BAS­SETERRE, St Kitts – Guyana fol­lowed up tidy bowl­ing led by Plafi­an­na Milling­ton with steady bat­ting to clinch a five-wick­et win against hosts Lee­ward Is­lands in their third-round match of the West In­dies Women’s T20 Blaze on Tues­day.

Open­er Shene­ta Grim­mond hit the top score of 26 and West In­dies Women’s in­ter­na­tion­al She­maine Camp­belle sup­port­ed with 23, and the Guyanese chased down 94 to win the fi­nal match of the triple-head­er at Warn­er Park.

Grim­mond dom­i­nat­ed an open­ing stand of 34 with Katana Men­tore, and the Guyanese need­ed were halfway to the tar­get when off-spin­ner Jeni­son Richards bowled her in the ninth over, bring­ing the long-serv­ing Camp­belle to the crease.

Camp­belle an­chored the rest of the chase to get her side to the promised land with 14 balls re­main­ing, and she was the on­ly oth­er bats­man to reach 20.

With the win, the Guyanese join de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Ja­maica and One-day cham­pi­ons Bar­ba­dos with two wins out of their three match­es to set up a three-way tie on eight points, and they will all need net run rate in their fi­nal two match­es to de­cide their fate. Lee­wards re­mained win­less.

Ear­li­er, Milling­ton bagged three for 21 from her al­lot­ted four overs, and the Guyanese re­strict­ed the home team to 93 for six in their 20 overs.

Di­vya Sax­e­na led the way for the Lee­wards with 31 and shared 34 for the third wick­et with Aman­da Ed­wards to prop up her side’s bat­ting, but no oth­er bats­man got 20.

In the open­ing match of the day, Wind­ward Is­lands de­fied an im­pact­ful spell from off-spin­ner Sama­ra Ram­nath to clinch a con­fi­dence-boost­ing sev­en-wick­et win against Trinidad & To­ba­go.

Ra­manth snared three for 12 from her al­lot­ted four overs, but all-rounder Qiana Joseph led the way with 18 not out and West In­dies Women’s leg-spin­ner Afy Fletch­er made 13, and the Wind­wards suc­cess­ful­ly chased 60 to win.

And in the sec­ond match of the day, an un­beat­en half-cen­tu­ry from open­er Aaliyah Al­leyne pro­pelled Bar­ba­dos to a nine-wick­et win against Ja­maica in an­oth­er low-scor­ing con­test.

The 28-year-old West In­dies Women’s pac­er, open­ing the bat­ting, struck eight fours in a run-a-ball top score of 55, and the Bar­ba­di­ans over­hauled a mod­est tar­get of 99.

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BRIEF SCORES:

LEE­WARD IS­LANDS 93 for six off 20 overs (Di­vya Sax­e­na 31; Plaf­fi­ana Milling­ton 3-21).

GUYANA 94 for five off 17.4 overs (Shene­ta Grim­mond 26, She­maine Camp­bell 23 not out).

Guyana won by five wick­ets.