The West Indies women have now made it three wins a row as they brushed aside Sri Lanka by nine wickets, with more than 21 overs to spare, in their ICC Challenge match on Saturday. This superb victory follows their other wins by 148 runs over the Netherlands and by 165 runs over Ireland.
The bowlers started the great work dismissing Sri Lanka for 165 off 48.3 overs on a good pitch at the North West University Ground 1.
With 4- 26 from her 10 overs, off- spinner Anisa Mohammed was the best bowler, and earned the Player-of- the- Match award.
It was her career- best performance surpassing the 3- 13 she took on Thursday against the Irish. She is now the tournament’s leading wicket- taker, with nine wickets at an average of 6.66 per wicket.
After the bowlers did their job, the Windies batters easily erased the target as they sped to 166- 1 off just 28.4 overs.
Juliana Nero cracked a brilliant 52 off 47 balls with seven boundaries. She added an opening stand of 91 off just 73 balls with Stafanie Taylor, who ended on 68 not out from 80 balls. Taylor continued her excellent batting in the tournament.
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