The Lankan team overcomes the Bangladeshi side to preserve their campaign ongoing

ICC Women's World Cup, Mumbai

The Lankan team 202 (48.4 overs): Hasini Perera 85 (99); Shorna 3-27

Bangladesh 195-9 (50 overs): Nigar Sultana Joty 77 (98); Chamari Athapaththu 4-42

Sri Lanka win by seven runs

The Lankan cricket team secured four crucial dismissals in the decisive innings segment to seal a nail-biting victory over Bangladesh and maintain their slim hopes of making it for the World Cup semi-finals alive.

Chasing a attainable total of 203 on a favorable wicket in the Mumbai stadium, Bangladesh required nine more runs from the last six balls.

Yet, Sri Lanka captain Athapaththu secured three crucial wickets in four deliveries and de Silva dismissed via run-out Nahida Akter to secure a thrilling success for Sri Lanka.

The win – Sri Lanka's maiden of the World Cup after three losses and two no-results against the Australian team and New Zealand – pushes them tied on four match points with the Indian team and New Zealand, who confront each other on Thursday.

The Bangladeshi team, however, endured a fifth straight setback since securing victory in their first match against Pakistan and have been removed from contention.

Even though the Bangladeshi side made the perfect start, with Marufa taking a wicket with the first delivery of the match to remove Gunaratne, they were appropriately punished for a poor fielding display.

They gifted second chances to Perera, who was spilled three times, and Athapaththu.

While the Sri Lankan skipper failed to take advantage, sent back lbw for 46 one ball after being dropped by Rabeya Khan, Perera forced the opposition regret it.

She scored a maiden international fifty, scoring 85 from 99 bowls and building an important 74-run stand fifth-wicket with De Silva.

Bangladesh, spearheaded by Shorna's three wickets for 27 runs, fought themselves back to the match, with Nilakshi's wicket in the 34th bowling segment triggering a Sri Lanka collapse from 174 for four to 202 total.

During their chase, the Lankan team's starting bowlers Madara and Udeshika Prabodhani limited the opposition to 23 with one wicket down in a uninspiring opening overs and they were subsequently brought down to 44 for three.

Sharmin Akter and Nigar Sultana Joty rebuilt their innings, putting on an 82-run partnership for the fourth wicket collaboration before the batter retired hurt for a determined 64 in the 36th innings segment.

It was in favor of Bangladesh entering the remaining two overs, with only 12 additional runs necessary.

Nevertheless, Dasanayaka removed Ritu Moni and conceded just three runs before Athapaththu's decisive intervention, with Rabeya, Nahida Akter, captain Joty and Marufa Akter all removed as the Lankan team grabbed the win at the very end.

Ultimately, it was a contest of nerve. The very experienced Lankan captain, who ushered away a few of team-mates as she got ready to bowl the decisive over, kept her composure. The opposition did not.

There will be plenty of doubts about the team's batting effort. They could easily have been needing around 270-280 with Sri Lanka appearing settled on 159-4 in the 30th bowling phase, but rather the chase was much lower.

Yet, Bangladesh showed little aggression from the start, scoring at less than 2.5 scoring rate during the opening overs, undergoing a top-order collapse, and eventually leaving themselves overwhelming to accomplish.

But no matter what issues there are with their batting lineup, if they had seized their catches in the field, that 203-run objective would have been substantially lower.

It required them three efforts to end the 72-run stand second-wicket collaboration, with keeper Nigar Sultana failing to take a challenging opportunity behind the stumps to send back Hasini Perera on 23 runs before the captain got a reprieve from a caught and bowled chance against Rabeya.

Perera was spilled once more on 55 and her score of 63, the last attempt going straight to Jhilik at cover, before ultimately being dismissed lbw by Shorna as she sought to increase the tempo with batting partners falling around her.

Afterwards in the batting effort, there was additionally a failed stumping and a missed run-out, although the run-out chance was a slightly unfortunate, with Rubya Haider substituting with the keeping duties following an fitness issue to Joty.

Sadly for the team, such fielding problems are nowhere near a one-off. They've failed to catch 14 chances from a available 27 at this competition and boast the poorest catch efficiency (less than 50%) of the eight teams.

They are a side who are typically heading in the proper way – they are competing in only their second one-day World Cup ultimately – but poor fielding standards is a obvious concern which demands attention.