On a tour of recurring themes, Windies bowled well again and chased again only to lose again
Australia 269 for 7 (Mooney 65, Litchfield 46; Matthews 3-40) beat West Indies 179 all out (Matthews 45, Fletcher 32*; Gardner 3-34) by 90 runs
The West Indies have so far lost all five games of their white-ball tour at home to Australia, with the latest contest concluding in a 90-run defeat in the second Women’s One-Day International at Warner Park in St. Kitts & Nevis on Sunday.
Not for the first time, the West Indian bowlers tested Australia’s batting, leaving the hosts with a real chance at the halfway stage of the game. Yet just as it had panned out on each occasion prior, the result went the visitors’ way, this time giving them a winning 2-0 lead in the three-match contest.
There was a feeling that if the West Indies were to chase any score in the series, it had to be the 269 they restricted Australia to on Sunday. Chasing 270 runs for victory, Qiana Joseph and captain Hayley Matthews saw them to 48 without loss after 10 overs. The pair went on to share in a 57-run stand for the first wicket before Ashleigh Gardner (3/34) dismissed Joseph, caught and bowled, in the 12th over for 29.
The partnership between Matthews and Stafanie Taylor that followed was a struggle, to say the least. The two boundaries in the stand came within the first 20 of the 74 balls the duo faced in their time together. They only managed to score 37 runs between them as the Australian spinners took control of proceedings.