Sri Lanka secured a dominant eight-wicket comfort victory over sequence winners Eire within the third one-day worldwide at Stormont.
In distinction to the opening two matches, Eire’s batters struggled from the off as Achini Kulasuriya dismissed Sarah Forbes and Amy Hunter within the first two balls of the match.
Kulasuriya continued to tear via Eire’s prime order as skipper Orla Prendergast departed to depart the hosts on 10-3.
As wickets continued to tumble, the Irish wanted a knock of 35 from all-rounder Arlene Kelly and late runs from Alice Tector (17), Freya Sargent (16) and Aimee Maguire (10) to succeed in a paltry 122 in 46.3 overs.
Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu matched Kulasuriya’s three-wicket haul with spectacular figures of 3-15 as she dismissed Kelly earlier than mopping up the Eire tail.
The vacationers had been by no means underneath any strain within the run chase regardless of dropping opener Vishmi Gunaratne (9) within the seventh over which put them on 32-1.
Athapaththu’s 48 helped them clinch victory as Harshitha Samarawickrama adopted up her 105 on Sunday by hitting an unbeaten 48.
Ava Canning bowled Gunaratne, with Sargent dismissing the Sri Lanka skipper for Eire’s solely different wicket because the guests gained with 26.5 overs to spare.
The defeat took a bit gloss off an in any other case extremely profitable 10 days of white-ball motion for Eire as they adopted a 1-1 drawn Twenty20 sequence by taking a 2-1 victory within the ODIs.
Eire secured the one-day sequence on Sunday regardless of being with out common skipper Laura Delany and vice-captain Gaby Lewis, which meant that Prendergast was given the captaincy.
The Irish made two bowling adjustments to their beginning group on Tuesday as Canning and Tector changed Jane Maguire and Alana Dalzell.
