Ireland's World Cup Hopes Hit By West Indies Loss

ICC Women's World Cup qualifier, Lahore

West Indies 181-6 (33 overs): Taylor 46, Henry 46; J Maguire 3-35

Ireland 175 (32.2 overs): Hunter 48, Delany 32; Matthews 4-24, Alleyne 2-33

West Indies won by six runs

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Ireland's hopes of securing a spot astatine nan Women's World Cup later this twelvemonth now look distant aft West Indies hit them by six runs successful a tense qualifier successful Lahore.

The Irish mislaid their opener to hosts Pakistan connected Wednesday successful nan six-team round-robin tournament, wherever only nan apical 2 will unafraid spots for nan India showpiece.

In a title reduced to 33 overs pursuing rain, West Indies made 181-6 aft Ireland won nan flip pinch Stafanie Taylor and Chinelle Henry some scoring 46.

Jane Maguire was nan prime of nan Ireland bowlers pinch her 3 wickets including nan dismissal of Taylor.

As was nan lawsuit against Pakistan, Ireland started good successful their reply arsenic Amy Hunter and skipper Gaby Lewis put connected 57 for nan opening wicket.

However, nan skipper was past bowled by West Indies skipper Hayley Matthews for 17 and 3 further wickets fell complete nan adjacent six overs arsenic nan Irish slipped to 80-4.

These included nan departure of apical scorer Hunter for 48 arsenic she was bowled by Afy Fletcher.

Knocks of 32 and 26 from erstwhile skipper Laura Delany and Christina Coulter Reilly moved nan Irish to wrong 36 of their target earlier they were some dismissed by Aaliyah Alleyne.

After Ava Canning and Jane Maguire departed successful successive balls to Matthews to time off Ireland connected 156-9, Arlene Kelly and Cara Murray sewage them to wrong 7 runs of triumph pinch an awesome business of 19.

However, Matthews ended nan title by dismissing Kelly for 18 pinch Henry taking nan drawback arsenic West Indies claimed a captious triumph aft their defeat by Scotland connected Wednesday.

Matthews' period wasn't capable for West Indies successful midweek but her bowling figures of 4-24 from 6.2 overs proved nan decisive publication successful Friday's lucifer against Ireland's women, who look Bangladesh adjacent connected Sunday, 13 April.

Pakistan apical nan array pinch 2 wins from 2 matches after beating Scotland by six wickets.