BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – West In­dies Women end­ed the year on a low note when they bat­ting spec­tac­u­lar­ly col­lapsed, and Eng­land Women won by a con­vinc­ing eight wick­ets on Thurs­day to sweep their Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries.

De­cid­ing to bat in the fi­nal match of the se­ries at the icon­ic Kens­ing­ton Oval, the Windies Women were bowled out for an all-time low of 43 in 16.2 overs, and Eng­land hard­ly broke a sweat suc­cess­ful­ly chas­ing the tar­get of 44.

Teenag­er De­jan­a­ba Joseph, play­ing on­ly her fourth T20I, was the on­ly bats­man in the Caribbean side that reached dou­ble fig­ures with Freya Davies end­ing with the flat­ter­ing fig­ures of 3-2 from 2.2 overs, and fel­low pac­er Al­ice David­son-Richards tak­ing a ca­reer-best 3-5 from two overs.

“I think we need to look at the pos­i­tives from the se­ries,” West In­dies Women’s cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews said.

“It’s re­al­ly good to have the young­sters join­ing the squad, and it’s go­ing to be a big im­prove­ment in bol­ster­ing our squad and get­ting the ex­pe­ri­ence. Yes, the se­ries didn’t go our way, but I be­lieve this is the start of some­thing good.”

The Windies Women’s bats­men have strug­gled through­out this se­ries, and the pre­ced­ing One-day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries in which they were swept 3-0.

The home team laboured to 16 for four af­ter the Pow­er Play, hit on­ly two bound­aries in the in­nings, and nev­er looke like­ly to se­ri­ous­ly chal­lenge the Eng­lish, all signs that will wor­ry head coach Court­ney Walsh ahead of the ICC Women’s Twen­ty20 World Cup next Feb­ru­ary 10 to 26 in South Africa.

SCORES

WEST IN­DIES WOMEN 43 all out off 16.2 overs (Freya Davies 3-2, Al­ice David­son-Richards 3-5, Char­lie Dean 2-8).

ENG­LAND WOMEN 44 for two off 5.3 overs (Nat Sciv­er 20 not out).