Matthews: Coming together as a group inspired the Windies

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The West Indies produced a whole team performance to get their ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 campaign back on track as they beat Scotland by six wickets.

A brilliant display with the ball saw them restrict Scotland to just 99 after electing to bat, and the 2016 champions then chased that down inside 12 overs.

Showing plenty of attacking intent throughout, it was Qiana Joseph (31) and Deandra Dottin (28 not out) who motored along in the chase, with the rapid victory enough to send West Indies top of Group B.

While they still have a lot of work to do to make the semi-finals, skipper Hayley Matthews was delighted with the performance.
She said: “We were able to go out as a group, restricting them to 99. Qiana Joseph was positive and Dottin finishing it off. We did pretty well the ball, limited the boundary balls. If we got ourselves in a secure position and then we would think about the net run-rate and we did that.

“We’ll take it one game at a time, next we have Bangladesh, if we win that and then against England to get into the semi-finals.”

Fittingly, on a day where it was the performance with both bat and ball that made the difference, it was all-rounder Chinelle Henry who was named Player of the Match.

She took one for 10 from her four overs, including two maidens, before joining Dottin late on for an unbeaten 18 in a quickfire 42-run partnership to see the Windies home.

Henry said: “I first want thank my teammates and coach. We wanted to give the team a good start, we got to get the net run-rate up.

“We figured the wicket was slow, batting was difficult, we had clear plan, we backed our skills and we executed. We have batters who can excel.”

Scotland have now lost two from two in the tournament, with games against England and South Africa to come.

And their captain, Kathryn Bryce, who scored 25, admitted that it was not easy to slow a West Indian batting line-up when they are hitting the ball cleanly.
She said: “It was a pretty tricky performance in field, with the firepower they have got. We needed to take half-chances and opportunities. it was tricky, we did not get off to a good start, we did not get any momentum in the middle. It gives the youngsters a good learning curve.”

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