West Indies Women stand-in captain Anisa Mohammed is taking the drawn WT20I series against South Africa Women as a plus heading into the 50-over format.
West Indies Women pulled off a five-wicket win in the final match of the three-game series Saturday to level the series and continue their undefeated series’ streak against South Africa Women.
After the match, Mohammed said, “And I’ve said to the girls before a tie looks better than a loss so I just want to commend the girls. I thought our bowlers bowled really well and the energy in the field was exceptional.”
Led by Karishma Ramharack with personal best figures of 3-8 and support from Aaliyah Alleyne (2-16), the Caribbean ladies restricted South Africa Women to 80 for nine from their 20 overs.
“I think we played really well in the first game. Unfortunately, that game got rained out. In the second game we were not ourselves at all and I said to the girls each player on the XI say today is going to be my day so we had 11 players on the field saying today is my day and I think that worked for us, we really wanted to win,” Mohammed said.
Deandra Dottin and Kyshona Knight piloted the chase with 31 and 26 respectively to ensure the hosts won with 49 balls to spare.
“That was really pleasing to see the girls go out there and we had a really good start by the two opening bowlers and we kept that pressure on and we wanted to restrict then to less than 100 because we knew they had good bowlers but once we do that we would be in a good position to win the game,” said Mohammed.
Mohammed pointed out that in the second match, they went wrong in all departments but put it down as a bad day in the office.
The two sides will now prepare to face each other in the first One Day International tomorrow.
