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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Taylor, Dottin level series for West Indies Women

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COLOM­BO, Sri Lan­ka–Flu­ent half-cen­turies from the mar­quee pair of Stafanie Tay­lor and De­an­dra Dot­tin pow­ered West In­dies Women to a cru­cial eight-wick­et vic­to­ry over Sri Lan­ka Women in the sec­ond Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al here Mon­day, leav­ing both teams with all to play for in the third and de­ci­sive en­counter on Tues­day.

Chas­ing a mod­est 125 for vic­to­ry at the R Pre­madasa Sta­di­um, West In­dies Women reached their tar­get with sev­en de­liv­er­ies left in the con­test, to lev­el the se­ries 1-1, fol­low­ing their de­feat in Sat­ur­day's first game at the same venue.The win was or­ches­trat­ed by the team's two most ex­pe­ri­enced bats­men. Tay­lor, open­ing the bat­ting, stroked an un­beat­en 59 from 49 balls while Dot­tin, punch­ing at three, ham­mered 51 off 45 de­liv­er­ies.

When West In­dies Women lost teenag­er Hay­ley Matthews for sev­en at ten for one in the sec­ond over, Tay­lor and Dot­tin com­bined to add 101 for the sec­ond wick­et and steer the Caribbean side over the line.The right-hand­ed Tay­lor stroked eight fours in com­plet­ing her 16th T20I half-cen­tu­ry while Dot­tin gath­ered sev­en bound­aries en route to her eighth half-cen­tu­ry.

When she even­tu­al­ly fell in the 17th over, vic­to­ry was just 11 runs away and West In­dies Women eas­i­ly can­tered home, with Tay­lor end­ed the game with a four off left-arm seam­er Udeshi­ka Pra­bod­hani.Ear­li­er, Tay­lor set the stage for her fine all-round per­for­mance by tak­ing two for 20 with her prob­ing off-spin as Sri Lan­ka Women, opt­ing to bat first, fin­ished on 124 for five off their al­lot­ted overs.

Wick­et­keep­er Di­lani Surangi­ka top-scored with 30, cap­tain and open­er Chamari Jayan­gani got 27 while Shashikala Siri­war­dene chipped in with 26 and Nipuni Han­si­ka, 21.The hosts lost Ya­so­da Mendis for two in the sec­ond over to be 13 for one but Surangi­ka and Jayan­gani stitched up the in­nings in a 47-run sec­ond wick­et stand.

Surangi­ka faced 34 balls and count­ed three fours while Jayan­gani smashed five fours off 19 balls.When they both fell in the space of 16 balls, Siri­war­dene and Han­si­ka put on a fur­ther 36 for the fourth wick­et to bol­ster the in­nings.

CMC

SCORE­BOARD

Sri Lan­ka vs West In­dies

SRI LAN­KA WOMEN

C Jayan­gani c Hen­ry b Mo­hammed 27

Y Mendis st Aguilleira b Tay­lor 2

D Surangi­ka run out 30

S Siri­war­dene b Tay­lor 26

N Han­si­ka c King b Matthews 21

E Kaushalya not out 13

H Per­era not out 0

Ex­tras (lb2, w1, nb2) 5

TO­TAL (5 wk­ts, 20 overs) 124

Fall of wick­ets: 1-13 (Mendis), 2-60 (Jayan­gani), 3-71 (Surangi­ka), 4-107 (Han­si­ka), 5-124 (Siri­war­dene)

Bowl­ing: Munroe 1-0-10-0 (w1), Tay­lor 4-0-20-2, Smartt 2-0-18-0 (nb2), Mo­hammed 4-0-28-1, Fletch­er 2-0-14-0, Matthews 4-0-20-1, King 3-0-12-0.

WEST IN­DIES WOMEN

H Matthews b Pra­bod­hani 7

S Tay­lor not out 59

D Dot­tin c Siri­war­dene b Samud­di­ka 51

B Coop­er not out 6

Ex­tras (b1, w1) 2

TO­TAL (2 wK­ts, 18.5 overs) 125

Fall of wick­ets: 1-10 (Matthews, 1.5), 2-111 (Dot­tin)

Bowl­ing: S Weer­akkody 3-0-24-0, Pra­bod­hani 3.5-0-25-1 (w1), Samud­di­ka 4-0-33-1, Siri­war­dene 4-0-19-0, Ku­mari 4-0-23-0.

Re­sult: West In­dies Women won by eight wick­ets.

Se­ries: Three-match se­ries tied 1-1.

Toss: Sri Lan­ka Women.

Um­pires: R Kot­ta­hachchi, R Mar­ti­nesz. CMC


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