DUBAI, United Arab Emirates:
West Indies Ladies’s captain Hayley Matthews says her teammates showed gargantuan heart and grit in defeating England to qualify for the semifinals of the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup on Tuesday.
Desiring a internet to real a site in the closing four, West Indies Ladies produced an unparalleled performance on their formulation to recording a pleased six-wicket victory over the favourites, eliminating them from the rivals in the formulation.
It marked the important thing time West Indies Ladies had defeated England in T20 cricket since 2018 and snapped a 13-game losing crawl.
West Indies will now play New Zealand in the 2d semifinal the next day for a train in Sunday’s closing.
Matthews talked about she was as soon as extraordinarily at ease with the Caribbean facet’s progress in the occasion since their embarrassing opening-round loss to South Africa the build they went down by 10 wickets.
“Yeah, it was as soon as correct large jubilation. I contemplate we’re correct extremely at ease with what we luxuriate in now been in a field to total up to now this occasion.
“I contemplate moderately masses of of us wrote us off coming into this occasion and the model we luxuriate in now been in a field to head about our cricket, especially after the starting up we had in opposition to South Africa, we luxuriate in now correct bounced aid in opposition to Scotland, in opposition to Bangladesh, and I contemplate we luxuriate in now got now not beat England in about six years,” Matthews talked about on the put up-match press convention following the victory that propelled them to pole site in Community B.
“As a ways as I will take into accout, the closing time we beat them was as soon as aid in 2018, however all and sundry gentle came here with a perception and a fight.
“And it correct shows what we can cease as a West Indian group. I contemplate moderately masses of of us increasing in opposition to us know that if it’s one component we luxuriate in now bought, it be moderately masses of heart and pretty masses of fight, and we correct showed that on the present time,” she added.
Matthews, who scored an even half of-century and along side fellow opener Qiana Joseph, who made 52, placed on 102 runs to spearhead the Windies’ run, admitted that the entirety had clicked at some stage in that stand.
“I contemplate going out we didn’t have confidence getting 60 off six overs, however me personally from the important thing ball I confronted I spotted it was as soon as sliding on and I roughly took a liking to that,” she talked about.
“After which Qiana quite great has correct one feature when she goes out there and that’s to fetch us off to a extraordinarily correct starting up. She has unprecedented hand-gaze coordination, and I contemplate that whereas you happen to cease are available in in her half of on an valid wicket, she in actuality is a deadly player.”
– CMC
