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Monday, July 14, 2025

Matthews second century spearheads WI whitewash

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Sport Desk
446 days ago
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West Indies Women’s captain Hayley Matthews...scored her second century of the series. (file photo)

West Indies Women’s captain Hayley Matthews...scored her second century of the series. (file photo)

KARACHI – Cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews carved out her sec­ond hun­dred of the se­ries as West In­dies Women com­plet­ed their white­wash of Pak­istan Women with an 88-run vic­to­ry in the fi­nal One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al in Pak­istan on Tues­day.

Choos­ing to bat first at Na­tion­al Bank Sta­di­um, the right-hand­ed open­er lashed 141 off 149 de­liv­er­ies to pow­er her side up to 278 for six off their 50 overs.

For­mer cap­tain Stafanie Tay­lor chipped in with 47 off 62 balls while vice-cap­tain She­maine Camp­belle struck 38 off 58 de­liv­er­ies.

Matthews then weighed in with her off-spin, fin­ish­ing with two for 26 to help lim­it the hosts to 190 all out in the 48th over, seam­er Aaliyah Al­leyne (2-10) and off-spin­ner Tay­lor (2-29) al­so claim­ing two wick­ets each.

Munee­ba Ali top-scored with 38 from 58 balls while Aliya Ri­az struck 36 from 41 balls but Pak­istan lost wick­ets steadi­ly and failed to build part­ner­ships.

The re­sult came against the back­drop of the vis­i­tors’ 113-run win in the open­er and their nar­row two-wick­et vic­to­ry in the sec­ond ODI, help­ing them com­plete a sec­ond straight ODI clean sweep away to Pak­istan.

Matthews, who struck 140 not out in the first game and 44 in the sec­ond, end­ed with 325 runs at an av­er­age of 162.5, while tak­ing six wick­ets at 14 runs apiece to be ad­judged Play­er-of-the-Match and Play­er-of-the-Se­ries.

“Our goal in this se­ries was to come out here and try to get six [ICC Cham­pi­onship] points so we’re re­al­ly hap­py that as a group we were able to come out there and do that,” Matthews said.

“And on top of that, the way we were able to win the games – how con­vinc­ing it was – just adds some­thing else on­to it as well.”

The 26-year-old an­chored a se­ries of part­ner­ships which got West In­dies up to their sec­ond 250-plus to­tal of the se­ries.

She put on 37 for the first wick­et with Rasha­da Williams (9), 93 for the sec­ond with Camp­belle and a fur­ther 111 with Tay­lor.

All told Matthews struck 19 fours and brought up her sixth ODI hun­dred off 117 de­liv­er­ies with a sin­gle to mid on at the start of the 39th over.

She was part of a clus­ter of three wick­ets which went down for nine runs as West In­dies Women tried to up the tem­po to­wards the back end, caught at deep mid-wick­et in the 47th over from seam­er Fa­ti­ma Sana (2-67).

West In­dies Women then made ear­ly break­throughs, Sadaf Shamas play­ing on to medi­um pac­er Chinelle Hen­ry for 10 in the sixth over and open­ing part­ner Sidra Ameen miss­ing an in­swinger and hav­ing her stumps rat­tled for nine by speed­ster Shamil­ia Con­nell in the next over.

Tot­ter­ing on 22 for two, the hosts were lift­ed by Munee­ba and the ex­pe­ri­enced Bis­mah Ma­roof (19), the pair post­ing 45 for the third wick­et.

When Bis­mah edged a dri­ve off off-spin­ner Kar­ish­ma Ramharack and was tak­en at slip by Matthews in the 19th over, Pak­istan Women wob­bled again and quick­ly found them­selves on 95 for five in the 28th over.

Ri­az, who belt­ed three fours and a six, tried to ral­ly the chase in a 41-run, sixth-wick­et part­ner­ship with Fa­ti­ma Sana (23) but once the lat­ter drove Tay­lor low to Hen­ry at mid on, the in­nings col­lapsed again.

CMC

Scores:

WEST IN­DIES WOMEN 278 for sev­en off 50 overs (Hay­ley Matthews 141, Stafanie Tay­lor 47, She­maine Camp­belle 38; Nashra Sand­hu 3-54)

PAK­ISTAN WOMEN 190 off 47.5 overs (Munee­ba Ali 38, Aliya Ri­az 36, Tu­ba Has­san 23, Fa­ti­ma Sana 23; Aaliyah Al­leyne 2-10, Hay­ley Matthews 2-26, Stafanie Tay­lor 2-29).

West In­dies Women won by 88 runs.


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