Women's Asia Cup 2024 was played in Sri Lanka. In the final of this tournament, Sri Lanka defeated Team India and won the Women's Asia Cup title for the first time. It became the third women's team to win the Asia Cup after India and Bangladesh. But after this historic victory, it has faced a shameful defeat. Something has happened to the Sri Lankan women's team which they would not have even thought of in their dreams.

Sri Lankan team is in bad shape

Sri Lanka's women's cricket team is currently on a tour of Ireland. The T20 series played between the two teams on this tour ended in a 1-1 draw.

At the same time, Ireland has taken an unassailable lead of 2-0 in the 3-match ODI series. This means that Sri Lanka has faced defeat in an ODI series against Ireland for the first time in its cricket history. At the same time, the defeat in the first match of this series was Sri Lanka's first defeat against Ireland in ODIs.

Historical performance of Ireland team

This series is no less than a dream for the Ireland team. Earlier they had not won a single ODI match against the Sri Lankan women's team, but this time they have managed to win the series.

In the second ODI match played between the two teams, the Ireland team batted first and scored 255 runs for the loss of 5 wickets. In response, the Sri Lankan team could only score 240 runs in 50 overs.

In this match, Lia Paul scored the highest 81 runs for Ireland. Rebecca Stokell scored an unbeaten 53 runs. Amy Hunter also contributed 66 runs. On the other hand, Harshita Samarawickrama scored a century in this match for Sri Lanka. She scored 105 runs, but she could not lead the team to victory. Harshita Samarawickrama was run out in this match, otherwise the result of the match could have been different.