The Lankan team defeats the Bangladeshi side to keep their World Cup tournament hopes breathing

Women's Cricket World Cup, Mumbai

The Lankan team 202 (48.4 overs): Hasini Perera 85 (99); Shorna 3-27

The Bangladeshi team 195-9 (50 overs): Nigar Sultana Joty 77 (98); Chamari Athapaththu 4-42

Sri Lanka win by seven runs margin

The Lankan cricket team secured four crucial dismissals in the decisive innings segment to achieve a nail-biting victory over Bangladesh and preserve their slim aspirations of making it for the tournament knockout stage ongoing.

Chasing a attainable score of 203 on a batting-friendly pitch in the Mumbai stadium, Bangladesh wanted nine runs from the final six balls.

Yet, Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu took three wickets in four bowls and de Silva dismissed via run-out Nahida to achieve a dramatic victory for Sri Lanka.

The triumph – Sri Lanka's maiden of the World Cup after three losses and two abandoned games against the Australian team and the Kiwi side – elevates them equal on four tournament points with India and New Zealand, who face each other on Thursday.

The Bangladeshi team, in contrast, experienced a fifth straight setback since securing victory in their tournament opener against Pakistan and have been knocked out.

Although the Bangladeshi side got off to the excellent commencement, with Marufa Akter striking with the initial ball of the encounter to dismiss Vishmi Gunaratne, they were appropriately penalized for a subpar fielding performance.

They offered second chances to Perera, who was spilled multiple times, and the Lankan captain.

Although Athapaththu failed to take advantage, removed lbw for 46 a single bowl after being missed by Rabeya, Hasini Perera forced Bangladesh pay.

She scored a first international half-century, making 85 from 99 deliveries and sharing an significant 74-run fifth-wicket association with De Silva.

The Bangladeshi team, spearheaded by Shorna's three wickets for 27 runs, pulled themselves back into the game, with Nilakshi's wicket in the 34th innings segment triggering a Sri Lanka batting collapse from 174-4 to 202 total.

In reply, the Lankan team's opening bowlers Malki Madara and Udeshika Prabodhani limited Bangladesh to 23 with one wicket down in a lacklustre powerplay and they were subsequently reduced to 44-3.

Sharmin and Nigar Sultana Joty restored their score, putting on an 82-run partnership for the fourth wicket stand before the batter retired hurt for a resolute 64 in the 36th innings segment.

It was leaning toward Bangladesh entering the remaining two bowling phases, with merely 12 runs needed.

Nevertheless, Dasanayaka dismissed Ritu and conceded merely three scoring runs before the captain's chaos, with Rabeya, Nahida Akter, skipper Joty and Marufa all removed as the Lankan team seized the win at the death.

In the end, it was a match of composure. The very experienced Lankan captain, who ushered away a handful of team-mates as she prepared to bowl the final over, kept hers. Bangladesh did not.

There will be plenty of questions about Bangladesh's batting effort. They could easily have been pursuing 270 to 280 with Sri Lanka looking settled on 159 for four in the 30th bowling phase, but rather the target was much lower.

Yet, Bangladesh lacked intent from the very beginning, accumulating runs at less than 2.5 scoring rate during the powerplay, experiencing a initial wicket loss, and eventually making themselves too much to do.

But no matter what problems there are with their batting approach, if they had taken their opportunities in the field, that 203-run objective would have been significantly smaller.

It needed them three efforts to end the 72-run stand second-wicket, with wicketkeeper Nigar Sultana not managing to grab a challenging chance as wicketkeeper to send back Perera on her score of 23 before Athapaththu survived from a return catch chance against Rabeya.

Perera was spilled once more on 55 and 63, the final opportunity traveling directly to Rubya Haider Jhilik at cover field, before ultimately being dismissed lbw by Shorna Akter as she tried to increase the tempo with teammates being dismissed around her.

Subsequently in the batting effort, there was also a stumping chance missed and a missed run-out, while the second one was a somewhat regrettable, with Jhilik standing in with the gloves due to an fitness issue to the regular keeper.

Regrettably for the team, such fielding problems are not at all a isolated incident. They've dropped 14 chances from a possible 27 at this tournament and have the worst fielding effectiveness (48.1 percent) of the competing sides.

They are a team who are typically moving in the proper way – they are competing in merely their second 50-over World Cup after all – but substandard fielding standards is a obvious problem which requires attention.