BAS­SETERRE – A run-a-ball, even, un­beat­en 50 from West In­dies Women’s bats­man She­maine Camp­belle an­chored Guyana to an eight-wick­et win against de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Ja­maica in the West In­dies Women’s Twen­ty20 Blaze on Thurs­day.

Camp­belle struck five fours from 49 balls and shared an un­bro­ken third wick­et stand of ex­act­ly 100 with in­ter­na­tion­al team­mate Shak­ibi Gan­jn­abi, and the Guyanese suc­cess­ful­ly chased 110 in the open­ing match of the triple-head­er at Warn­er Park.

Gajn­abi sup­port­ed with 37 not out from 46 balls and for­malised the re­sult with 12 balls re­main­ing when she pulled a de­liv­ery from off-spin­ner Vanes­sa Watts in­to mid-wick­et for a sin­gle to give Guyana their third win of the tour­na­ment.

Pac­er Celi­na Whyte took two for 11 from her al­lot­ted four overs – re­mov­ing Shene­ta Grim­mond for six and fel­low open­er Katana Men­tore for two – but Camp­belle and Gajn­abi snuffed out the em­bers of a fight­back from the Ja­maicans with their sol­id bat­ting.

The Guyanese pro­vi­sion­al­ly move to the top of the ta­ble on 12 points, and await the out­come of the con­test be­tween One-day cham­pi­ons Bar­ba­dos and lead­ers Wind­ward Is­lands, start­ing at 7 p.m. East Caribbean Time, to de­ter­mine if they hold on­to that place.

Ja­maica re­mained stuck on eight points and were no match for the Guyanese, and vir­tu­al­ly fluffed their hopes of re­tain­ing the ti­tle fol­low­ing an­oth­er weak bat­ting per­for­mance.

For­mer West In­dies Women’s cap­tain Stafanie Tay­lor led the way again with 48 off 49 balls that in­clud­ed five fours and one six, but the Ja­maicans could on­ly muster 109 for six from their al­lo­ca­tion of 20 overs af­ter they won the toss and chose to bat.

Tay­lor added 55 for the sec­ond wick­et with Ke­neshia Fer­ron and put on 32 for the third wick­et with in­ter­na­tion­al team­mate Natasha McLean, but their ef­fort was nev­er go­ing to be enough to se­ri­ous­ly chal­lenge Guyana.

McLean made 27 and Fer­ron got 20.

In­ter­na­tion­al pac­er Cher­ry-Ann Fras­er was the pick of the Guyanese bowlers with three for 18 from three overs.

The sec­ond match of the day fea­tures hosts Lee­ward Is­lands and Trinidad & To­ba­go, start­ing at 2:30 p.m. EC Time.

CMC

BRIEF SCORES:

JA­MAICA 109 for six off 20 overs (Stafanie Tay­lor 48, Natasha McLean 27, Ke­neshia Fer­ron 20; Cher­ry-Ann Fras­er 3-18)

GUYANA 110 for two off 20 overs (She­maine Camp­belle 50 not out, Shak­i­ba Gajn­abi 37 not out; Celi­na Whyte 2-11).

Guyana won by eight wick­ets.