West Indies Women vs Scotland Women, T20, 8th Match, Group B, October 6, 2024 - Match Info

West Indies get on the board and have now jumped to top spot in Group B courtesy their thumping win. After four double-header days in a row, we will have a single-header tomorrow with England taking on South Africa. We will be there for that game. For now that's it from all of us here. Stay safe and be well. See you soon. Bye.

Hayley Matthews | West Indies Women captain: First of all it does our NRR some justice. Starting with the ball as a group and restricting them to 99 was impressive. We probably could have kept them to an even lower score if we had fielded better, but still 99 is a solid effort. Qiana Joseph's positive approach during the powerplay was crucial, and the way Chinelle Henry and Dottin finished off the innings was great. We limited the boundary balls as much as possible, a lot of areas we can still improve on but the bowlers could bowl to their areas tonight. [on the NRR situation] It was discussed if we got to a secure position, we wanted to target that, I wanted to stay but unfortunately couldn't get going, saw the positivity from Qiana when she came in and it was great to see Deandra and Chinelle get on out there. Just take it one game at a time, we have got Bangladesh next at Sharjah, an important fixture with the way the wickets are playing there. First we need to look at the Bangladesh game and then it is England for us last. Two important games as we look for a semi-final spot.

Kathyrn Bryce | Scotland Women captain: It was a good performance in the field, we felt we were in the game in the second half. With the firepower they have got, to clear the ropes like that, makes it tricky. With a low total like that you need to take every opportunity, even half chances and it gave the other side momentum. Pretty tricky out there, Henry bowled fantastically up top, getting shape on the ball, it was hard to find the boundaries and getting 120 would have been a pretty good total on that pitch. [message to her players] It's trying to give them as much knowledge as possible, also about allowing them to play their natural game. The wickets are different from what we have been playing on, it is a big learning curve and it will give them a good experience going forward.

Chinelle Henry | Player of the Match: I just want to thank my team-mates and coaches for continuously believing in me. I got the ball to swing and that was the key, when I went to bat, I and Dottin felt that we needed to attack and score at a fast pace. We had a clear plan, backed our skills and kept bowling straight. We've been working on our batting. Hayley is a world-class batter, when she fails to turn up, we've enough batters in the arsenal. Congrats to Qiana Joseph, she went and did the role she was sent to do.

20:42 Local Time, 16:42 GMT, 22:12 IST: In the end West Indies with a commanding win. They kept losing wickets and it threatened to get trickier for them but Dottin and Chinelle Henry ensured that it was not the case. A flurry of boundaries from the duo and they have chased down 100 in 11.4 overs. Will do their NRR a world of good which had taken a beating after the heavy loss to South Africa in their opening game. Qiana Joseph came in at 3 tonight and after a couple of swipes and misses, got going and muscled the ball to set the pace. Scotland kept taking wickets to keep the interest alive but that was extinguished by the unbeaten duo. West Indies were under pressure going into this game tonight but this performance should give them a lot of confidence going forward. And they have won without a significant contribution from their talisman Hayley Matthews which just underlines how good a team effort this was. Stay tuned for the presentation...

11.4 Abtaha Maqsood to Dottin, SIX, Dottin does it in style. What a way to finish it off. It's tossed up outside the leg-stump, Dottin shimmies down the track and heaves it 10 rows back at deep mid-wicket. Not small boundaries here but such is the power of the self-proclaimed World Boss that it sails away into the crowd. West Indies win comfortably

11.3 Abtaha Maqsood to Dottin, FOUR, the reverse-sweep now. Takes it from outside off and hits it along the ground, wide of backward point and it runs away

11.2 Abtaha Maqsood to Dottin, SIX, West Indies running to a win here now. Dottin comes down the track and makes room to allow her to free her arms, lofts and it's a powerful blow, well over long-off, mid-off was in too

11.1 Abtaha Maqsood to Chinelle Henry, 1 run, tossed up and Chinelle Henry comes down the track to drive hard and straight to long-on

10.6 Bryce to Dottin, 2 runs, full outside off, Dottin reverse-paddles deftly wide of backward point for two more