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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Fighting Windies women go under

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Aus­tralia held their nerve, re­strict­ing West In­dies to five runs in the fi­nal over, with 14 need­ed for vic­to­ry, as the Caribbean women fell short by eight runs in their semi­fi­nal clash at the Sher-e-Bangla Na­tion­al Sta­di­um in Mir­pur, yes­ter­day.

Chas­ing 141 runs for vic­to­ry, West In­dies need­ed 21 runs from the last two overs but big hit­ter De­an­dra Dot­tin fell in the process and the chase fiz­zled out.

With the West In­dies men's team on the bound­ary edge urg­ing them on, the West In­dies en­tered the fi­nal over bowled by Rene Far­rell need­ing 14 runs. They lost skip­per Mer­risa Aguilier­ra as she and Sta­cy Ann King could on­ly man­age sin­gles. Aus­tralia will now move on to the cham­pi­onship match where they will de­fend their ti­tle.

West In­dies got off to a good start with Ky­cia Knight and Stephanie Tay­lor post­ing 43 runs for the first wick­et off 7.1 overs. Both fell quick­ly with Tay­lor run out for 24 off 25 balls, and Knight mak­ing 21 off 26 balls.

King and Dot­tin brought West In­dies back in­to the con­test, tak­ing the score to 121 in a part­ner­ship of 73 runs from 67 balls.

How­ev­er, Dot­tin holed out to Erin Os­bourne on the mid­wick­et fence for 40, and the West In­dies mo­men­tum crashed. Dot­tin faced 35 balls and struck four fours and a six. King stayed to the end re­main­ing un­beat­en on 36 off 28 balls with four fours and a six.

Ear­li­er, West In­dies main­tained a stran­gle­hold on the nor­mal­ly free-scor­ing Aussies and had them 92 for five in the 16th over.

How­ev­er, Alyssa Healy, niece of for­mer Aus­tralian wick­et­keep­er Ian Healy, ham­mered an un­beat­en 30 off just 21 balls with four fours, to give the Aus­tralian score some re­spectabil­i­ty. El­yse Vil­lani at the top of the or­der top­scored with 35 off 32 balls in­clud­ing sev­en hits to the fence.

Pick of the West In­dies bowlers was Anisa Mo­hammed who grabbed 2/24, while Tay­lor took 1/19 off her four overs.

Dis­ap­point­ed West In­dies cap­tain Aguilleira said she was proud of her team's ef­fort. "We came to the semi­fi­nal and the girls did very well. We had a good tour of New Zealand be­fore this. The hope was al­ways there, we went out there and we on­ly fell eight short. Aus­tralia played a great match. It was a re­al­ly good ex­pe­ri­ence, es­pe­cial­ly play­ing in Syl­het.

"Hope­ful­ly we can keep our run con­tin­u­ing. We know the flag is still fly­ing high with the men's team and we are go­ing to stay back to sup­port them." (VM)

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SCORE­BOARD

WI vs Aus­tralia

Aus­tralia inns

E Vil­lani c Ky­cia Knight b Mo­hammed 35

J Jonassen run out 5

M Lan­ning b Smartt 29

E Per­ry c&b Tay­lor 8

A black­well not out 13

J Cameron lbw Mo­hammed 5

A Healy not out 30

Ex­tras b4, lb2, w7, nb2 15

To­tal 5 wk­ts, (20ovs) 140

Fall of wk­ts: 32, 48, 78, 83, 92.

Bowl­ing: T Smartt 4-0-28-1, S Da­ley 3-0-22-0, S Quin­tyne 4-0-29-0, A Mo­hammed 4-0-24-2, S Tay­lor 4-0-19-1, S Sel­man 1-0-12-0.

WI inns

K Knight b Os­borne 21

S Tay­lor run out 25

D Dot­tin c Os­borne b Coyte 40

S King not out 36

M Aguilleira c Jonassen b Far­rell 6

S Camp­belle not out 1

Ex­tras lb1, w3 4

To­tal 4 wk­ts (20) 132

Fall of wk­ts: 43, 48, 121, 130.

Bowl­ing: R Far­rell 3-0-25-1, J Jonassen 3-0-14-0, S Coyte 4-0-28-1, j Hunter 3-0-25-0, E Per­ry 3-0-21-0, E Os­bourne 4-0-18-1.

Re­sult: Aus­tralia won by eight runs.


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