LA­HORE – A mag­nif­i­cent all-round per­for­mance from cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews could not pre­vent the West In­dies from go­ing down to Scot­land by 11 runs in their ICC World Cup Qual­i­fy­ing match in Pak­istan on Wednes­day.

Matthews claimed four wick­ets in help­ing to dis­miss Scot­land for 244, then re­turned to hit an un­beat­en 114 in the West In­dies’ re­ply of 233.

Af­ter be­ing put in­to bat, Scot­land’s open­ers, Ab­bi Aitken-Drum­mond and Darcey Carter, laid a sol­id foun­da­tion with a 48-run stand be­fore Matthews struck, re­mov­ing Aitken-Drum­mond for 21, Carter for 25, and Kathryn Bryce 6, in quick suc­ces­sion to leave Scot­land at 69 for three.

Wick­et­keep­er Sarah Bryce stead­ied the in­nings with a cru­cial 55, as she shared in an 82-run fifth wick­et part­ner­ship with Megan Mc­Coll to give the Scot­land in­nings some im­pe­tus.

But Matthews 4-56 and two sharp runouts from Chinelle Hen­ry, in­clud­ing Mc­Coll for 45, re­strict­ed Scot­land to 244 in the 45th over. Aaliyah Al­leyne and Kar­ish­ma Ramharack each picked up two wick­ets.

In re­ply, the re­gion­al side got off to a bad start, los­ing open­er Quaina Joseph for a duck with just sev­en runs on the board. Matthews then spear­head­ed the chase, as the skip­per was well sup­port­ed by Zai­da James.

The pair added 113 for the sec­ond wick­et be­fore James fell to Abel for 45 off 89 balls, which in­clud­ed five fours and a six.

Scot­land then dug in and be­gan to pick up wick­ets at reg­u­lar in­ter­vals, just as the Windies were look­ing to build part­ner­ships and chip away at the runs.

Matthews had to re­tire hurt on 95 with the game in the bal­ance as Scot­land’s bowlers kept chip­ping away, with Kather­ine Fras­er dis­miss­ing Cher­ry-Ann Fras­er for a duck, leav­ing the Windies at 194 for sev­en in the 40th over.

Re­turn­ing to the crease, Matthews brought up a mag­nif­i­cent cen­tu­ry but ran out of part­ners, fin­ish­ing un­beat­en on 114 from 113 balls as Aaliyah Al­leyne was the last wick­et to fall, lbw to Ab­ta­ha Maq­sood for 17, seal­ing Scot­land’s thrilling win.

In the day’s oth­er game, host Pak­istan de­feat­ed Ire­land by 38 runs.

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Sum­marised scores

SCOT­LAND 244 (45 overs) (Sarah Bryce 55, Megan Mc­Coll 45, Darcey Carter 25, Kather­ine Fras­er 25 not out; Hay­ley Matthews 4-56, Aaliyah Al­leyne 2-31, Kar­isham Ramharack 2-46) vs WEST IN­DIES 233 (46.2 overs) (Hay­ley Matthews 114 not out, Zai­da James 45; Kather­ine Fras­er 3-50, Chloe Abel 2-31, Ab­ta­ha Maq­sood 2-60). Scot­land won by 11 runs.