Matthews leads WI Ladies to warm-up win

A notable all-round efficiency from West Indies Ladies captain Hayley Matthews helped her aspect break their shedding sequence with a four-wicket win in a low-scoring ICC Ladies’s Twenty20 World Cup warm-up contest towards Sri Lanka Ladies on Wednesday.

The Barbadian all-rounder grabbed 3-17 from her allotted 4 overs and Afy Fletcher supported with 2-12 from her 4 overs, and the Windies Ladies dismissed the Sri Lankans for 107 of their second warm-up match on the Western Province Cricket Membership.

Batting nonetheless proved to be a problem for the Caribbean aspect, however Matthews adopted up with the highest rating of 46 from 48 balls, they usually efficiently chased the goal, however solely acquired over the end line with two balls remaining within the contest.

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“It was good to have an honest all-round efficiency from a private perspective,” Hayley Matthews advised CWI Media in a post-play interview.

“From a group facet, I feel the bowlers did a improbable job to limit them to 107, as we all know they’ve acquired a pair batters who can actually fireplace up.

“We nonetheless have areas to enhance on, however the win will little doubt give us a lift heading into our first official match towards England on Saturday.”

West Indies Ladies might be searching for an upset towards the English on the weekend at Boland Park in Paarl, after Heather Knight’s aspect embarrassed them in a sequence of One-day and Twenty20 Internationals within the Caribbean, after they swept all of the matches.

West Indies have been drawn in Group 2 alongside England, India, Pakistan, and Eire.

Newlands in Cape City, Boland Park in Paarl, and St George’s Park in Gqeberha are the host venues for the event, with each the semi-finals and the ultimate being performed on February 26 in Cape City.

The eighth version of the Ladies’s T20 World Cup will start on Friday when hosts South Africa face the Sri Lankans.

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