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Sri Lanka's national women's cricket team beat the Proteas women by seven wickets.

Sri Lanka’s national women’s cricket team beat the Proteas women by seven wickets in Potchefstroom on Saturday afternoon to level the three-match series. After winning the toss and electing to bat, the Proteas women set the visitors a target of 138 for victory.After winning the toss and electing to bat, the Proteas women lost a wicket in the fourth over. Achini Kulasuriya removed Tazmin Britz for seven with the South Africans having 26 runs on the scoreboard.

Marizanne Kapp and Anneke Bosch contributed 58 runs to take the Proteas women to 84. Bosch reached a half century in the process but her brilliant innings were shortly brought to an end in the 10th over by Kavisha Dilhari. The Proteas women suffered a collapse which saw them reduced to 118. They lost seven wickets for 19 with Karabo Meso sent packing for a duck by Chamali Athaphaththu.In reply, the visitors scored 25 runs before the Proteas women struck. Athaphaththu was caught behind for six by Meso off the bowling of Tumi Sekhukhune.

Vishmi Gunaratne and Harshitha Samarawickrama added 31 runs to take the visitors to 56 before the latter was sent packing for 12. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.

 

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