Pacer’s 5-5 bowls West Indies to 60-run win over Bangladesh  
: Deandra Dottin celebrates with her teammates after completing her five-wicket haul. (Adrian Narine photos)
: Deandra Dottin celebrates with her teammates after completing her five-wicket haul. (Adrian Narine photos)

By Rajiv Bisnauth

WEST Indies’ quest to retain the ICC Women’s World T20 title is on track after the tournament favourites defeated lower-ranked Bangladesh by 60 runs in the Women’s T20 World Cup fixture last evening at the Guyana National Stadium.

At the start of the game, Bangladesh won the toss and decided to bowl. The defending champions put up a below-par batting performance scoring 106-8, but Bangladesh struggled in the run chase and were eventually bowled out for 46 in 14.4 overs.

Rumana Ahmed is bowled by Deandra Dottin

Medium Pacer Deandra Dottin was just too good for Bangladesh’s middle and lower-order, as she ended with 5-5, her career-best, best by a Windies bowler and in the history of the tournament.

Bangladesh might have hoped for an upset as they began the 107 chase, but that hope evaporated pretty soon.

Their technique was found out and their temperament was non-existent. Not even a single batter reached double figures, some dismissals exposed the amount of work they need to do with their batting.

Earlier, it was the batting that let the Windies down with only Kycia Knight’s 24-ball 32, and Stefanie Taylor who never got going during her 44-ball 28 that gave the hosts something to bowl at.

Jahanara Alam, who finished with three wickets, was the pick of the Bangladesh bowlers, but it was the spinners who dried up the scoring on a wicket predicted to be slow and low.

After a first over which cost nine runs, including a six from Deandra Dottin off Alam, the visitors hit back hard with three wickets inside the powerplay overs.

Alam claimed the wickets of Dottin and Hayley Matthews off consecutive balls at the start of the third over, before Salma Khatun trapped Shemaine Campbelle lbw at 18-3.

Salma Khatun is bowled by Deandra Dottin

Things went further downhill for the defending champions with the dismissals of Natasha McLean and Britney Cooper, but Taylor and Knight added 37 for the sixth-wicket to prop the innings up.

Rumana Ahmed (2-16) and a wicket for Khadija Tul Kubra, were the other successful bowlers.

The pitch did deteriorate by the time Bangladesh batted in the second innings, and the run chase was not any ease.

Apart from Dottin, the other Windies’ bowlers all kept a tight leash on the opposition, and shared the wickets around.

This is the first standalone Women’s World Twenty20 and the first global cricket event in the region since 2010.

Guyana’s leg of the tournament continues tomorrow with India playing Pakistan at 11:00hrs and Australia takes on Ireland from 16:00hrs.

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