Rising Stars wrap up inaugural World Cup with defeat

West Indies Girls Rising Stars completed their marketing campaign on the inaugural ICC Underneath-19 Girls’s Twenty20 World Cup with a heavy defeat, when England whipped them by 95 runs.

Of their remaining Super6 recreation at Senwes Park Wednesday, the Caribbean unit discovered a goal of 180 a mountain too excessive to climb and stuttered to 84 for eight off their 20 overs.

Center order batsman Djenaba Joseph was the stand-out, punching an unbeaten 44 from 42 deliveries with half-dozen fours however she was the one one to cross 20 as Participant-of-the-Match, quick bowler Ellie Anderson, scythed by way of the innings to complete with 5 for 12.

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The defeat was the third on the trot for the Rising Stars, approaching the again of a robust begin to the group stage once they gained their opening two matches.

“It undoubtedly didn’t finish how we needed it to however I undoubtedly loved South Africa and the event was distinctive,” stated West Indies Girls Underneath-19s captain, Ashmini Munisar.

“For me and my teammates, we thought that it was a useful expertise coming right here to the primary ever [Under-19 Women’s] World Cup and being pioneers.”

Selecting to bat first, England benefited from a prime rating of 53 from their captain Grace Scrivens, the left-hander punching 5 fours and two sixes in a 44-run opening stand with Liberty Heap (13) after which in a 56-run, second wicket stand with Niamh Holland (21).

West Indies’ most interesting interval got here once they snatched three wickets for 31 runs within the area of 23 balls to scale back the English to 131 for 4 within the sixteenth over, Munisar (2-32) putting twice together with her off-spin.

Nonetheless, Charis Pavely smacked a 16-ball unbeaten 29 and Seren Smale, a 19-ball unbeaten 28, in a strong unbroken 48-run, sixth wicket stand to revive the innings.

Left-arm seamer Alexa Stonehouse (2-15) then struck twice early on to scale back West Indies to 23 for 4 on the finish of the seventh over, successfully crushing their hopes of a severe problem.

Joseph propped up the innings in a 47-run, fifth wicket stand with Asabi Callender (17) however by the point the latter perished on the finish of the sixteenth over, the required run fee had climbed to 27 and an English victory was assured.

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