These days, surprising and historic results are being seen in the cricket field. In the T20 World Cup, America defeated Pakistan and Afghanistan defeated Australia. Then in the final of the Women's Asia Cup, Sri Lanka surprised Team India. Last week, Bangladesh won the Test series 2-0 for the first time with an amazing performance in Pakistan. After all this, the Ireland women's cricket team has also started creating a stir, which has registered a memorable victory over England for the second time within 5 days. Ireland, which defeated England in an ODI match after about 23 years, has now won a T20 match against England for the first time. The star of this victory of Ireland was 22-year-old all-rounder Orla Prendergast.

The England women's cricket team has been on a tour of Ireland for the last few days, where the ODI and T20 series were to be played between the two teams. England had already won the ODI series by winning the first 2 matches, but on 11 September, Ireland performed brilliantly in the third and last ODI and defeated England by 3 wickets. In this way, for the first time since 2001, the Ireland women's team defeated England in an ODI match. Now 4 days later, the same team also won the second match of the T20 series.

Bowlers put a rein

In the second match of the T20 series played in Belfast on Sunday 15 September, Ireland won in a thrilling manner by 5 wickets. England batted first in this match and scored 169 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. For England, experienced opener Tammy Beaumont scored 40 runs in 34 balls but the real impact was made by Paige Schofield. Coming at number four, this batsman scored a quick 34 runs in just 21 balls, which included 3 fours and a six. Apart from her, Georgia Adams also scored 23 runs in 15 balls. For Ireland, Prendergast took 2 wickets for 31 runs, while the star of the ODI match victory, Amy Maguire, also took 2 wickets.

Then Orla rained boundaries

After showing amazing performance in bowling, 22-year-old all-rounder Prendergast showed her strength in batting. Prendergast, who came to the crease after the wicket fell in the first over, launched a strong attack on England's bowling. This batsman scored 80 runs in just 51 balls and brought the team close to victory. Prendergast was out on the last ball of the 19th over. She hit 13 fours. Apart from her, captain Gabby Lewis scored 38 runs in 35 balls. In the last over, Ireland needed 7 runs and had 7 wickets but there was a bit of drama here. The team got 1 run on the first ball and a four on the second ball but Maddie Villiers took 2 wickets on the next 2 balls. Now 2 runs were needed on 2 balls, which Christina Coulter scored on a single ball and gave the team a historic victory.