Australia Women are favorites to win
Australia Women have clearly been the superior side on this tour. West Indies Women have simply been no match for the visitors so far. Stafanie Taylor and her troops got pulverized by the Aussies in the three-match one-day international series. After crashing to a massive 178-run loss in the opening ODI, the Windies slumped to another huge defeat in the second match before going down in the third and final ODI to suffer an embarrassing series sweep.
After their flawless performance in the ODIs, Australia will now look to continue their dominance in the twenty-over format as the two teams prepare to take on each other in the three-match T20 international series. The first T20I will be played on September 14 at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados. Live telecast of the match is scheduled to begin at 7 PM local time.
TV channels: There will be no live telecast of this match.
Live Streaming: Bet365, West Indies Cricket YouTube channel
Taking into consideration the possibility of showers later in the night, the team that wins the toss in this match is more likely to bat second. Moreover, the pitch is unlikely to change after the first period of play.
No rain has been forecast on Saturday, at least for the first-half of the game. However, there is a slight possibility of rain later on in the evening but the game is unlikely to be affected by it. Temperature is expected to be around 28 degrees Celsius and humidity around 80%.
The pitch at the Kensington Oval generally tends to favor the batsmen more than the bowlers in limited-overs cricket. One can expect a good sporting surface to be prepared for this game, one which has something in it for both batsmen as well as bowlers.
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West Indies have no further injury issues going into this first T20 international. Stafanie Taylor will continue to lead the team and bat in the middle-order along with Chedean Nation and Natasha McLean. The Windies will probably open their batting with Hayley Matthews and Britney Cooper. Pacer Shamilia Connell and off-spinner Hayley Matthews are likely to be given the new balls in the powerplay.
Stafanie Taylor: The West Indies skipper is ranked third in the ICC Women's T20I rankings for batters. She has scored the most runs for her side in this format - 2844 runs which includes 21 half-centuries. Stafanie is also a key figure in the team's bowling unit having taken 84 wickets at an economy of 5.53.
Hayley Matthews: She is another vital cog in the side and will have an important role to play with both bat and ball. Matthews is among the team's top five run-getters with 868 runs as well as among the top five bowlers in T20Is with 39 wickets.
Shamilia Connell: She has been doing a pretty decent job with the ball for the Windies in the twenty-over format. The fast bowler has 22 T20I wickets to her name and the team will be relying mainly on her to pick wickets in the powerplay.
West Indies Women have won four, lost two and tied one out of the seven T20 internationals they have played this year. They played their last T20I series more than a couple of months ago in England where they lost 0-1 against the hosts in a three-match series. Prior to that, however, the Windies beat Pakistan 2-1 in Pakistan and swept the Irish 3-0 on their tour of Ireland.
Hayley Matthews, Britney Cooper, Stacy-Ann King, Stafanie Taylor (c), Chedean Nation, Natasha McLean, Kycia Knight (wk), Chinelle Henry, Afy Fletcher, Karishma Ramharack, Shamilia Connell
Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney will open the batting for Australia while skipper Meg Lanning and Ashleigh Gardner will take up the number three and four positions respectively. Ellyse Perry and Rachael Haynes will form the team's middle-order. Fast bowlers Megan Schutt and Ellyse Perry will be leading the Aussie bowling attack.
Meg Lanning: The Australia captain is currently the world's second-best batter in Women's T20I cricket. She is the team's leading run-scorer in the format with 2493 runs and an average of 36.13. Lanning's half-century in Wednesday's ODI has made her the leading run-scorer for Australia across all three formats of the game.
Megan Schutt: With 62 wickets in 50 matches, Megan Schutt is the number one bowler in Women's T20I cricket. The pacer notched up three wickets in three balls in the last game, becoming the first woman cricketer to claim two hat-tricks in the limited-overs format.
Ellyse Perry: She is a key player for Australia in both batting and bowling departments. The world's best woman all-rounder is the team's highest wicket-taker in the 20-over format with 103 wickets in addition to being one of the team's highest run-getters with 1065 runs.
Australia Women have been on a roll in the game's shortest format. They have won each of their previous five T20I series including the ICC Women's World T20 held in the West Indies last year in November. The Aussies have played 20 matches since last year and have faced defeats on just three occasions. Their most recent T20I assignment came in July during their tour of England where they beat the home team 2-1 in a series of three matches.
Alyssa Healy (wk), Beth Mooney, Meg Lanning (c), Ashleigh Gardner, Ellyse Perry, Rachael Haynes, Erin Burns, Jess Jonassen, Georgia Wareham, Delissa Kimmince, Megan Schutt
West Indies Women and Australia Women have played six T20 internationals against each other with the latter leading the scoreline 5-1.
Australia whitewashed the Windies 4-0 the last time these two teams played a bilateral T20I series with each other - a series of four matches held in Australia in November 2014.
Their most recent encounter in the format came last year at the ICC Women's World T20. The match was played at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in North Sound, Antigua where Australia Women emerged victorious by 71 runs.
Matches Played | WIW Won | AUSW Won | Tie | No Result |
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6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Australia Women are favorites to win this first T20 international at 1.06 with Bet365 and 1.02 with 10CRIC. West Indies Women, on the other hand, begin as the bookmakers' underdogs at odds of 10 with Bet365 and 7.50 with 10CRIC.
Australia outplayed the Windies in the preceding one-day international series and they were never really pushed in any of the three games. The home team, however, looks a much better outfit when it comes to twenty-over cricket and one can expect Stafanie Taylor and company to give the Aussies a run for their money in this format of the game. Having said that, they will need to be at their best if they are to beat the tourists who are the number one T20 side in the world. Australia have been brilliant on this tour so far and we expect them to continue their winning run.
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