It’s not for nothing that Hayley Matthews is rated so extremely in worldwide girls’s cricket. The West Indies captain led from the entrance on the DY Patil Stadium on Tuesday with an unbeaten 85 (47b, 17×4) as her staff cruised to a nine-wicket win towards India and drew stage within the three-match T20I sequence.
Shifting on from an embarrassing defeat within the sequence opener a few days in the past, West Indies batters put up a spirited present and chased down India’s tough whole of 159 for 9 with out breaking a sweat. With dew settling in, the Indian bowlers struggled to seek out breakthroughs and making a lot of the reprieves, Matthews and Qiana Joseph cast a gap stand off 66, which set the tone.
With Harmanpreet Kaur lacking out on the fixture on account of a dodgy knee, stand-in captain Smriti Mandhana explored each doable possibility by way of rotating the bowlers, however nothing clicked as Matthews checked out ease, en path to her fifteenth fifty in T20Is. Whereas she initially anchored the innings, Joseph went on a rampage – hammering three fours and a six in Titas Sadhu’s opening over. Approaching the again of a three-wicket haul within the earlier recreation, the expectations had been excessive from the younger medium quick bowler, however her confidence took a beating because the West Indies openers toyed together with her.
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Matthews, too, flexed her muscle tissue quickly as she took Renuka Singh Thakur to the cleaners, making certain the staff ended the powerplay with out shedding a wicket for 65. Though Saima Thakor claimed her maiden wicket in T20Is, dismissing Joseph, shortly after the powerplay, Matthews held fort and constructed one other unbeaten 94-run partnership with Shemaine Campbelle (29 n.o., 26b; 4×4). Because the wicket eased out, the batters from the visiting staff took issues of their stride and dashed India’s hopes of gaining an unassailable lead within the sequence.
Regardless of the defeat within the final recreation, West Indies caught to its previous technique and as soon as once more opted to area after profitable the toss. And this time round, the transfer paid off because it bowled phenomenally with the brand new ball and managed to cut back India to 48 for 3 within the ninth over. Though Mandhana stood agency and cashed in on the three dropped catches to attain 62 off 41 deliveries, top-order batters let India down as Uma Chetry, Jemimah Rodrigues and debutant Raghvi Bist didn’t get going.
Even the transfer to raise Deepti Sharma didn’t work. Nevertheless, West Indies slipped up with some sloppy fielding and poor bowling in direction of the tip allowed Richa Ghosh to punished it with a 17-ball-32-run cameo to place up a aggressive whole for her facet. However in the long run, that wasn’t ample.