Australia Spin Themselves Out Of Trouble To Clinch Odi Series In West Indies

Australia person taken an unassailable 2-0 lead successful their ODI bid against West Indies pinch a 90-run triumph successful nan 2nd lucifer astatine St Kitts’ Warner Park.

New skipper Sophie Molineux rested her caller backmost wounded and watched connected arsenic seasoned Beth Mooney (65 disconnected 104 balls) top-scored for nan visitors, who managed 269-7 aft winning nan toss.

Spinners Georgia Wareham (3-29) and Ash Gardner (3-34) were cardinal pinch nan shot arsenic nan hosts rued a illness of 7-34 connected nan turning platform successful reply.

West Indies were each retired for 179 aft 46 overs connected Monday (AEDT).

Ninth connected nan ICC’s ODI rankings, West Indies had looked up for nan conflict against nan world No 1 Australians, who fell to 82-4 successful nan 16th complete of their innings.

Ashmini Munisar (2-45) notably struck doubly successful 2 balls to topple heavyweights Georgia Voll (23) and Ellyse Perry, retired for only her 3rd aureate duck successful 166 ODIs.

Mooney and stand-in skipper Tahlia McGrath (24) sewage nan visitors backmost connected way pinch a 58-run guidelines earlier a valuable sound of 39 from Wareham astatine No 7.

In reply, West Indies prima Hayley Matthews had nan hosts search nicely astatine 1-92 done 23 overs, only to go nan first unfortunate of their almighty collapse

Matthews (45 disconnected 73 balls) was dropped by Alana King connected 44 but could only adhd 1 much tally earlier Megan Schutt’s hands proved safer successful nan aforesaid McGrath (2-15) over.

In nan adjacent over, subordinate of nan lucifer Wareham tickled nan off-stump of nan different group batter, Stafanie Taylor (18), and past sent Deandra Dottin packing for a fourth-ball duck.

Gardner had caught-and-bowled Matthews’ chap opener Qiana Joseph (29) among her 3 wickets.

Australia struggled for nan last wicket aft exhausting Wareham and Gardner’s overs, allowing Afy Fletcher (32no) and Karishma Ramharack (14) to adhd immoderate respectability to nan scorecard.

McGrath ended nan crippled and collapsed nan 49-run business for nan 10th wicket erstwhile Ramharack holed retired to Voll.

Having already swept nan three-match Twenty20 series, Australia look their hosts successful nan last ODI connected Friday (AEDT) for nan chance to declare six wins from arsenic galore matches connected tour.