De­fend­ing 137 for five at the Mu­la­padu Crick­et Sta­di­um, the Caribbean side knocked over the hosts for 106 off 18.1 overs, to win their sec­ond game in three days and make up for the pain of their 3-0 white­wash in the pre­ced­ing one-day se­ries.

Sent in, West In­dies Women were again pro­pelled by cap­tain Stafanie Tay­lor who top-scored with 47 while vet­er­an De­an­dra Dot­tin stroked 35 and teenaged open­er Hay­ley Matthews, 27.

Seam­er Shikha Pandey was the best bowler with two for 29.

Matthews gave the in­nings im­pe­tus in a brisk 28-ball knock which in­clud­ed five fours but she and Brit­ney Coop­er (5) fell in the space of nine de­liv­er­ies to leave the vis­i­tors on 41 for two in the eighth over.

Tay­lor then ex­pert­ly an­chored two key part­ner­ship to en­sure West In­dies built a com­pet­i­tive to­tal. First, she put on 48 for the third wick­et with Dot­tin, who dom­i­nat­ed with a 21-ball cameo which in­clud­ed five bound­aries. Sec­ond­ly, she added a fur­ther 48 for the fourth wick­et with for­mer cap­tain Meris­sa Aguilleira whose 21 came from 17 balls and in­clud­ed two fours.

All told, Tay­lor faced 46 de­liv­er­ies and count­ed four fours.

In­dia Women then found them­selves in ear­ly trou­ble when they lost Sm­ri­ti Mand­hana cheap­ly for four off the fourth ball of the in­nings with the score on five and sev­er­al at­tempts to re­vive the in­nings failed.

Cap­tain Har­man­preet Kaur top-scored with a brisk 43 off 37 balls with a four and three six­es while Deep­ti Shar­ma chipped in with 24 from 21 balls, but the hosts strug­gled to put part­ner­ships to­geth­er.

Deep­ti Shar­ma added 24 for the sec­ond wick­et with Megh­na Singh (17) and an­oth­er 22 for the fourth with Kaur for the best stands of the in­nings.

When Deep­ti Shar­ma was caught and bowled by off-spin­ner Anisa Mo­hammed in the 11th over, In­dia Women were strug­gling on 59 for four, and Mo­hammed and Dot­tin com­bined to trig­ger a col­lapse which saw the last six wick­ets go down for 47 runs.

Mo­hammed fin­ished with three for 23 and seam­er Dot­tin picked up three for 24–in­clud­ing Kaur who was last out.

The fi­nal game of the se­ries is card­ed for to­mor­row.