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Women's Asia Cup

Lanka crush Bangladesh

Sports Reporter
Bangladesh failed to keep the momentum as they suffered an eight-wicket defeat to Sri Lanka in the Women's Asia Cup at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium yesterday.
Bangladesh bounced back brilliantly from a huge 182-run defeat in the opening match against defending champions India when they pulled off a historic four-wicket victory against Pakistan In the next game but their poor batting let them down in the third and last game of the first leg.
SP de Alwis scripted the home side's facile victory as she claimed three wickets for 13 runs before contributing an unbeaten 26.
The Bangladeshi women made a disastrous start after deciding to bat first, losing five wickets for 53 and failed to recover from the early damage. Eventually, they lost four wickets in the span of two runs to bundleoutfor94.
Opener Sathira Jakir hit 25 off 43 balls with the help of five boundaries while number four Ayesha Akhter added 24.
Alwis, who caused the major damage, got good support from Kumarihami and Weerakkody who bagged two wickets each. Sri Lanka lost only two wickets to reach the target of 95 in 19.3 overs.
Kumarihami and Alwis shared unbeaten 59 runs for the third wicket stand to secure their second victory after they had beaten Pakistan by 96 runs in the first match on Friday. Sri Lanka lost their second match against favour -
Ites India by 29 runs.
Kumarihami was unbeaten on 32 off 62 balls that featured six fours.
Panna Ghosh and skipper Salma Khatun took one wicket each for 21 and 23 runs respectively In the day's other match at Welagedara Stadium in Kurunegala, India maintained their all-win record by crushing Pakistan by 182 runs.
Bangladesh women's team will play their first return-leg match against India today, take on Pakistan on May 8 and face Sri Lanka on the following day.
SCORES IN BRIEF
BANGLADESH: 94 all out in 46 overs (Shathira 25, Ayesha 24, Tithy 17; Weerakkody 2-17, Alwis 3-13).
SRI LANKA: 95 for two in 19.3 overs ( Kumarihami 32“, Alwis 26*. Salma 1-21, Panna 1 -23)
Result: Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets.