Easy for Windies women
The West Indies came up with a clinical performance
beat Bangladesh by 149 runs and consign it to its third straight defeat
in a Group-B match of the Womens’ World T20 here on Sunday.
Once
again, skipper Stafanie Taylor led from the front and, with able
support from fellow opener Hayley Matthews, helped West Indies post a
commanding total of 148. Taylor and Matthews set the platform with a
67-run partnership.
While they were stifled by the
spinners in their narrow victory over Pakistan, the West Indies batters
used their feet to clear the slow outfield against the Bangladesh
attack.
Later, power hitter Deandra Dottin upped the
rate with a 11-ball 24 that included three boundaries off a single over
from leggie Rumana Ahmed.
When Bangladesh chased,
opener Sanjida Islam promised some early fireworks with few boundaries.
But she was dismissed by a brilliant piece of fielding; Dottin produced a
superb one-handed catch on the boundary.
Off-spinners
Taylor and Matthews then stifled the chase in the middle overs. A
partnership seemed to be developing between Fargana Hoque and Salma
Khatun for the third wicket, but that ended at 20 runs when the latter
was run-out.
After that, four wickets in the space of 15 runs sealed Bangladesh’s fate by the 14th over.
The scores:
West Indies 148 for four in 20 overs (Hayley Matthews 41, Stafanie
Taylor 40, Nahida Akter three for 27) bt Bangladesh 99 in 18.3 overs
(Nigar Sultan Joty 27, Stafanie Taylor three for 13, Hayley Matthews two
for 16, Deandra Dottin two for 17).
WIW 148/4 (20.0 Ovs)
BANW 99-all out (18.3 Ovs)
West Indies Women won by 49 runs
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