West Indies’ Stafanie Taylor in motion towards Pakistan through the Ladies’s Cricket World Cup in Leicester, Britain, July 11, 2017.
Motion Photographs through Reuters / Jason Cairnduff
Trinbago Knight Riders girls (TKR-W) had been defeated by six runs by the Guyana Amazon Warriors within the opening match of the 2025 Massy Ladies’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL) T20 at Windfall Stadium in Guyana.
Batting first, the Warriors girls scored 129/7 from their 20 overs however saved the TKR-W batters at bay with their aggressive bowling assault and restricted the guests to 123/9.
Stafanie Taylor, 45, and Raeleanna Grimmond, 33, placed on a 70-run partnership for the Warriors after dropping opener Amy Hunter for 3, eight balls into the innings.
Taylor smashed 5 fours and one six whereas Grimmond belted 4 fours and one six, Chedean Nation scored 21 from 15 balls, whereas Australian right-hander Laura Harris made 14.
Topping the bowling for TKR-W was Australian left-arm spinner Jessica Jonassen, who bagged 2/18, Samara Ramnath chipped in with 1/19, Jahzara Claxton with 1/24, and Shikha Pandey with 1/29.
In reply, the TKR-W had a powerful begin from opener Lizelle Lee with 36. Nonetheless, Rashada Williams didn’t do properly and solely made one from 14 powerplay deliveries.
Jonassen (22) and Lee contributed a 40-run stand to take TKR-W to 65/2. However after Jonassen perished, the Knight Riders discovered it onerous to construct dependable partnerships.
Skipper Deandra Dottin (14) and Claxton (15) added a couple of additional runs. Nonetheless, solely single-digit scores got here from the remaining batters as TKR-W wanted 16 runs from the ultimate over. Nonetheless, they didn’t have what it takes to get them over the road.
Guyanese off-spinner Ashmini Muniar, with 3/21, was the main wicket taker for the Warriors. On the similar time, Harris, with 3/25, contributed a surprisingly uncommon spell, which reaped nice rewards. Karishma Ramharack had 1/22.
