When Hayley Matthews hit a scrumptious punch off the backfoot by means of the offside within the sixteenth over of West Indies’ run-chase, it was her seventeenth boundary of the evening and a becoming option to take her aspect previous the end line. A superb show of stroke-making from the Windies captain – 85 off 47 balls with 80 % of her runs coming by means of 4s – powered the guests to an enormous win within the second T20I towards India on the DY Patil Stadium on Tuesday. Chasing 160 to win, Matthews led from the entrance as West Indies completed with 9 wickets in hand and 26 balls to spare.
“She needs to be the woman below stress on a regular basis. That’s when she’s at her greatest I feel,” West Indies’ new coach Shane Deitz had stated in the course of the T20 World Cup the place she led the workforce to the semifinals.
And she or he took up the accountability of bringing her workforce again to the collection in some type.
Standing in for Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana misplaced the toss and West Indies made probably the most of some moisture on the pitch early on to limit India’s batting cost. The transfer to have Deandra Dottin bowling within the powerplay proved to be a masterstroke as she bowled 2 overs within the first six, conceded simply 7 runs and picked up the wicket of Uma Chetry in her first over. India may handle simply 35/2 within the powerplay and had misplaced the wicket of in-form Jemimah Rodrigues too. India scored 100 runs within the final 10 overs and that was only a signal of what was to come back within the second half.
Large-hitting Qiana Joseph and Matthews broke the run-chase within the powerplay, smashing 62 runs from overs 2 to six, with 11 fours and two sixes between them. India’s bowlers had been wayward within the powerplay. Titas Sadhu struggled together with her radar, conceding 18 runs within the 2nd over. Renuka Singh Thakur and Deepti Sharma’s two overs went for 18 and 21 runs because the left-handed Joseph was particularly aggressive in clearing her entrance foot and peppering the boundary strains.
Even when Joseph fell, Matthews didn’t take the foot off the pedal, displaying why she is among the greatest on the earth sq. of the wicket: 11 of her 17 fours got here between level and canopy on the offside (5), and sq. leg and midwicket on the leg aspect (6). It additionally signified India’s troubles in holding a gradual line and size, as they leaked boundaries on each side of the pitch.
Mandhana steps up
With the bat, it was as soon as once more Mandhana stepping up as she scored back-to-back half-centuries on this collection. She had some luck on the evening with Windies dropping some catches however her 62 off 41 balls turned a platform for Richa Ghosh to come back within the backend and assist her aspect to achieve 159/9 with some crisp hitting in a while. However Dottin’s sensible day on the sector obtained higher within the nineteenth over when she bowled a positive yorker to have Richa caught behind. The star allrounder who got here again from retirement earlier than this 12 months’s World Cup, had earlier pulled off a shocking save at lengthy on to stop a six and later took a panoramic diving catch whereas operating in from lengthy on. She bowled 14 dot balls in her spell of two/14 and India simply couldn’t put her below any stress.
“The situations modified massively after the Seventh-Eighth over of the primary innings after which I feel they batted brilliantly nicely,” Mandhana stated after the match. “There was just a little little bit of moisture on the wicket early on, and the sort of batting we may do within the first half of the earlier recreation, the identical photographs weren’t coming off right this moment. Our execution of the plans with the ball may have been higher. Dew wasn’t there as a lot within the first 10 overs of their fielding and impulsively there was quite a bit. However we will’t complain about that, we all know will probably be an element, we simply need to put our palms up and know the place to bowl in such situations.”
Transient rating: India 159/9 (Mandhana 62, Ghosh 32, Dottin 2/14) misplaced to WI 160/1 (Matthews 85*, Joseph 38, Thakor 1/28)
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