Recent Match Report – West Indies Women vs Australia Women, ICC Women’s Championship, 3rd ODI

Australian women 182 2 (hill rear 61, running 58 *) bit West india women 180 by 8 turnstiles (Knight 40, Schutt 3-24)

The final ODI of the 3-game series between Antigua's West Indies and Australian women proceeded in much the same way as the previous two matches, this time eight wickets dominated Australia. Megan Chute became Australia's first history to play an ODI hat trick in women's cricket, before the opening game of Alyssa Healy's offensive ended the West Indies. The 3-0 results helped Australian women to lead 4 points besides confirming their place in the 2021 Women's World Cup by passing England women at the ICC Women's Championships table.

The West Indies chose batters, but their innings were generally defined as batting average following promising partnerships. Kyshona Knight set the highest order with 40 knockouts to help rebuild the side after the opener Reniece Boyce's initial defeat. But when she fell, West Indies hid from 6 to 73 to 2 to 104 in the mid-over. The seven-wit partnership, which runs 64 times between Chinelle Henry and Sheneta Grimmond, has lifted more than 150 times, but only loses the last four turnstiles in 12 games. The sluggishness included suit's last hattrick, and claimed Henry, Karish Marram, and Api Fletcher's turnstile. Chute was the first Australian bowler who inadvertently claimed a woman's T20I hattrick.

Healing played in 122 innings and 58 innings in the last two innings, another 11-4 and 6 knockouts in another 32 ball 61. Experienced Meg Lanning and Ellyse Perry, who scored 9 or more, took the chase and scored more than 18 Lanning, who scored 121 points in the first ODI, scored as many as 58 balls with 70 points while Perry scored 85 points.

It was the third time in 16 years that a West Indian woman did not win a single match in the home ODI series. Sri Lanka swept 6-0 in 2003 and lost three games 2-0 in England. At the end of one game 2013. He also lost 3-0 on the England Tour in June. Both white washes remained seventh at the ODI Championship table.