DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Regardless of a sloppy efficiency within the subject, West Indies Ladies registered a cushty six-wicket win over minnows Scotland Ladies to choose up their first win within the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup right here Sunday.
After successful the toss and opting to bat on the Dubai Worldwide Stadium, Scotland was undermined by spinner Afy Fletcher and pacer Chinelle Henry and will solely stand up to 99 for eight on the finish of 20 overs.
West Indies then survived some nervous moments within the early a part of their chase earlier than settling all the way down to rapidly overhaul their goal, ending on 101 for 4 in 11.4 overs.
Whereas the Caribbean facet produced a sterling bowling effort, their fielding left a lot to be desired as they put down beneath three regulation catches.
Sadly for captain Hayley Matthews, three of these catches have been dropped off her bowling.
Matthews spurned a tough probability at first slip when she failed to carry on to an outdoor edge supplied by Sarah Bryce off the bowling of Henry from the third ball of the innings.
It didn’t show pricey, although, as Matthews had Saskia Horley caught at mid-on for 11 to seize her a centesimal T20 wicket, and shortly after Henry bowled Bryce for 2 to go away Scotland 13 for 2 within the third over.
Ailsa Lister ought to have been dismissed with out scoring, however Chedean Nation spilled the only of catches at level off the bowling of Matthews.
The very subsequent ball, Matthews might solely cowl her face in disbelief as Fletcher dropped Lister at sq. leg.
Fortunately for the West Indies, Lister and captain Kathryn Bryce struggled to get the ball off the sq. throughout their 10-over 46-run partnership for the third wicket.
Henry was particularly spectacular throughout that spell, bowling two maidens whereas permitting simply 10 runs from her 4 overs.
The pacer was, nevertheless, responsible of dropping a simple catch operating in from long-on after Hear skied a supply from Matthews.
Fletcher’s introduction broke the partnership, as she had Lister caught on the deep midwicket boundary by Karishma Ramharack for 26 from 33 deliveries.
She trapped Priyanaz Chatterji lbw along with her subsequent ball as Scotland slid to 59 for 4 within the thirteenth over.
Fletcher additionally accounted for Bryce, who made 25 from 31 balls, when her miscued pull solely made it so far as mid-on the place Ramharack took the catch.
Lorna Jack-Brown was run out with no run added to make it 76 for six within the fifteenth over, and Scotland solely scored 23 runs from the final 5 overs.
Going through a simple chase, West Indies have been setback early when Rachel Slater bowled a hobbling Stafanie Taylor for 4 within the first over.
Qiana Joseph was fortunate to not be again within the pavilion with out scoring when she was dropped at mid-off.
Matthews’ lean scoring run within the World Cup continued, with Chatterji having her caught at mid-on for simply eight, because the Windies fell to 32 for 2 within the sixth over.
When Olivia Bell eliminated Shemaine Campbelle for 2 and Joseph for 31 in fast succession, West Indies had slipped to 59 for 4.
Nevertheless, Deandra Dottin and Participant-of-the-Match Henry got here collectively in an unbroken 42-run partnership for the fifth wicket to information West Indies to victory.
Dottin completed the competition in type by clobbering spinner Abtaha Maqsood for 2 sixes and a 4 within the twelfth over.
She ended unbeaten on 28 from 15 balls, whereas Henry scored 18 not out from 10 balls.
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