Hayley Matthews of West Indies performs a shot throughout the first One-Day Worldwide cricket match towards Pakistan on the Nationwide Stadium in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021.
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West Indies Captain Hayley Matthews is hoping for a powerful end to the Ladies’s Huge Bash League, after failing to get among the many runs for Melbourne Renegades within the first 10 video games of the season.
The fitting-hander, who can be main Renegades for the marketing campaign, has gathered solely 139 runs from ten innings at a mean of just below 13, with a highest rating of 32 in a painful four-run loss to cross city rivals Melbourne Stars.
Within the outing at Junction Oval, Matthews slipped down the order to quantity 4 from her regular opening place, and now hopes the transfer can even pay dividends.
“It was good to get on the market and have a little bit of house and a little bit of time in the midst of the innings,” mentioned the 26-year-old cricketer.
“It will’ve been nice if I’d been capable of take it residence in the long run however on the similar time, it’s begin for me late on within the match.
“Hopefully I can kick on from right here and convey much more to the Renegades all through the tip of the season.”
Matthews’ struggles have mirrored these of the Renegades, the franchise having now misplaced eight straight video games and 9 of ten for the season.
They lie all-time low of the eight-team league with two factors, and with solely 4 video games remaining of their marketing campaign, have already been eradicated from qualifying for the championship recreation.
With their newest defeat coming by the hands of Stars, Matthews mentioned that outcome had been particularly painful.
