BAS­SETERRE, St Kitts –On the back of an all-round ef­fort from Jan­nil­lea Glas­gow, the West In­dies women, mi­nus cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews and vice-cap­tain She­maine Camp­belle, brushed aside Bangladesh by five wick­ets in the third and fi­nal T20I here at Warn­er Park in St. Kitts on Fri­day.

The vic­to­ry en­sured that the re­gion­al women se­cured the se­ries 3-0 af­ter the home side got the 105 runs need­ed for the loss of five wick­ets in 18.3 overs.

With reg­u­lar cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews un­well and not in the play­ing eleven and She­maine Camp­bell re­turn­ing to her home­land Guyana for per­son­al rea­sons, stand-in cap­tain Kar­ish­ma Ramhar­rack de­cid­ed to field af­ter win­ning the toss.

The home side had to wait un­til the fourth over to get a break­through, as seam­er Glas­gow had open­er Mur­shi­da Khatun caught for 13 with 24 runs on the board.

Glas­gow was at it again in the sixth over, this time she breached the de­fence of the oth­er Bangladeshi open­er Di­la­ra Ak­ter for 21.

When off-spin­ner Ash­mi­ni Mu­nis­ar had Sharmin Ak­ter caught by Ner­is­sa Crafton for 6 at 48 for three in the sev­enth over, the vis­i­tors found it dif­fi­cult from there on in to gain any mean­ing­ful mo­men­tum as wick­ets tum­bled at reg­u­lar in­ter­vals.

It took a brisk 33 from 43 balls from cap­tain Ni­gar Sul­tana Jo­ty to spruce up the vis­i­tor’s score as they inched over the 100-run mark in the fi­nal over of the in­nings.

Glas­gow would seal an im­pres­sive evening with the ball af­ter she claimed her third wick­et to fin­ish with three for 15 from her four overs.

In re­ply, the host made the chase look a lot hard­er than it was as they stut­tered to 26 for two in the sixth over. As she did with the ball, Glas­gow came up trumps with the bat, as she hit 25 from 28 balls with two fours, to set the home side back on track in the run chase.

When the hard-hit­ting De­an­dra Dot­tin fell for just 10 runs, and Glas­gow went soon af­ter, the West In­dies were at that stage 56-4 in the 11th over, how­ev­er, Shabi­ka Gajn­abi with 27 not out from 25 balls and Zai­da James with 14 not out from 22 balls, en­sured the home side would get over the line at 105-5, fol­low­ing their 44 run sixth wick­et stand.

SUM­MARISED SCORES

BANGLADESH WOMEN 104-8 in 20 overs ( Ni­gar Sul­tana Jo­ty 33, Di­la­ra Ak­ter 21; Jan­nil­lea Glas­gow 3-15) vs WEST IN­DIES WOMEN 105-5 in 18.3 overs (Shabi­ka Gajn­abi 27 not out, Jan­nil­lea Glas­gow 25, Zai­da James 14 not out; Fahi­ma Khatun 2-14, Sul­tana Khatun 2-30).

(CMC)