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Beaten Sri Lanka women return home with hope of bigger things on the horizon. – By TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE. (eLanka Sports Editor). Sri Lanka’s women cricketers were awakened to the reality that their recent success against top teams in the world could not be sustained in New Zealand.  They were beaten comprehensively in the one-dayers 2-0, lucky it wasn’t worse, when weather intervened in a abandoned game with the Kiwis a reasonablechance to win it. But they showed reselience and fought back to upset the confident New Zealanders in the T20 series that followed, winning game one and losing the next. Rain then disrupted the decider giving them a consolation 1 -1result to return home with belief that all was not lost. What really mattered in the end was that Sri Lanka’s improvement in the women’s game appears to be gaining momentum and is far from the one dimensional ...