Deandra Dottin of West Indies hits a six throughout the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup Semi-Closing 2024 match between West Indies and New Zealand at Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Oct. 18, 2024 in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
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West Indies Ladies bowed out of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup once they misplaced by eight runs to New Zealand within the second semifinal on the Sharjah Cricket Stadium.
Whereas the West Indies produced a wonderful bowling effort to restrict New Zealand to 128 for 9 in 20 overs, with Deandra Dottin grabbing 4-22 from her 4 overs, they misplaced wickets at common intervals of their chase. They might solely muster 120 for eight from their 20 overs.
Dottin as soon as once more starred, top-scoring with 33 runs from 22 balls, which included three large sixes.
With West Indies having to attain simply over six runs an over, New Zealand’s trio of Rosemary Mair, Fran Jonas, and Participant-of-the-Match Eden Carson stifled them from the start of the chase.
Qiana Joseph hit Carson for 2 fours within the fourth over however then misplaced her off stump, then Carson had Shemaine Campbelle caught for 3 because the West Indies limped to twenty for 2 at the beginning of the fifth over.
Carson then grabbed her third wicket when she clear bowled the skilled Stafanie Taylor for 13 runs from 20 balls, leaving West Indies stumbling on 41 for 3 within the ninth over.
Shortly after, captain Hayley Matthews skied a supply from Lea Tahuhu, the place Amelia Kerr took the catch at midwicket to be out for 15. Maddy Inexperienced took a superb catch to account for Aaliyah Alleyne for 4, with the workforce reaching 63 for 5 within the 14th over.
Dottin and Afy Fletcher then got here collectively in a 33-run partnership for the sixth wicket that might have swung the sport in West Indies’ favor.
Dottin smacked Tahuhu for 3 sixes within the sixteenth over that value 23 runs, and West Indies required 34 runs from 24 balls.
However quickly after, Amelia Kerr acquired Dottin to prime edge the place Jonas took a straightforward catch.
Zaida James and Fletcher did their finest, and with one over remaining, the West Indies wanted 15 runs.
James smacked off-spinner Suzie Bates’ first ball for 4, however after failing to make contact with the second ball, she was bowled off the third ball for 14, and the West Indies nonetheless required 11 runs.
New batter Ashmini Munisar might solely make one run off the fourth ball, and when Fletcher failed to attach with the penultimate ball, it gave New Zealand their first-ever T20 World Cup closing.
Earlier, openers Bates and Georgia Plimmer added 48 runs for the primary wicket in 9 overs.
Spinner Karishma Ramharack made the breakthrough when she bowled Bates for 26 from 28 balls earlier than Dottin eliminated Amelia Kerr for seven to go away the rating 65 for 2 within the twelfth over.
Dottin then bowled Brooke Halliday for 19, had Maddy Inexperienced caught behind for 3, and trapped Rosemary Mair LBW for 2 as New Zealand staggered to 104 for seven within the seventeenth over.
However Isabella Gaze scored an unbeaten 20 from 14 balls as New Zealand gathered 24 priceless runs from the final three overs, taking them to their successive complete.
