West Indies Women won the three-match Twenty20 series by 2-1

West Indies Women won the three-match Twenty20 series by 2-1 with a crushing nine-wicket win over Sri Lanka Women in the third and final match at the R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo yesterday.

Chasing a modest 75-run target, openers Stafanie Taylor (38 off 35 balls) and Hayley Matthews batted for just 11 overs to reach the victory target with 8.4 balls to spare. Hayley Matthews, who demolished Sri Lanka Women middle order taking four wickets, scored an unbeaten 38 runs while in-form batswoman Stafanie Taylor got out in the first ball of the 11th over.

Sent into bat, Sri Lanka Women were restricted to 74 for 9 within 20 overs.

After losing two early wickets in successive deliveries of the second over, Lankans were unable to recover and were bowled out fo

r less than 100 runs.

Skipper Chamari Atapattu played a lone innings while wickets fell regulary at the other end. Atapattu was the top scorer, hitting 43 runs. The skipper perished in the 15th over after smashing six boundaries during her 48-ball knock.

Anisa Mohammed, who tooked the first two wickets, bowled a decent four-over spell giving away seven runs. Player-of-the-match Hayley Matthews was the pick of the visitors bowlers , taking four for 10 in her four overs.

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