West Indies Captain Hayley Matthews struck 11 fours in a top score of 78 from 59 ballsPhoto: AFP
KARACHI, Pakistan (CMC) — West Indies Women won their five-match Twenty20 International (T20I) series against hosts Pakistan Women 4-1 after another Player-of-the-Match innings from their captain Hayley Matthews enabled them to close out with a resounding eight-wicket win on Friday.
The 26-year-old Barbadian all-rounder struck 11 fours in a top score of 78 from 59 balls and the Caribbean side successfully chased 135 in the final match of the series that was exclusively played at the National Stadium.
She ended with a series-high 205 runs at an average of 41 with her score on Friday being the highest in the five innings that she played, and she finished with seven wickets — the second highest for her side behind eight for leg-spinner Afy Fletcher — and collected them at 15.28 apiece to make her a shoo-in for the Player-of-the-Series prize.
Matthews shared 103 for the second wicket with his deputy Shemaine Campbelle who carried the visitors to 37 for one after the Power Play, 82 for one at the mid-point of the innings, and 117 for one with five overs remaining.
West Indies Women firmly on course to win when left-arm spinner Nashra Sandhu bowled Matthews with seven required from 15 balls.
Campbelle was not out on 33, and teenaged left-handed all-rounder Zaida James came to the crease and knocked off the remaining runs, finishing the match with a boundary, to bring the highly successful tour for the Caribbean side to close.
The visitors won all but one of the preceding seven international matches on the trip — the first three T20Is by margins of one run, seven wickets, and two runs, and the preceding three ICC Women’s Championship One-day Internationals — before they stumbled to an eight-wicket loss on Thursday in the fourth T20I.
SCOREBOARD
Pakistan Women
Ayesha Zafar b Joseph 22
Cider Ameen st Campbelle b Fletcher 48
Muneeba Ali b Fletcher 25
*Nida Dar c Henry b Fletcher 2
Gul Feroza run out 4
Fatima Sana c James b Alleyne 0
Natalia Pervaiz c Williams b Joseph 5
†Najiha Alvi c Fletcher b Matthews 2
Rameen Shamim not out 16
Nashra Sandhu not out 1
Extras (lb1, w8) 9
Total (8 wkts, 20 overs) 134
Sadia Iqbal did not bat.
Fall of wickets: 1-38 (Ayesha Zafar, 4.6 overs); 2-84 (Muneeba Ali, 12.2); 3-86 (Nida Dar, 12.6); 4-101 (Gul Feroza, 15.1); 5-101 (Fatima Sana, 15.2); 6-109 (Natalia Pervaiz, 16.3); 7-116 (Najiha Alvi, 17.4 ov); 8-121 (Sidra Ameen, 18.5).
Bowling: Wilmott 1-0-13-0 (w2); Fraser 2-0-12-0; Alleyne 4-0-33-1 (w3); Joseph 4-0-26-2 (w1); Matthews 4-0-24-1 (w1); Fletcher 4-0-17-3 (w1); James 1-0-8-0.
West Indies Women
*H Matthews b Nashra Sandhu 78
R Williams c Gul Feroza b Sadia Iqbal 16
†S Campbelle not out 33
Z James not out 7
Extras (w2) 2
Total (2 wkts, 18.2 overs) 136
C Henry, A Alleyne, J Glasgow, A Fletcher, Q Joseph, C Fraser, K Wilmott did not bat.
Fall of wickets: 1-25 (Williams, 4.5 overs); 2-128 (Hayley Matthews, 17.3).
Bowling: Sadia Iqbal 4-0-24-1; Fatima Sana 3-0-25-0; Rameen Shamim 4-1-22-0 (w1); Nashra Sandhu 4-0-28-1 (w1); Nida Give 3.2-0-37-0.
Result: West Indies Women won by eight wickets (10 balls remaining).
Series: West Indies Women win five-match series 4-1.
Toss: West Indies Women.
Player-of-the-Match: H Matthews (West Indies).
Player-of-the-Series: H Matthews (West Indies).
Umpires: Faisal Afridi, Claire Polosak (Australia).
TV umpire: Farooq Ali Khan.
Match referee: Muhammad Javed.
Reserve umpire: Afia Amin.
