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In the ongoing 12th match of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 between England and Sri Lanka in Colombo, the former got a rapid start as their openers Amy Jones and Tammy Beaumont were looking confident against opposition bowlers. In the fourth over, when Sugandika Kumari came to bowl her second over, Beaumont smashed her for two fours and everything seemed perfect for the English team. However, on the fourth delivery of the over, Beaumont played a stroke towards the off-side and Kavisha Dilhari displayed alacrity which led to the run out of Jones, who failed to make it to the striker’s end.
After playing the shot, Beaumont ran towards the other end immediately but for Jones, it wasn’t feasible to make it to the other side as Dilhari looked stupendous with her reflexes. Eventually, the 32-year-old had to walk back to the dugout with her 11-run score off 13 balls.
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England lost six wickets in quick succession in World Cup clash
Sri Lanka have put up a decent bowling show in the match, thus far. Beaumont also lost her wicket against Sugandika after scoring 32 off 29. Heather Knight fell against Inoka Ranaweera and returned to the pavilion with her 29 runs which came in 47 deliveries. Sophia Dunkley, at her score of 18 became Dilhari’s victim.
Emma Lamb got cleaned up by Ranaweera while attempting to play a sweep shot. Alice Capsey, who came at number seven, got stumped by Anushka Sanjeewani on Ranaweera’s delivery. After 35 overs of play, England are 168/6 with Heather Knight (63* off 73) and Charlie Dean at the crease (0* off 1). Ranaweera has bowled a brilliant spell so far as she has registered 3/28 figures after bowling eight overs.
