Australian women score big ODI, T20 series wins over West Indies
Australia registered an emphatic close to its impressive tour of the Caribbean with a sixth win out of six in the final T20, Jess Jonassen’s 4/7 from her four overs setting up the latest victory.
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Australia’s women cricketers completed a stunning six-game clean sweep in the Caribbean on Thursday thanks an emphatic nine-wicket victory over the West Indies.
In the third and final T20 match, Australia bowled the home side out on the last ball of the final over for 81 runs. The Aussies reached the small target in the seventh over, losing only opening batter Alyssa Healy who made a quickfire 38 runs from 16 balls (an innings that included six fours and two sixes).
Player of the match was Australian bowler Jess Jonassen whose figures of 4/7 from her four overs set up the win.
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The Australian won all three one-day internationals and all three T20s played against the Windies and set records as they went, including one to South Australian swing bowler Megan Schutt who became the first Australian woman to take a hat-trick in an ODI and in the process became the first female in the world to take two hat-tricks at international level.
Meanwhile, Aussie captain Meg Lanning’s sizzling form with the bat across all six games meant she became Australia’s great female run scorer of all time.
Meg Lanning doesn't drop them! 🙌
— Australian Women's Cricket Team ðŸ (@AusWomenCricket) September 18, 2019
Tune in to the final #WIvAUS T20 LIVE: https://t.co/XJCJOQe8jK pic.twitter.com/a2UdkSwt7U
Australian coach Matthew Mott said the team was determined to “finish off in style and
close the book on things” .
”We’re really happy with the way the bowling unit’s going, there have been some really great changes there, even seeing Megan Schutt coming around the wicket to left-handers has been fantastic,” he said.
“That part’s going well and our batting’s been really good, I thought we got better with every game ... the last two (run chases) we did in style.”
The team now returns to Australia for a quick rest before another series begins, this time the Sri Lankan women’s team arrives for a six-game series in September and October.
An epic tour of the West Indies comes to an end in perfect fashion ðŸ†
— Australian Women's Cricket Team ðŸ (@AusWomenCricket) September 19, 2019
Thanks for all the support from back home! #WatchMe #WIvAUS pic.twitter.com/EaAm2khwCd
The squads for that series will announced next week, but Mott said he didn’t expect any major selection changes for that series.
“I think we’ve got a strong nucleus of players here,” he said.
To manage cricket loads ahead of facing the Sri Lankans, the majority of Australian players will be rested from state duties this weekend when the Women’s National Cricket League gets underway.
However, the Aussie players will all be ready for the historic first standalone series of the Women’s Big Bash League will start from mid-October. And then comes the 2020 T20 World Cup being held in Australia.
Commbank series v Sri Lanka
First T20:
September 29, North Sydney Oval 1
2.10pm ACST
Second T20:
September 30
North Sydney Oval 1
6.40pm
Third T20:
October 2
North Sydney Oval 1
1.40pm
First ODI:
October 5
Allan Border Field, Brisbane
9.30am ACST
Second ODI:
October 7
Allan Border Field
10.30am
Third ODI:
October 9
Allan Border Field
10.30am
Originally published as Australian women score big ODI, T20 series wins over West Indies
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