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Ireland Women's International Matches
India beat Ireland by 9 wickets
World Cup, Pretoria, South Africa, 24 March 2005
Scorecard
Emma Beamish
Head in hands day

The Indian match was one of those where your head was in your hands. We were confronted with a superb bowling attack and the only bat to offer real resistance was Mimms who got a very classy 38 partnered well by Una 11. Babs came in at the end and made a positive 13 before being caught.

With 65 on the board to defend our pride was at stake. We were not just going to hand it over and we made India work for their runs. Headsy bowled well and took the only wicket, 17 for 1 off 6 and was well supported by Babs and Mimms. The Indians got the runs in 17 overs and that was that. A bad day at the office …