Mumbai Mumbai. Hayley Mathews' brilliant unbeaten inning of 85 runs and Smriti Mandhana's 62-run innings helped West Indies Women end the nine-match losing streak against India by winning the second T20 match by nine wickets on Tuesday and clinching the three-match series. Tied it at 1-1. Thanks to Mandhana's unbeaten innings on 41 balls and Richa Ghosh's quick innings of 32 runs on 17 balls, the host team scored 159/9. After this, West Indies demonstrated brilliant power hitting by demolishing the Indian bowling attack and registered their biggest win in terms of wickets against India. Sixth-ranked West Indies achieved the target of 160 runs in just 15.4 overs and scored 160/1. This was their first win over world number three India after nine consecutive defeats since November 2016. This was his ninth win in the shortest format in 24 matches. Mathews, who had earlier taken 2 for 36, played a blistering innings of 85 off 47 balls – which included 17 fours – while Kianna Joseph (38 off 22 balls, 6 fours, 2 sixes) and Shamayne Campbell (not out) 25) also took their shots.
Now the deciding match of the series will be played on Thursday at DY Patil. India had won the first match by 49 runs. Joseph scored 18 runs by hitting three fours and a six off Titus Sadhu in the second over and Mathews along with his partner also hit consecutive fours and West Indies completed 50 runs in five overs. Due to rapid accumulation of dew, the Indian bowlers were unable to make their mark with the new ball and the only chance in the powerplay was lost when Sajjana Sajeevan bowled Josephka at the score of 26. Dropped catch.
Saima Thakor (1/28) finally dismissed Joseph in the seventh over, losing pace as the ball slowed down; the left-handed batsman mistimed a shot, which Richa Ghosh saved safely to get the only success. The game remained quiet for some time after, but Mathews hit two fours off Radha Yadav and number three Shamine Campbell regained the momentum by hitting three consecutive fours off Sadhu.
Mathews took a liking to Yadav as the Windies skipper hit four consecutive fours in the 11th over, combining powerful hitting with accuracy in finding the gap. Thakor also had the same fate, when the West Indies captain completely closed the doors for India by hitting three consecutive fours in the 14th over. Before this, Mandhana scored her second consecutive half-century and Richa Ghosh's 32-run innings helped India level the score. Got the score.
Acting captain Mandhana took full advantage of three lives and scored an attractive half-century with the help of nine fours and one six. He provided strength to the top order as wickets kept falling at the other end. Mandhana laid the foundation while Ghosh played the role of finisher brilliantly with the help of six fours in 17 balls. With this, India crossed 150 runs. At one time it seemed that the match was going to be difficult due to the failure of other specialist batsmen.
Jemimah Rodrigues (13), who played a brilliant inning of 73 runs in the first match of the series, hit two fours, but she was caught by Mathews as she missed the ball while trying to take it to the on side. Debutant Raghavi Bisht is not doing anything special. Was able to do so and was out in front of the wickets after scoring only 5 runs on the ball of Afi Fletcher (2/28). Deepti Sharma (17) herself was responsible for being run out. To be fair, he went for no runs while Ghosh kept asking him to come back. Deandra Dottin fielded brilliantly and took the wickets of Uma Chhetri and Ghosh in a modest innings of 4-0-14-2. , Due to which she was the hero of the victory of the Windies.
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