Sri Lanka overcomes the Bangladeshi side to maintain their tournament hopes ongoing

Women's Cricket World Cup, Navi Mumbai

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

Bangladesh 195-9 (50 overs): Joty 77 (98); Chamari Athapaththu 4-42

The Lankan side emerge victorious by seven runs margin

Sri Lanka took four crucial dismissals in the decisive over to seal a nail-biting triumph over their opponents and keep their narrow chances of qualifying for the tournament knockout stage alive.

Needing a attainable score of 203 on a favorable wicket in Navi Mumbai, the Bangladeshi team wanted nine runs from the remaining six balls.

However, Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu claimed three crucial wickets in four balls and de Silva ran out Nahida to achieve a dramatic win for Sri Lanka.

The win – Sri Lanka's maiden of the competition after three losses and two abandoned games against the Australian team and the Kiwi side – elevates them tied on four match points with the Indian team and the New Zealand side, who face each other on Thursday.

Bangladesh, however, suffered a fifth straight defeat since winning their initial game against Pakistan and have been eliminated.

While the Bangladeshi side made the ideal beginning, with Marufa Akter taking a wicket with the opening bowl of the game to remove Vishmi Gunaratne, they were appropriately penalized for a subpar fielding display.

They gifted second chances to Hasini Perera, who was missed on three occasions, and the Lankan captain.

While the Sri Lankan skipper could not take advantage, removed lbw for 46 just one delivery after being put down by Rabeya, Perera forced the opposition pay.

She registered a maiden international half-century, making 85 from 99 bowls and contributing to an important 74-run partnership fifth-wicket association with Nilakshi de Silva.

Bangladesh, guided by Shorna's 3-27, dragged themselves back in the game, with De Silva's dismissal in the 34th innings segment triggering a Lankan collapse from 174 for four to 202 total.

During their chase, Sri Lanka's starting bowlers Malki Madara and Prabodhani contained the opposition to 23 for one in a lacklustre opening overs and they were subsequently diminished to 44-3.

Sharmin and Nigar Sultana Joty restored their score, adding 82 runs for the fourth wicket stand before Sharmin retired hurt for a stubborn 64 in the 36th bowling phase.

It was advantage the chasing team approaching the final two innings segments, with just 12 more runs required.

Nevertheless, Dasanayaka sent back Ritu and allowed merely three runs before Athapaththu's dramatic spell, with Rabeya Khan, Nahida Akter, captain Joty and Marufa Akter all sent back as the Lankan team seized the win at the death.

Ultimately, it was a match of nerves. The highly experienced Athapaththu, who ushered away a few of teammates as she prepared to deliver the final over, kept hers. The opposition could not.

There will be plenty of inquiries about Bangladesh's batting performance. They could easily have been pursuing around 270-280 with Sri Lanka looking at ease on 159 for four in the 30th bowling phase, but in contrast the chase was considerably smaller.

However, the batting side lacked aggression from the very beginning, scoring at less than 2.5 runs per over during the powerplay, experiencing a initial wicket loss, and ultimately leaving themselves overwhelming to accomplish.

But no matter what difficulties there are with their batting lineup, if they had seized their chances in the fielding department, that 203 total objective would have been substantially lower.

It needed them three efforts to terminate the 72-run stand second-wicket association, with wicketkeeper Joty being unable to take a difficult opportunity while keeping to send back Perera on 23 before the captain survived from a caught and bowled chance possibility against Rabeya Khan.

Perera was spilled again on 55 runs and 63 runs, the last attempt flying straight to Jhilik at cover, before eventually being trapped lbw by Shorna as she attempted to accelerate the scoring with teammates being dismissed near her.

Afterwards in the game, there was furthermore a missed stumping and a run-out opportunity lost, while the second one was a slightly unlucky, with Rubya Haider standing in with the keeping duties due to an fitness issue to the regular keeper.

Sadly for the team, such fielding woes are nowhere near a single occurrence. They've missed 14 opportunities from a available 27 chances at this tournament and boast the lowest fielding effectiveness (48.1 percent) of the participating teams.

They are a side who are overall heading in the right direction – they are participating in only their second ODI World Cup after all – but poor fielding standards is a prominent issue which requires improvement.