Eire Ladies will play Zimbabwe tomorrow for a spot within the T20 World Cup finals in South Africa subsequent February – they usually have the momentum.
While Laura Delany’s facet adopted up their facile 9 wickets victory over USA on Monday with a scientific 19 runs win over Scotland yesterday, to complete second of their group behind Bangladesh, Zimbabwe fell to a shock 4 wickets defeat by UAE.
The hosts gained their first recreation of the event with their 15-year-old leg spinner hitting the final ball for 4.
Zimbabwe completed prime of their group, due to a superior run-rate so, to that extent, the outcome didn’t matter however it's going to give Eire nice encouragement going into their semi-final within the Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi (12 midday BST). Gaby Lewis was participant of the match in Eire’s victory, carrying on the place she left off from her undefeated 44 towards the States with an much more belligerent 66 off simply 37 balls with 13 fours.
She was already in full circulate when Amy Hunter was caught for simply three with the full on 35 within the fifth over and Lewis then shared a second wicket stand of 62 in 45 balls with Orla Prendergast who completed 55 not out and was drained by the intense warmth. She wanted an icepack on her neck even earlier than she made it again to the gamers’ tent.
Prendergast took her place within the discipline and held an excellent catch within the fifth over to cut back Scotland to 34 for 2 and Cara Murray took the massive wicket of captain Kathryn Bryce for 18.
When the Waringstown leg spinner adopted up with the wicket of Sarah Bryce for 49, the Scots wanted 56 from 26 balls with simply 4 wickets left. It was recreation over.