BAS­SETERRE, St Kitts – Hav­ing clinched the pre­ced­ing One Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries against Bangladesh, West In­dies Women’s cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews is hop­ing they can al­so trans­late that suc­cess in­to their up­com­ing T20 se­ries.

The West In­dies Women play Bangladesh in a three-match se­ries be­gin­ning on Mon­day at Warn­er Park.

It is their first T20 se­ries of the year and they will be look­ing to re­bound from their 2-1 T20 se­ries loss to In­dia Women last De­cem­ber.

While Matthews said the home se­ries pre­sent­ed an op­por­tu­ni­ty for younger play­ers to make a name for them­selves, she said win­ning was ul­ti­mate­ly the team’s main fo­cus.

“I think it would be great to see every­one get an op­por­tu­ni­ty to re­al­ly show­case their skills.

“We’ve ob­vi­ous­ly got a lot of new play­ers in the team and a lot of younger play­ers in the team at the mo­ment as well, so it would be great to see peo­ple re­al­ly get to make a name for them­selves in a se­ries like this,” Matthews said.

“But at the same time from a team per­spec­tive, just con­tin­u­ing to get in­to win­ning habits as a team and hope­ful­ly it can help us go up the rank­ings a bit as well if we can be re­al­ly con­sis­tent in 2025.”

(CMC)