BAS­SETERRE – Dis­ap­point­ed with the man­ner in which she was dis­missed in the sec­ond One Day In­ter­na­tion­al against Bangladesh, De­an­dra Dot­tin had a point to prove in the open­ing Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al (T20I) in St Kitts.

The 33-year-old made right things wrong on Mon­day, blud­geon­ing sev­en six­es in scor­ing a 21-ball half cen­tu­ry to help lead West In­dies Women to a com­fort­able eight wick­et vic­to­ry over Bangladesh Women at Warn­er Park.

It was the fastest half cen­tu­ry by a West In­dies woman in T20 crick­et and tied for fifth fastest in Women’s T20 in­ter­na­tion­als.

Dot­tin’s sev­en six­es is al­so tied for the sixth most by a woman in a T20I in­nings.

Speak­ing dur­ing a post-match in­ter­view on Mon­day, Dot­tin ad­mit­ted that she came with a plan to be ag­gres­sive from the get-go.

She said the fact that the match was be­ing played at Warn­er Park made her per­for­mance even more en­joy­able.

“I think this is my favourite venue in the Caribbean af­ter the 2010 World Cup and scor­ing the fastest hun­dred.

“But I ba­si­cal­ly came out with a lit­tle vengeance af­ter get­ting out ear­ly in one of the ODIs, so I just said I was com­ing out to beat ball. It’s ei­ther I get them, or they get me,” Dot­tin said jok­ing­ly.

The Bar­ba­di­an who came out of re­tire­ment last year, has the most six­es in Women’s T20 in­ter­na­tion­als with 124 six­es in 137 match­es.

So­phie Devine of New Zealand is sec­ond with 114 six­es from 143 match­es while Sri Lan­ka’s Chamari Atha­p­aththu has hit 88 six­es in 143 match­es.

Dot­tin ex­plained that her bat­ting ap­proach var­ied based on the con­di­tions of the pitch and the bowl­ing unit.

How­ev­er, she said she al­ways backed her­self to per­form re­gard­less of where and who she was play­ing against.

“Some­times I do get off to a fast start, some­times I don’t. It’s just a mat­ter of as­sess­ing the pitch and just feel­ing out the bowlers, kind of get­ting them com­fort­able and giv­ing them a false sense of se­cu­ri­ty,” Dot­tin said.

“So just like how I start­ed tonight, I just got com­fort­able and then af­ter that I picked my ar­eas to hit the ball.

“It’s just a mat­ter of back­ing your­self, as­sess­ing the con­di­tions and the pitch re­al­ly quick­ly and tak­ing on the bowlers that are weak in a sense.

“But like I said, it all boils down to be­liev­ing in your­self and hav­ing that de­ter­mi­na­tion and want­i­ng it more,” she added.

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