SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – West Indies Girls’s captain Hayley Matthews mentioned the accountability that comes with the function and her publicity to franchise cricket over the previous couple of years have been crucial components within the enhancements to her batting.
The 25-year-old all-rounder hammered an unimaginable 132, and her facet pulled off the best profitable run chase of all-time in ladies’s Twenty20 Internationals in opposition to hosts, world No. 1 and world champions Australia Girls on Monday.
Matthews smashed 20 fours and 5 sixes from 64 balls in a breath-taking assault on the Australian bowling, and the Caribbean facet efficiently chased 213 to safe a seven-wicket win within the second T20I at North Sydney Oval to degree the three-match collection 1-1.
“At this time was fairly unimaginable,” Matthews advised reporters on the post-play information convention. “I can’t fairly discover the phrases but, however I don’t assume many days of cricket have overwhelmed that.”
Her batting efficiency got here after she took three for 36 from her allotted 4 overs together with her off-spin whereas Australia Girls piled up 212 for six after they have been put into bat, and it made her a shoo-in for a seventh straight Participant-of-the-Match award in T20s.
Matthews made an unbeaten 99 within the first T20I, which her facet misplaced by eight wickets on Sunday on the similar venue, however she made positive that she didn’t miss out on the second time of asking together with her dynamic second T20I hundred.
“The workforce’s management has helped me to take accountability for my recreation, together with studying and understanding my recreation much more from enjoying franchise and T20 cricket on the street,” she added.
“Two of these put collectively during the last 12 months have helped, not solely with me scoring runs however constantly scoring them.”
She mentioned: “I talk about attempting to steer by instance, and I feel it’s one thing rising up I watched Stafanie do whereas I used to be enjoying together with her in my youthful days.
“Since I’ve taken over the function, I’ve tried to emulate that, take accountability, and set an ideal instance for the younger women.”
Taylor made 59 from 41 balls, and Matthews mixed together with her predecessor as West Indies captain for a file 174-run partnership for the second wicket. On the similar time, the Australians have been left to rue a few dropped possibilities through the run chase simply when the 2 batting stalwarts for the guests began to consider.
“Steph and I began to take a look at chasing it once I assume we wanted 105 from 54 balls,” she mentioned. “At that second, with our momentum, we spoke about attempting to go as exhausting as doable from each ends with the wickets we had.
“Kudos to her as properly. She had a tremendous knock on the different finish. It took a lot strain off me and stored the boundaries flowing.”
Taylor was dismissed with 28 wanted from 18 balls to offer Australia a sliver of hope, and Matthews fell with 9 wanted off seven balls. Nonetheless, Chinelle Henry and Shemaine Campbelle caught round to formalize the end result with one ball remaining.
“It was a really lengthy day,” Matthews mentioned. “After getting so near a rating, chasing 212 doesn’t come each day, particularly for our workforce. You need to recover from that line.
“I had all religion in Shemaine and Chin. They skilled, they’ve been across the circuit for a very long time and have been coming into their very own of late, so I had little doubt.”
The ultimate T20I of the collection is on Thursday at Allan Border Area in Brisbane.
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