LONDON, CMC—West Indies Ladies’s captain Hayley Matthews lashed a career-best half-century within the Hundred as Welsh Fireplace accomplished their highest-ever run chase within the competitors to beat London Spirit by six wickets at Lord’s on Thursday.
Requested to chase 151 to win their second sport, Fireplace overhauled their goal with 5 balls remaining. The 26-year-old top-scored with a superb unbeaten 78 off 46 deliveries in a Participant-of-the-Match efficiency.
Dropped on 36, the trendy right-hander made the prospect rely, hammering 11 fours and two sixes and dominating the Spirit bowling.
Coming into at quantity three, Matthews noticed Fireplace slip to 33 for 2 earlier than inspiring stands of 47 for the third wicket with wicketkeeper Sarah Bryce (21), 43 for the fourth wicket with Jess Jonassen (14), and 28 in an unbroken fifth-wicket partnership with Phoebe Franklin (six not out).
Matthews raised her fifty from 37 balls with consecutive boundaries off leg-spinner Sarah Glenn and took Fireplace over the road with back-to-back fours off off-spinner Deepti Sharma.
Earlier, the beforehand unbeaten Spirit rallied to 150 for 5 off their 100 deliveries after being despatched in, Danielle Gibson hitting 41 from 25 balls and Deepti scoring an unbeaten 39 from 26 deliveries.
Collectively, they posted 67 for the fifth wicket after opener Meg Lanning struck 31 from 20 balls to energy a 49-run second-wicket partnership with Cordelia Griffith (17).
Gibson counted a half-dozen fours and a six whereas Deepti struck two fours and two sixes to maintain Spirit’s momentum in the direction of the top.
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