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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Ramnath leads West Indies U19 Women to Super Six

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Spork Desk
32 days ago
20250124

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Cap­tain Sama­ra Ram­nath cap­tured four wick­ets to pro­pel the West In­dies Un­der-19 Women to their first win and in­to the Su­per Six round of the ICC Women’s Un­der-19 T20 World Cup via a 53-run vic­to­ry over Malaysia Un­der-19 Women in their fi­nal Group A match on Thurs­day.

In a must-win con­test for both teams, West In­dies were strug­gling at 37 for one in the 10th over, but blast­ed 75 runs off the last 10 overs to post 112 for sev­en from their 20 overs.

Open­er Asabi Cal­len­der led the way with 30 runs off 42 balls, while Jahzara Clax­ton scored 19 from 14 balls and Abi­gail Bryce chipped in with 14 runs.

Nur Syafiqa (2-26) and Siti Nazwah (2-28), were the pick of the Malaysia bowlers.

Need­ing to score at just over five and a half runs an over to se­cure a his­toric vic­to­ry, Malaysia’s ear­ly progress was stunt­ed by some su­perb bowl­ing from Ram­nath, who took 4-6 from her four overs, and they were dis­missed for 59 in 18 overs.

Spin­ners Erin Deane and Nai­jan­ni Cum­ber­batch took two wick­ets apiece to fin­ish off the low­er or­der.

Malaysia got off to a hor­ri­ble start when Nuni Fari­ni was run out by a di­rect throw from Clax­ton sta­tioned at cov­er to leave them 14 for one.

Skip­per Nur Syuha­da came to the crease and drove Clax­ton for two bound­aries in the fifth over as Malaysia raced to 30 for one.

How­ev­er, Clax­ton got her re­venge when she had Nuni Fari­ni caught be­hind af­ter scor­ing one from just 22 de­liv­er­ies.

Ram­nath then struck twice in the 11th over; first bowl­ing Syuha­da with the first ball for 12 as she at­tempt­ed a slog and then three balls lat­er she trapped Syafiqa lbw for a duck as Malaysia slipped to 38 for four.

Ram­nath then bowled Suabi­ka Mani­van­nan as the West In­dies cap­tured the fi­nal six Malaysia wick­ets for the ad­di­tion of just 21 runs, with the hosts’ bat­ters fail­ing to ne­go­ti­ate the off­spin of Deane and Cum­ber­batch.

The re­sult helped West In­dies qual­i­fy as the third best team from Group A while Malaysia was elim­i­nat­ed from the tour­na­ment hav­ing lost all three of their match­es.

SUM­MARISED SCORES

WEST IN­DIES U19s 112-7 in 20 overs (Asabi Cal­len­der 30, Jahzara Clax­ton 19, Abi­gail Bruce 14; Nur Syafiqa 2-26, Siti Nazwah 2-28) vs

MALAYSIA U19s 59 in 18 overs (Nur Syuha­da 12; Sama­ra Ram­nath 4-6, Erin Deane 2-7, Nai­jan­ni Cum­ber­batch 2-14).

(CMC)


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