The teams started a 25-overs per side contest with Alana Dalzell - in for Arlene Kelly - dismissing Emma Lamb before another heavy shower forced the teams from the field. It looked with the square covered it could be terminal, but the gusty winds have blown the rain clouds away and the sun is now shining. Definite four seasons in one day weather. Tammy Beaumont in the runs again with a half century but five wickets for Aimee Maguire has helped Ireland bowl England out for 153. Ireland skipper Gaby Lewis led from the front in the chase hitting 10 fours in a top score of 72, sharing stands of 51 with both Amy Hunter and Leah Paul. However her dismissal with just 18 needed and 8 wickets in hand sparked panic in the home ranks with the finishing line in sight. Ireland lost wickets in three consecutive balls in the final over to leave number 9 Alana Dalzell needing a boundary from the last ball. The Bready all-rounder proved equal to the task, thumping the ball to long-on to spark a famous win - only the second time they have managed it since their first back in 2001. The sides now move on to Dublin, where they play back-to-back T20 internationals on Saturday and Sunday.

Records aplenty in the second ODI of the series as England recorded their biggest ever winning margin, their 275 eclipsing their previous record of 239 achieved versus Denmark. A record also for Tammy Beaumont who recorded her tenth ODI century to pass both Nat Sciver-Brunt and Charlotte Edwards in the list. There was only going to be one winner in this encounter once England had posted a massive 320/8, two wickets each for Arlene Kelly and Freya Sargent with singletons for the Maguire sisters and Alice Tector. Little to be said about the Irish batting effort today other than it set a new record lowest total, beating, if that’s the correct term, their previous 46/9 versus Australia in 2001. Only Una Raymond-Hoey, who contributed half the runs scored off the bat, offered any sort of resistance as Kate Cross and Lauren Filer claimed three wickets each, Freya Kemp and Georgia Davis each with two. No sign of speedster Issy Wong with the ball today, but that may change on Wednesday in the final game of the series when England will be seeking a clean sweep with a win that will take them to the top of the ICC Women's Championship table.

Orla Prendergast top-scored with 76 as Ireland gave England a bit of a scare before succumbing to a Kate Cross inspired display. The stand-in England captain was to the fore as they prevailed by four wickets at a sun-drenched Stormont. Ireland lost Una Raymond-Hoey and skipper Gaby Lewis cheaply, but they got back on track thanks to Pembroke all-rounder Prendergast's half century (8 fours, 1 six), sharing stands of 53 with Amy Hunter (37) and 77 with Leah Paul (33). At 151 for 3 in the 31st over Ireland would have been hoping for a total in excess of 270, but the dismissal of Prendergast saw the wheels come off - Cross taking her best ODI figures of 6 for 30 as seven wickets fell for 59. A total of 210 was well short of what Ed Joyce's young squad would have envisaged, but to their credit they kept chipping away with Prendergast (2-27) making early inroads. Holly Armitage (44) and Paige Scholfield (31) got England on top, but wickets kept falling in twos and at 156 for 6, Ireland sensed an opportunity in a line-up featuring five debutants. However, Cross closed the door firmly, hitting an unbeaten 38, as she and Bess Heath (26*) clinched victory with an unbroken 7th wicket stand of 55 in 46 balls. The teams meet again in the second ODI on Monday at the same venue.

The worst off all possible starts for the Girls in Green losing Sarah Forbes lbw to the first ball of the match, and Amy Hunter to the second, as she pushed a return catch to Kulasuriya. Orla Prendergast quickly became Kulasuriya's third victim, caught behind for only 3 - Ireland 10/3 in the fifth over. Christina Coulter Reilly fell to a catch by keeper Sanjeewani and then Rebecca Stokell lbw, half the side out for just 28 runs in the fifteenth over. A 36 run partnership between Leah Paul and Arlene Kelly doubled the score, but by then it was a case of trying to bat out the overs and get what whatever you can. In the end they scrambled to 122 which wold prove impossible to defend against the visitors powerful batting line up. There was a quick start to the chase from Athapaththu before a wicket for first change bowler Ava Canning when Gunaratne attempted a 'paddle' from way out side off stump and only managed to drag it on. Athapaththu and Samarwickrama added 62 for the second wicket before the Sri Lankan skipper chipped Freya Sargent to Alice Tector on the ring at mid off. But it was all too easy for the visitors to claim a consolation win with Ireland way off their best today, Samarwickrama unbeaten and matching the 48 of her skipper. All done and dusted in the twenty fourth over - A win for Sri Lanka but the series goes to Ireland 2-1.

Orla Prendergast led Ireland to a second sensational one-day international victory over Sri Lanka in Belfast and to a winning 2-0 lead in their three-match ICC World Championship series. After beating the tourists for the first time to level their T20 series on Tuesday, the Girls in Green have followed up with two more stunning successes at Stormont over the longer 50 overs distance, with a different captain on each occasion. Prendergast had to step into the breach when Gaby Lewis, who had herself taken over from the injured Laura Delany, pulled up with a tight quad, leaving the most inexperienced of sides to take on the Asia Cup champions. Undaunted, Amy Hunter, Leah Paul and Rebecca Stokell all scored half-centuries to post a respectable 255-5 and a resilient bowling performance sparked a Sri Lanka collapse from 172-2 to 240 all out and an Ireland victory by 15 runs. It is also hard to over state just how massive a win this was for coach Ed Joyce’s young side - a real coming-of-age victory. Hunter, who made 66 from 71 balls is still only 18, while spinners Freya Sargent and Aimee Maguire, who stemmed the flow of runs when Sri Lanka’s third-wicket partnership looked to be seizing the game, are 18 and 17 respectively. With experienced batters Lewis and Delany missing, the key partnership for Ireland was 114 for the fifth wicket between Paul, the top scorer with 81, and Stokell who finished 53 not out. While Harshitha Samarawickrama was making 105, Sri Lanka had the target well within their sights but her disastrous run out at the end of the 42nd over was the first of five wickets in 12 balls, and Arlene Kelly soon wrapped up the win to finish with 3-41. Jane Maguire took 2-33 from eight nagging overs in the middle of the innings but it will be the full quotas from her sister Aimee (1-49) and Sargent (1-46) that will have most pleased Joyce as he dreams of a 3-0 sweep in the final game.

A superb all-round display by all-rounder Orla Prendergast made it back-to-back victories for Ireland Women as they chased 260 to beat Sri Lanka by three wickets in a last over thriller at Stormont. The Pembroke star took three wickets in the visitors' innings with Vishmi Gunaratne making 101 - two wickets apiece for Alana Dalzell and Arlene Kelly, plus one for 16 year-old debutant Alice Tector. Stand-in skipper Gaby Lewis went cheaply, but Amy Hunter (42) and Sarah Forbes (30) kept Ed Joyce's side in the hunt. Prendergast then took centre stage, hitting 10 fours and 2 sixes in her 107-ball unbeaten 122. Her efforts looked as if they would be in vain with 30 needed off the last three overs, but 18 came off the 48th, with Prendergast, helped by Jane Maguire clinched another famous win.