Sri Lanka stored alive their slim hopes of constructing the Ladies’s T20 World Cup semi-finals for the primary time after a dramatic last-over win over Scotland at Outdated Trafford.
Sri Lanka chased down the 152 goal on the penultimate ball and gained by three wickets.
Scotland medium-pacer Rachel Slater bowled the final over, making an attempt to forestall Sri Lanka from scoring seven runs.
She conceded singles off the primary three deliveries, then pulled up and collapsed to the bottom with a suspected knee harm.
Slater finally left the sphere in tears, Priyanaz Chatterji stepped up, conceded a single however then the successful boundary to tailender Sugandika Kumari.
Sri Lanka wanted their best-ever third win in a single World Cup to be by an even bigger margin, inside 10.3 overs, however going the gap barely improved their web run fee and the West Indies can clinch the second and final semi-final spot of their group by beating winless Eire on Saturday.
Scotland, at their second T20 World Cup, sought fourth place and a direct spot into the 2028 T20 World Cup in Pakistan.
However solely Sarah Bryce, in after her sister and captain Kathryn fell at 66-2 within the tenth over, made the Sri Lankans sweat with an unbeaten 33-ball 47 and a last-ball boundary for a 151-6 complete.
Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu, showing in her tenth T20 World Cup, exploded with a 16-ball 33 however after her exit at 57-2 within the sixth over her team-mates slowed and crawled over the end line at 154-7.
Sri Lanka, who transfer into third place with their third win of the event, want West Indies to lose closely to Eire and New Zealand to lose to England on Saturday to advance from Group 2 on web run-rate.
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