{"id":21024,"date":"2024-07-02T14:24:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21024"},"modified":"2024-07-02T14:25:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:25:30","slug":"west-indies-women-level-t20i-series-against-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/west-indies-women-level-t20i-series-against-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"West Indies Women Level T20I Series Against Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>In an exciting series of T20 International matches, the West Indies women&#8217;s cricket team squared off against Sri Lanka, each claiming a victory in the first two games held at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The series opener saw Sri Lanka clinching a thrilling win by four wickets. Batting first, the West Indies women set a target of 134 for eight in their allotted 20 overs, anchored by Hayley Matthews with a solid 30 runs off 30 balls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aaliyah Alleyne contributed 26 runs, while Qiana Joseph added 20. Sri Lanka&#8217;s Chamari Athapaththu starred with the ball, taking 4 wickets for 29 runs, continuing her impressive performance from the recently concluded ODI series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, Sri Lanka successfully chased down the target of 135 runs in 18.4 overs, led by Vishmi Gunarathne and Harshitha Samarawickrama, both scoring 35 runs each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the second game, rain interruptions led to a revised target under the Duckworth Lewis method. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka managed 89 for 4 in 15.2 overs, but the West Indies women reached 99 for 4 in 14.1 overs, securing a six-wicket victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The series now stands level at 1-1, with the decisive third T20I scheduled for Friday, June 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exciting series of T20 International matches, the West Indies women&#8217;s cricket team squared off against Sri Lanka, each claiming a victory in the first two games held at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21026,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21024\/revisions\/21026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}