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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Magical Dottin inspires WI victory

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SYL­HET–The mer­cu­r­ial De­an­dra Dot­tin pro­duced one of her mo­ments of bril­liance, rock­ing Eng­land Women with an in­ci­sive spell to set up a nine-run vic­to­ry, as West In­dies Women made a win­ning start to their World Twen­ty20 cam­paign here yes­ter­day.

De­fend­ing a mod­er­ate 133 for sev­en at the Syl­het Sta­di­um, West In­dies re­strict­ed Eng­land to 124 for nine, with Dot­tin snatch­ing a ca­reer-best four for 12 from four out­stand­ing overs of seam.

With cap­tain Char­lotte Ed­wards an­chor­ing the run chase, Eng­land seemed to be en route to vic­to­ry at 80 for two in the 12th over but Dot­tin's spell spec­tac­u­lar­ly turned the game on its head.

She quick­ly knocked over Ed­wards for 44 off 37 balls as Eng­land lost five wick­ets for 17 runs in quick time, to lose their way. Re­quir­ing 18 from the last over, Eng­land got a four from the first ball but then lost two wick­ets, as any hopes of vic­to­ry dis­ap­peared.

Ear­li­er, Stafanie Tay­lor top scored with 56 from 45 balls and Ky­cia Knight, 43 from 42 de­liv­er­ies, as they got the Windies Women up and run­ning with an open­ing stand of 87, af­ter be­ing sent in.

The pro­lif­ic Tay­lor stroked three fours and two six­es off 45 balls while Knight, the more se­date of the two, faced 42 balls with an iden­ti­cal bound­ary count to that of Tay­lor's.

West In­dies were kept qui­et in the open­ing overs be­fore Tay­lor broke the shack­les by clear­ing the ropes with Anya Shrub­sole off the fi­nal de­liv­ery of the third over.

They kept the score­board tick­ing over, up­ping the ante in the 11th over when both bats­men cleared the bound­aries with 19-year-old left-arm pac­er Jodie Dib­ble, in an over that cost 14 runs.

Once Knight fell to seam­er Jen­ny Gunn in the 13th over, how­ev­er, West In­dies in­nings went in­to ter­mi­nal de­cline. Tay­lor and Dot­tin struck a few lusty blows in adding 21 from 14 de­liv­er­ies for the sec­ond wick­et, but Dot­tin's demise for nine in the 15th over saw the Windies lose six wick­ets for 29 runs.

Seam­er Na­tal­ie Sciv­er was Eng­land's best bowler with three for 18.

Eng­land then got a strong start from the ex­pe­ri­enced duo of Ed­wards and Sarah Tay­lor (17), rac­ing to 42 off 32 balls. Even when Tay­lor was run out through good work from Dot­tin and Ly­dia Green­way (14) fol­lowed at 63 for two in the eighth over, Eng­land were still in the hunt as Ed­wards stood firm.

How­ev­er, Dot­tin en­tered the at­tack in the 12th over of the in­nings and had im­me­di­ate suc­cess when she bowled Sciv­er for sev­en with her fifth de­liv­ery.

She then struck with the first ball of her next over, re­mov­ing the dan­ger­ous Tam­my Beau­mont for two but it was with the fi­nal ball of her third over that she got the big break­through, hav­ing Ed­wards caught at the wick­et at 94 for five.

Two more quick strikes saw Eng­land fur­ther stum­ble to 97 for sev­en in the 18th over, and West In­dies then held their nerve to for­malise the re­sult.

Their next match to­mor­row is against host na­tion Bangladesh. CMC

score­board

WEST IN­DIES WOMEN

Ky­cia Knight c Shrub­sole b Gunn 43

S Tay­lor c Gunn b Sciv­er 56

D Dot­tin c Shrub­sole b Sciv­er 9

Kyshona Knight b Sciv­er 2

M Aguilleira st Tay­lor b Shrub­sole 11

S Camp­belle b Grundy 1

S Quin­tyne not out 4

S Da­ley b Shrub­sole 0

A Mo­hammed not out 1

Ex­tras (lb2, w4) 6

TO­TAL (7 wk­ts, 20 overs) 133

Did not bat: T Smartt, S Sel­man.

Fall of wick­ets: 1-87 (Ky­cia A Knight, 12.3 overs), 2-108 (Dot­tin, 14.5), 3-113 (Kyshona Knight, 16.3), 4-115 (Tay­lor, 16.5), 5-116 (Camp­belle, 17.3), 6-129 (Aguilleira, 19.1), 7-129 (Da­ley, 19.2)

Bowl­ing: Shrub­sole 4-0-25-2, Hazell 4-0-23-0, Grundy 4-0-20-1, Dib­ble 2-0-21-0, Gunn 3-0-24-1, Sciv­er 3-0-18-3.

ENG­LAND WOMEN

C Ed­wards c wkp Aguilleira b Dot­tin 44

S Tay­lor run out 17

L Green­way b Da­ley 14

N Sciv­er b Dot­tin 7

T Beau­mont b Dot­tin 2

H Knight c Camp­belle b Smartt 6

J Gunn lbw b Dot­tin 2

D Hazell not out 11

A Shrub­sole run out 10

J Dib­ble b Sel­man 0

R Grundy not out 1

Ex­tras (b4, w6) 10

TO­TAL (9 wk­ts, 20 overs) 124

Fall of wick­ets: 1-42 (Tay­lor, 5.2 overs), 2-63 (Green­way, 8), 3-80 (Sciv­er, 11.5), 4-84 (Beau­mont, 13.1), 5-94 (Ed­wards, 16), 6-96 (Knight, 16.4), 7-97 (Gunn, 17.2), 8-120 (Shrub­sole, 19.2), 9-120 (Dib­ble, 19.3)

Bowl­ing: Da­ley 2-0-28-1, Smartt 3-0-25-1, Sel­man 4-0-22-1, Quin­tyne 3-0-7-0, Mo­hammed 4-0-26-0, Dot­tin 4-1-12-4.

Re­sult: West In­dies Women won by nine runs.

Points: West In­dies Women 2, Eng­land Women 0.

Toss: Eng­land.

Play­er-of-the-Match: De­an­dra Dot­tin.

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