West Indies Ladies’s captain Hayley Matthews slammed an unimaginable 132 and led her facet within the highest profitable run chase of all-time in girls’s Twenty20 Internationals in opposition to hosts and world champions Australia Ladies on Monday.
The 25-year-old all-rounder cracked 20 fours and 5 sixes from 64 balls in a breath-taking assault on the Australian bowling, and the Caribbean facet efficiently chased 213 to safe a seven-wicket win within the second T20I at North Sydney Oval to stage the three-match collection 1-1.
It got here after Matthews took three for 36 from her allotted 4 overs along with her off-spin when Australia Ladies piled up 212 for six after they had been put in to bat and made her a shoo-in for a seventh straight Participant-of-the-Match award in T20s. Matthews, who made 99 not out within the first T20I on Sunday on the identical venue, adopted up with an explosive second T20I hundred that surpassed fellow Barbadian all-rounder Deandra Dottin for the very best rating on this format for West Indies Ladies.
Dottin held the file for the previous 13 years after her superb 112 not out off 40 balls in opposition to South Africa Ladies at Warner Park in St Kitts on the 2010 Ladies’s T20I World Cup that was the primary T20 hundred from a person or girl on the worldwide stage.

Matthews additionally took down one other Dottin file for probably the most runs in boundaries in a Ladies’s T20I, going previous her compatriot’s seven fours and 9 sixes in opposition to the Proteas in that World Cup innings in Basseterre.
Matthews carried her facet to inside attain of victory along with her dizzying batting, hitting Jess Jonassen for 4 consecutive fours within the penultimate over, earlier than the left-arm spinner bowled her behind her again with the penultimate ball of the identical over.
West Indies wanted 9 from the final seven balls of the match, and Chinelle Henry and Shemaine Campbelle, each not out on 4, made certain that the efforts of Matthews and Taylor weren’t ruined, scrambling two to long-on from the off-spin of Ashleigh Gardner to seal the end result with one ball left.