James cameos with bat but India take victory

EAST LONDON, South

Africa- Despite a valiant 34 from captain Hayley Matthews and 21 not out from debutant Zaida James, the West Indies Women fell toan8-wicketdefeattoIndia Women in their final preliminary match of the Women’s Tri-Series at BuffaloParkinEastLondon.

Battingfirst,WestIndies posted 94/6 from their 20 overs, Matthews top-scored with34(34)andZaidaJames addedavaluable21(31)not out. Deepti Sharma was the pick of the Indian bowlers with figures of 4-2-11-3 followed by PoojaVastrakar with4-1-19-2.Indiareached the 95-run target in 13.5 overs, with Jemima Rodrigueson42(39)notout and captain Harmanpreet Kaur 32 (23) not out Shamilia Connell finished with figures of 3-0-17-1 followed by Hayley Matthewswith2-0-7-1.

After the match captain HayleyMatthewsapplauded the efforts by the four U19 playerswhowerepartofthe playingeleventoday,saying “It was really good to see how the U19s played today

ZaidaJamessteppedupwith the bat and the energy that theybroughtonthefieldwas reallygood. We are still missing the experience of Stafanie Taylor and Chinelle Henry and it’s been a pretty tough tournament for us when it comestoresultsbutwehave better days to look forward too.”

T20I Tri-Series Match Results

(allmatchestobeplayed at Buffalo Park, East London)

21 January: vs South

Africa–SouthAfricawonby 44runs

23 January: vs India –Indiawonby56runs

25 January: vs South Africa–SouthAfricawonby 10wickets

30 January: vs India, 3pmlocaltime(9amEastern Caribbean/8am Jamaica)Indiawonby8wickets

2 February: Tri-Series

Final, 3pm local time (9am Eastern Caribbean/8am Jamaica)