Of the three ICC Women's T20 World Cup warm-up matches, today I have chosen to enjoy the 8th match. Today's 8th match is played, Australia Women vs West Indies Women. In this match, Australia women's team batted first and finished the game in 20 overs, giving the West Indies women's team a target of 145 runs. West Indies Women's batting start in the second innings looked like it would not be too difficult for West Indies Women to reach the target of 145 runs. But now with the rapid fall of wickets of the West Indies women's team, it seems that the West Indies women's team will fail to reach the target in this match. West Indies Women's team started batting against Australia Women's team so far, they have collected 108 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 17 overs. Now let's wait till the end which team can win today's match.
The Australian women's team proved that they are a better team and can come back in the match in any situation. There was a time in the match when the West Indies Women's team were two wickets down for 92 runs and everyone believed that they would win this match pretty easily. I was also surprised by the way the game shifted towards the Australian team right at the end.
But then came the bowling magic spell of Alana King and he took 4 wickets and he was helped by Tayla Vlaeminck who got the three West Indies batsmen out. Together with Annabel Sutherland, who took 2 wickets, the West Indies batsmen were unable to play the Australian women's bowlers. They need to focus on their batting abilities in the World Cup matches.
Yes, this match was an incredible victory for the Australian women's team. Those of us who watched this match live may have felt the heat of this match.Batting first, when Australia women scored 144 runs in 20 overs, we thought West Indian batsmen might not be able to overcome it. But the West Indies batsmen proved us wrong by batting very strongly. At one stage when the West Indies women's batsmen scored 92 runs for 2 wickets, we assumed that Australia women's team would lose the match outright. The biggest achievement behind defeating the West Indies women's team in this match is the Australian women's bowler Annabel Southerland. Take a look at how amazing his bowling spell was.
Annabel Southland took two wickets for two runs in just one over and broke the batting backbone of the West Indies women's team. It was largely at his hands that the West Indies women's batting disaster took place as he took two wickets in one over.