{"id":1821,"date":"2026-05-26T02:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2026-05-26T02:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:24:07","slug":"new-zealand-womens-a-beat-sri-lanka-womens-a-in-3rd-t20-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/26\/new-zealand-womens-a-beat-sri-lanka-womens-a-in-3rd-t20-match\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Women\u2019s A beat Sri Lanka Women\u2019s A in 3rd T20 match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand Women\u2019s A team defeated the Sri Lanka Women\u2019s A team by 5 wickets in the third and final unofficial Women\u2019s T20 match held on Monday (25) at the Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>With this match, New Zealand A secured a consolation victory after losing the first two matches and conceding the series.<\/p>\n<p>In a low-scoring encounter, Sri Lanka Women\u2019s A, batting first, were bowled out for 78 runs in 16.5 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Sathya Sandeepani top-scored with 16 runs, while Sanchana Kavindi and Sumudu Nisansala contributed 15 runs each. Piumi Vathsala added 12 runs.<\/p>\n<p>For New Zealand A, Jess Watkin produced an outstanding bowling performance, taking 4 wickets for just 4 runs, while Kayley Knight claimed 2 wickets for 5 runs.<\/p>\n<p>In reply, New Zealand Women\u2019s A reached 79\/5 in 18.5 overs to secure victory.<\/p>\n<p>Brooke Halliday remained unbeaten on 30 runs, while Kate Anderson scored 17 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Pramudi Methsara took 2 wickets for 5 runs, and Sachini Nisansala claimed 2 wickets for 14 runs for Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Player of the Match:<\/strong> Jess Watkin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand Women\u2019s A team defeated the Sri Lanka Women\u2019s A team by 5 wickets in the third and final unofficial Women\u2019s T20 match held on Monday (25) at the Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium. With this match, New Zealand A secured a consolation victory after losing the first two matches and conceding the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}