Sri Lanka stun England again to clinch historic series win
Captain Athapaththu leads from the front again in second successive shock victory
Captain Athapaththu leads from the front again in second successive shock victory
Scorer: Chethan Kumar | Commentator: Vithushan Ehantharajah
9:13pm: SamD: "As a Sri Lankan fan, This series win is more valuable than the men's team winning the ongoing Asia Cup. Chamari and her team worked hard long time finally they got the results." Spot on, Sam. Not much more to say beyond that. Thanks for joining us tonight. See you all soon - Saturday, actually, for the start of the ODI series between these two teams!
8:59pm: Now time for Chamari Athapaththu - player of the match, player of the series and the winning captain: "I'm really happy with my performance and my team performance. The last two tours against Bangladesh and New Zealand we were playing really good cricket. We continued that performance in this series as well and finally we won!
"My bowling unit have done a really good job today and the whole tournament. I can mention here, especially the batters, doing really good, which is how we won. We have a good head coach, good support staff - it's a new group. We always talk about positive things in our dressing room, never negative things. Sri Lanka Cricket have helped a lot; they've increased our payments and given contracts for the girls. We have 60 plays contracted in the national set-up and we have a good domestic structure as well. We can be a good team in the future."
8:54pm: Heather Knight is speaking to Sky: "I think credit to Sri Lanka, they played brilliantly in the last two plans. They came out with good plans, bowling a lot of spin, and we have areas where we need to get better. We've been a little bit off, we haven't quite been at our best and we've been punished by Sri Lanka. A few of the batters got starts today, including myself, but didn't go on. Certainly an area we can get better is playing spin; they had really good plans for us."
How's this for a stat: This is the first T20i bilateral series England have lose to anyone other than Australia since a 2010 defeat to New Zealand!
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