SOM­ER­SET, Eng­land, Jun 7, CMC –West In­dies Women end­ed their dis­mal tour of the UK with an­oth­er heavy de­feat, this time a nine-wick­et loss to Eng­land Women via the Duck­worth/Lewis/Stern method in the third and fi­nal Women’s One Day In­ter­na­tion­al here on Sat­ur­day.

The re­sult brought an end to a dis­ap­point­ing three-week tour where they were swept 3-0 by Eng­land Women in both the T20I and ODI se­ries.

The rain played a ma­jor role in the con­test at the Coop­er As­so­ciates Coun­ty Ground, which saw the match be­ing re­duced to 21-overs per side.

West In­dies Women were strug­gling at 43 for three in the 13th over when the heav­ens opened up and when play restart­ed af­ter a five-hour de­lay, they got up to 106 for eight from their 21 overs.

Eng­land’s cap­tain Nat Sciv­er-Brunt then hit an un­beat­en half cen­tu­ry at the top of the or­der as the home side rushed to 109 for one off on­ly 10.5 overs to wrap up the con­test.

Sciv­er-Brunt blud­geoned 57 from 33 balls with nine bound­aries, while Sophia Dunk­ley made 26 and Al­ice Capsey end­ed on 20 not out off 11 balls.

The re­sult was nev­er in doubt af­ter Dunk­ley and Sciv­er-Brunt blast­ed 40 runs from the first five overs.

Spin­ner Kar­ish­ma Ramharack trapped the for­mer lbw to break the part­ner­ship, but Capsey along with her skip­per added an un­beat­en 69 runs in just un­der six overs to en­sure there would be no fur­ther loss­es.

Brunt-Sciv­er brought up her 50 off 31 balls by hit­ting Ash­mi­ni Mu­nis­ar for four through cov­er, and she end­ed the match with the next de­liv­ery by pulling her through wide long on for an­oth­er bound­ary.

Ear­li­er, West In­dies Women, play­ing with­out their in­spi­ra­tional cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews for the sec­ond straight match, got off to a hor­rid start af­ter they were sent in to bat.

They lost Realean­na Grim­mond and Zai­da James for ducks, while Stafanie Tay­lor made just one as West In­dies slumped to four for three.

Qiana Joseph made 34 off 44 balls in her re­turn from the flu, but the vis­i­tors owed their even­tu­al to­tal to Aaliyah Al­leyne’s late cameo that got them in­to three fig­ures.

With them strug­gling at 75 for six with two overs re­main­ing, Al­leyne clob­bered Lau­ren Fil­er for five con­sec­u­tive bound­aries in the 20th over to breathe life back in­to the in­nings.

She was even­tu­al­ly dis­missed in the last over for 27 from 18 balls, in­clu­sive of six fours.

Sarah Glenn led Eng­land’s bowl­ing at­tack with 3-21, while Em Ar­lott took 2-15.

CMC

Brief scores

WEST IN­DIES WOMEN 106-8 in 21 overs (Qiana Joseph 34, Aaliyah Al­leyne 27, She­maine Camp­belel 18, Jahzara Clax­ton 11 not out; Sarah Glenn 3-21, Em Ar­lott 2-15) vs ENG­LAND WOMEN 109-1 in 10.5 overs (Nat Sciv­er-Brunt 57 not out, Sophia Dunk­ley 26, Al­ice Capsey 20 not out).

Eng­land Women won by nine wick­ets via the Duck­worth/Lewis/Stern method.