If the Sri Lankan bowlers could have bowled a little better, the Sri Lankan women's team would not have been defeated in this match. I would say Sri Lanka women's team lost only because of their poor bowling. No Sri Lankan bowler can bowl well against Gaby Lewis. He collected 119 runs from just 75 balls.
Ireland women's team scored 173 runs with the loss of only 3 wickets. Every Sri Lankan bowler gave a lot of runs. No bowler's bowling was controlled. This is why it was time for Ireland to collect big.
Sri Lankan squad Harshitha Samarawickrama and Dilhari batted well in this match. Due to the responsible batting of these two batsmen, the match became very competitive. Even then they were defeated by 7 runs till the end. Anyway I'm happy with Ireland's win. The players of Ireland played well.
After having the lost in first game, Ireland w done good job in batting; from start, their approach were aggressive; this helps them for having good target with Gaby Lewis having a hundred off just 75 balls. This was turning point for their winning story in this game because after having target of 173 their bowlers were having no pressure, and they have done good bowling in this game we have some below par bowling from the Sri Lankan w that allowed Irish w few extra runs.
While chasing we have good batting from the Sri Lankan w as their confidence level was high and things were going good for them but in last few overs we saw good bowling from the Irish w which allowed them to win in this game and end this series on level as this is surely good result for them because having level series against team like Sri Lanka w will give them good confidence for the ODI format for sure.
In the first match, Ireland women's team was defeated due to batsmen not performing well. As the pitch was batting friendly. Therefore, the Sri Lankan team won the target of 146 runs given by Ireland very easily. In the first match, Ireland team probably thought they would win if they could score a target of 140+. So from the beginning of the innings, Ireland's batsmen batting was a bit slow.
In the second match, Ireland's batsmen tried their best to provide a big target. Especially Lewis' excellent batting made it easy for Ireland to provide big targets. Ireland women's team scored 173 runs for the loss of only 3 wickets. Ireland women's team scored 55 runs in the last 5 overs.
The T20 series has been drawn. I am looking forward to see how both the teams perform in the ODI matches. Both teams will play 3 ODI matches. Sri Lanka women's team is more experienced than Ireland in ODI format. But Ireland's players are also in very good form now. And Ireland's players are more confident now. So expect the ODI matches to be competitive as well.