NORTH SOUND, An­tigua – Ell­yse Per­ry struck a sec­ond One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al hun­dred as Aus­tralia once again thrashed West In­dies to take an unas­sail­able 2-0 lead in their three-match ICC Women’s Cham­pi­onship se­ries at the Vi­vian Richards Crick­et Ground on Sun­day.

Opt­ing to bat first at the Vi­vian Richards Crick­et Ground, the Aussies piled up a mas­sive 308 for two off their 50 overs with the 28-year-old Per­ry stroking a mea­sured, un­beat­en 112 off 118 de­liv­er­ies.

Open­er Alyssa Healy struck a high tem­po 58 off 43 de­liv­er­ies while Ash­leigh Gard­ner (57 not out) and Beth Mooney (56) chipped in with half-cen­turies.

In re­ply, West In­dies nev­er threat­ened and sub­sided to 157 for eight off their 50 overs, to con­cede de­feat by 151 runs and the se­ries with a game re­main­ing.

Left-han­der Kyshona Knight top-scored with 32, debu­tant Shene­ta Grim­mond got 31 while rook­ie Shabi­ka Gajn­abi (22) and cap­tain Stafanie Tay­lor (21) got starts but failed to build.

The de­feat fol­lowed the heavy 178-run loss in the open­er at Coolidge Crick­et Ground last Thurs­day and left West In­dies hopes of mov­ing up the points ta­bles in tat­ters.

It was Healy who pun­ished West In­dies ear­ly on, smash­ing 10 fours and a six in a 56-run open­ing stand with cap­tain Rachael Haynes (13).

Healy added a fur­ther 37 for the sec­ond wick­et with Per­ry be­fore fi­nal­ly per­ish­ing in the 18th over but Per­ry then took charge of the in­nings, in­spir­ing a vi­tal un­bro­ken third wick­et stand – first with Mooney and then with Gard­ner.

Per­ry, who struck nine fours, first put on 129 with Mooney who struck five fours in an 81-ball knock be­fore re­tir­ing hurt.

Gard­ner then ar­rived to ac­cel­er­ate the part­ner­ship even fur­ther, belt­ing half dozen fours and three six­es in a 25-ball cameo to fire the Aussies past the the 300-run mark for the sec­ond straight game.

In re­ply, West In­dies lost their open­ers cheap­ly to be 30 for two in the 14th over and it was left to Knight and Tay­lor to re­store re­spectabil­i­ty in a 49-run, third wick­et part­ner­ship.

Nei­ther bats­man scored freely, Knight fac­ing 81 balls and count­ing three fours and Tay­lor hit­ting a soli­tary bound­ary in her 46-ball knock.

With the in­nings wan­der­ing, both fell in a 58-ball pe­ri­od which saw four wick­ets tum­ble for just 18 runs, and Gajn­abi and Grim­mond post­ed 59 for the sev­enth wick­et be­fore both de­part­ed in the fi­nal over.

SCORES

AUS­TRALIA WOMEN 308 for two off 50 overs (Ell­yse Per­ry 112 not out, Alyssa Healy 58, Ash­leigh Gard­ner 57 not out, Beth Mooney 56 not out)

WEST IN­DIES WOMEN 157 for eight off 50 overs (Kyshona Knight 32, Shene­ta Grim­mond 31, Shabi­ka Gajn­abi 22, Stafanie Tay­lor 21; Geor­gia Ware­ham 2-29)

(CMC)