Women’s cricket: West Indies beat India by 3 wickets, lead series 2-1
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 Women clinched a 3-wicket win over India Women in the third One Day International at the Reliance Stadium, Vadodara on Saturday to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match ODI series.
The tourists survived a late wobble when their two big guns Deandra Dottin and Shanel Daley holed out in quick succession, however, with plenty of overs to spare, Shemaine Campbelle and Anisa Mohammad ensured that the Caribbean women
cruise past the target without losing any more wickets.
Chasing 157 to win, opening duo of Stafanie Taylor and Juliana Nero gave the visitors a steady but cautious start, scoring 45 runs from the opening 11 overs before Diana David earned http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 Women their first breakthrough by dismissing
Nero for 22 runs.
Leg-spinner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gouher-Sultana-c60424 tied down the West Indian Women batting line-up in the middle overs. The spin duo conceded only 41 runs in the middle overs. Roy struck in the 22nd over to
remove the fluent opener, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915 just four runs short of her well-deserved ninth half-century. Taylor’s 46, which came off 72 balls, included seven boundaries as well.
Despite losing both their opening batsmen, the tourists continued to get handy contributions from the middle order and at 142 for 5 in the 42nd over, Merissa Aguilleira’s side was the favourite to win quite comfortably.
But Diana David had Dottin caught by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jhulan-Goswami-c66974 off the last ball of 42nd over and in the next over Roy struck back dismissing Shanel Daley at 12 to give the visitors something to think about.
With just 15 runs required off more than seven overs, Campbelle and Mohammad shared a cautious stand to take their side home with four balls to spare and three wickets still intact.
Earlier, India Women, after winning the toss, opted to set a chase and slumped to 102 for 7 before http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Amita-Sharma-c44062 blazed her way to 35 off 34 balls and helped the hosts post 156.
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