Jamaica Women on the cusp of winning T20 title
Jamaica Women are poised to win the Women’s Twenty20 Blaze title after Windward Islands Women defeated the Leeward Islands Women by six wickets in the final game of Saturday’s triple-header at Warner Park in St Kitts.
Jamaica had earlier defeated Trinidad and Tobago Women by eight wickets and with the Leeward Islands’ defeat, are runaway leaders on 17 points. They are eight points ahead of Leeward Islands and Trinidad and Tobago, with Guyana Women on six.
It was the unbeaten Jamaica Women’s fourth consecutive victory, and they will play Leeward Islands Women today at Warner Park in the final round of matches.
Meanwhile, the Windward Islands’ victory was their first, with the points moving them one from the bottom of the six-team league on four points, with Barbados at the bottom also on four.
Sent in, Leewards were held to 89 for seven off their 20 overs, with captain Amanda Edwards top-scoring with 30 from 37 deliveries and Reniece Boyce chipping in with 23, also off 37 balls.
The innings was in turmoil at 23 for four in the eighth over before the pair came together in a 48-run, fifth-wicket stand that repaired the damage.
Both Edwards and Boyce struck a four and a six before the stand ended in the 18th over, when Boyce charged off-spinner Amiah Gilbert and was stumped.
In reply, Windwards were carried by West Indies player Qiana Joseph, who top-scored with 37 from 39 balls with seven fours.
She dominated a 42-run opening stand with Jannilea Glasgow before adding another 32 for the second wicket with captain Afty Fletcher, who made 23.