Summary

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  • West Indies win by six wickets off penultimate ball to stay in tournament - Ireland eliminated

  • Win ends 15-game losing run

  • Captain Hayley Matthews finishes 66 not out off 53 balls

  • Ireland have now lost 15 successive games in T20 World Cups

  • Ireland slipped from 116-2 to 137-9

  • Orla Prendergast (61) hits Ireland's first T20 World Cup half-century

Live Reporting

Um-E-Aymen Babar and Joe Rindl

  1. Nathan Johns
    Journalist for Irish Times

    Just as we were saying Ireland really needed to put the foot down, they've gifted West Indies a boundary.

  2. WI 65-2

    Laura Delany's first ball is cut past mid-off through Jane Maguire's legs and runs away to the boundary for four. West Indies will love that!

    Maguire then takes a tumble at mid-off, as she looks to stop another drive, and is moved to extra cover by the skipper.

  3. Ffion Wynne
    BBC Sport in Cape Town

    The seamers are doing the job at the moment, just tying things up. This has been an expensive over but it has been hard to play without pace on the ball.

  4. Could this drop by Amy Hunter earlier be costly?

  5. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    While Hayley Matthews is there West Indies will believe. But when you're on a run of 15 matches without a win, it is hard to believe.

  6. Drinks break

    WI 58-2

    It's a full ball from Jane Maguire and it's clipped past deep square leg by Hayley Matthews between the umpire's legs for four.

    Another wide ball from Maguire goes behind point for another boundary.

    West Indies will need a lot more of those if they don't want to be eliminated tonight. Play stops for a drink.

  7. WI 48-2

    The worm shows West Indies are 13 runs behind Ireland. West Indies are 48 for 2 after 9 overs. At the same stage Ireland were 61 for 1.BBC Sport

    Chinelle Henry is off the mark with a single and Ireland's skipper Laura Delany's over ends with a dot.

  8. Ffion Wynne
    BBC Sport in Cape Town

    Ireland players celebrate the dismissal of West Indies' Shemaine Campbelle (not seen) during the Group B T20 women's World Cup cricket match between West Indies and Ireland at Newlands Stadium in Cape TownGetty Images

    This is where it gets tricky for West Indies. Is anyone going to support Hayley Matthews?

  9. wicket

    WICKET

    Campbelle lbw b Delany 8 (WI 46-2)

    Unlucky for the West Indies.

    The ball was pitching outside off and it was hitting the top of middle and off stump.

    Delany jumps in the air to celebrate. Here comes Chinelle Henry.

  10. West Indies review

    Shemaine Campbelle is gone this time! Or is she?

    After a chat with captain Hayley Matthews she, rather reluctantly, decides to review it.

  11. Not out

    Shemaine Campbelle survives. The ball is grazing the very top of the bails and it's umpire's call.

    The over finishes with a single.

  12. Ffion Wynne
    BBC Sport in Cape Town

    It's got her right in the ribs. It's a nasty one.

  13. Umpire review

    Shemaine Campbelle goes down on one knee and tries to go for a sweep, but she's too early on the shot.

    Ireland, after a chat, decide to send it upstairs for another look.

  14. WI 40-1

    West Indies respond with back-to-back boundaries by Hayley Matthews through cover.

  15. Ffion Wynne
    BBC Sport in Cape Town

    It's really tough on Hayley Matthews. She's their captain, their best bowler and their best batter. She has to do it all and when the run-rate is creeping up on her. I don't think anyone would blame her for feeling the pressure a bit.

  16. WI 31-1

    There's some more hesitation about taking a single with the West Indies batters.

    Arlene Kelly bowls short and Shemaine Campbelle hits it towards backward point. The throw comes in but shy of the stumps. If it hit Campbelle would have been out.

  17. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Players of Ireland celebrate the wicket of Rashada Williams of West Indies during the ICC Women's T20 World Cup group B match between West Indies and Ireland at Newlands StadiumGetty Images

    Hunter with the throw there as well. She's had the missed catch but what I loved was all the Ireland girls were around her there to tell her it was alright, we've got the wicket, we've got the breakthrough.

  18. wicket

    WICKET

    Williams run out (Paul) 17 (WI 28-1)

    Leah Paul comes into the attack and Rashada Williams hits it towards backward point.

    There's hesitation to take the single and Amy Hunter collects on the bounce, before throwing the ball to the non-striker's end where Paul whips off the bails. We have the first wicket!

    The over ends with a dot ball and in comes Shemaine Campbelle.

  19. WI 28-0

    Left-armer Leah Paul comes round the wicket and Hayley Matthews sweeps it behind square leg for a boundary.

  20. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    You can't be giving captain Hayley Matthews an extra life. West Indies should be one down and well below the run-rate.