Ireland Women vs West Indies Women: In the ongoing Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa, the 13th match was played between Ireland and West Indies. In this match held on Friday, the West Indies team defeated Ireland by 6 wickets. In the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, the Windies team had to wait a long time for the first win. Earlier, the Caribbean team had lost in both the matches. At the same time, the team of Ireland failed to open the account of victory in the third match as well. Captain Hayley Mathews played an important role in winning the match to the West Indies.
Ireland scored 137 runs
In the match played at the Newlands Stadium in Cape Town, Ireland won the toss and decided to bat first. The team had a bad start and the first wicket fell for just 1 run. Amy Hunter, who came to start the innings, got out after scoring 1 run. However, later Gabby Lewis and Orla Prendergast shared a 90-run partnership to recover the team from the initial setback. Orla got out after scoring 61 runs. While Levin scored an inning of 38 runs. After this, if Emir Richardson is left in the middle order, then no other female batsman could cross the double figure. Richardson played an inning of 15 runs. In this way, Ireland’s team scored 137 runs at the loss of 9 wickets. Shamlia Connell took 3 wickets for West Indies.
Hayley Mathews played the captaincy innings
The start of the West Indies team, which came out to achieve the target of 138 runs for victory, was not very good. The team’s first wicket fell for 28 runs. Rashda Williams, who came to start the innings, was dismissed after scoring 17 runs. Shemen Campbell also could not do anything special and she returned to the pavilion after scoring 8 runs. After this, Haley Mathews shared a half-century partnership with Chinelle Henry to take the team to victory. Mathews scored an unbeaten 66 while playing the captaincy innings. West Indies achieved the target of victory in 19.4 overs. Hayley Mathews, who scored a half-century, was given the ‘Player of the Match’ award.
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