya Khan, Hasini Perera forced Bangladesh suffer.

She scored a first international fifty, making 85 from 99 bowls and contributing to an significant 74-run fifth-wicket association with Nilakshi de Silva.

The Bangladeshi team, guided by Shorna Akter's 3-27, fought themselves back in the match, with Nilakshi's dismissal in the 34th over initiating a Lankan downfall from 174 for four to 202 total.

While batting second, the Lankan team's starting bowlers Madara and Udeshika Prabodhani restricted Bangladesh to 23 with one wicket down in a disappointing powerplay and they were later diminished to 44 with three wickets lost.

Sharmin and Joty restored their batting effort, contributing 82 runs for the fourth wicket collaboration before Sharmin withdrew due to injury for a resolute 64 in the 36th innings segment.

It was in favor of Bangladesh entering the final two bowling phases, with merely 12 additional runs needed.

Yet, Dasanayaka removed Ritu Moni and conceded only three runs before the captain's chaos, with Rabeya Khan, Nahida Akter, captain Joty and Marufa all sent back as Sri Lanka seized the win at the final moment.

Ultimately, it was a contest of nerves. The seasoned Athapaththu, who moved aside a few of fellow players as she got ready to bowl the decisive over, maintained her composure. The opposition could not.

There will be many inquiries about the team's batting performance. They could easily have been needing 270 or 280 with the Lankan team appearing comfortable on 159-4 in the 30th innings segment, but in contrast the target was significantly less.

Nevertheless, the batting side displayed insufficient aggression from the very beginning, accumulating runs at below 2.5 runs each over during the initial phase, suffering a early batting collapse, and finally forcing themselves overwhelming to achieve.

But no matter what difficulties there are with their batting, if they had accepted their chances in the field, that 203-run target objective would have been substantially smaller.

It required them three tries to end the 72-run second-wicket, with wicketkeeper Nigar Sultana being unable to grab a difficult chance while keeping to send back Hasini Perera on 23 runs before the captain survived from a caught and bowled chance opportunity against Rabeya Khan.

Perera was spilled again on 55 runs and 63, the final opportunity traveling directly to Jhilik at cover position, before eventually being trapped leg before wicket by Shorna as she tried to up the ante with teammates falling near her.

Afterwards in the innings, there was additionally a stumping chance missed and a failed run-out, even though the run-out chance was a somewhat unfortunate, with Jhilik deputising with the keeping duties following an fitness issue to the regular keeper.

Regrettably for Bangladesh, such fielding woes are nowhere near a one-off. They've missed 14 opportunities from a possible 27 at this World Cup and display the lowest fielding effectiveness (48.1 percent) of the competing sides.

They are a team who are overall progressing in the proper way – they are participating in merely their second 50-over World Cup after all – but poor fielding standards is a prominent problem which demands focus.