West Indies beat Sri Lanka by 47 runs in their ICC Women’s World Cup match at the County Grounds, Derby yesterday. Batting first Windies women piled up 229/9 with Merissa Aguilleira making the top score of 46 not out. Spripali Weerakkody bowled best for Sri Lanka, capturing 3/38. Inoka Ranaweera (2/56), Ama Kanchana (2/50), Shashikala Siriwardena (1/33) were the other wicket-takers.
Chasing a 230-run victory target Lankan lasses were skittled out for 182 runs in 48 overs. Shashikala made 33 runs while Prasadani Weerakkody added 30 runs. Anisa Mohammed took 3/39 whiel Afy Fletcher (2/38) and Shanel Daley (2/30) shared two wickets each.
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