West Indies’ Hayley Matthews performs a shot in opposition to Australia throughout the remaining of the ICC Ladies’s World Twenty20 2016 cricket event at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, India.
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West Indies Ladies’s Captain Hayley Matthews returns within the Ladies’s Premier League Twenty20 event when her facet, Mumbai Indians (MI), scored a five-wicket win in opposition to Gujarat Giants in a low-scoring match on the Chinnaswamy Stadium in India.
The 25-year-old Barbadian all-rounder, took 1 for 33 from her allotted 4 overs together with her off-spin, after the Giants have been put in to bat crawling to 126 for 9.
Matthews made seven earlier than she was caught at deep mid-wicket within the third over, from left-arm spinner Tanuja Kanwar with MI reaching 39 for two on the finish of the Energy Play.
An unbeaten 46 from her captain Harmanpreet Kaur guided MI via a profitable run chase with 11 balls remaining handy them their second win within the event, retaining them firmly on high of the standings.
However MI owed their success primarily to a Participant-of-the-Match efficiency from New Zealand Ladies’s all-rounder Amelia Kerr, whose 4 for 17 from her 4 overs undermined the Giants batting, and her 31 off 25 balls plus 66-run partnership with Kaur for the fourth wicket.
Nevertheless, within the following recreation, Matthews acquired her batting groove again, however her resolute half-century did not encourage Mumbai Indians Ladies, and Uttar Pradesh Warriorz Ladies beat them by seven wickets within the Ladies’s Premier League Twenty20.
Matthews smacked 9 fours and one six in a high rating of 55 from 47 balls which contributed significantly to MI whole of 161 for six of their allotted 20 overs after being put in to bat.
However Matthews leaked 32 runs from her 4 overs with out taking a wicket together with her off-spin when her facet took the sector, and constant batting down the order led by a power-packed 57 from Kiran Navgire bounded to victory with 21 balls remaining.
