Who will win West Indies Women vs India Women, 1st T20 2019?
After beating the hosts in their WODI series, India Women now taken on West Indies Women in the first of five WT20 internationals. The series starts on November 9 at the Darren Sammy Cricket Ground in Gros Islet, and the live action gets underway at 18:00 local time.
West Indies go into this series on the back of a 3-0 series loss to Australia in September, having also lost a rain-affected series in England too. Their last wins were against Ireland, but they will hope the batting form of Stafanie Taylor and the wicket-taking return of Hayley Matthews in the WODIs bode well for this shorter-format series.
India, meanwhile, came from behind to win that WODI series and welcomed Smriti Mandhana back from injury in the final game. She was straight into her excellent form with the bat and India will now be keen to back up their previous series win against South Africa with more success against the West Indies.
WIW vs INDW, 1st T20 2019: Where to watch/Live streaming
Live streaming: Cricket West Indies YouTube
WIW vs INDW Toss Prediction
West Indies won the toss twice in the WODI series so averages suggest India will win this one – and they may look to bat first if they do.
WIW vs INDW Weather Report
Rain is forecast for Saturday, though it appears more likely it will happen in the morning – the chance in the evening given at 24 per cent. Nevertheless, it will be windy and humid in St Lucia.
WIW vs INDW Pitch Condition
As was proved at the Caribbean Premier League, the Gros Islet wicket is a good one for batting on and the par score tends to be high.
Read on for team previews, betting tips, latest odds and match prediction for West Indies Women vs India Women, 1st T20 2019
WI Women Team News & Playing 11
WIW Team News
West Indies have only named 13 players in their WT20i squad, which includes Hayley Matthews – available after a ban imposed by the WICB – and Chinelle Henry, who should be available again after a concussion.
WIW Key Players
Stafanie Taylor: In fine form in the WODI series, she hit 94 in the first game and 79 in the third. She proved her T20 form before flying out, meanwhile, with 3-26 for Adelaide Strikers against Melbourne Renegaded at WBBL|05.
Hayley Matthews: Back from her ban, the all-round star of West Indies Women’s cricketing future got straight back on it with 3-27 in the final WODI. Playing for Loughborough Lightning in the KSL, she also has nine wickets in her last six T20 matches.
Afy Fletcher: Generally tidy and consistent with the ball, she took 1-18, 1-13 and 1-20 in the three games against Australia and has 36 wickets, with an economy rate of 5.78, to boast of.
WIW Team Form
West Indies lost all three matches of their most recent WT20i series, against an Australia team in supreme form. It means they have now lost four matches in a row since their series whitewash success against Ireland.
WI Women Predicted Playing 11
Hayley Matthews, Chinelle Henry, Shemaine Campbelle (wk), Stafanie Taylor (c), Chedean Nation, Kyshona A Knight, Stacy-Ann King, Aaliyah Alleyne, Shanika Gajnabi, Afy Fletcher, Anisa Mohammed
IND Women Team News & Playing 11
INDW Team News
Smriti Mandhana returned from injury to star in the final WODI of the series and will take a leading role again in this series. She is likely to open the batting with Shafali Verma, who made her India debut in the series with South Africa.
INDW Key Players
Smriti Mandhana: Back to her best in the final game of the WODI series with a serene 74, the 23-year-old’s next T20i half-century will be her tenth in the format.
Harmanpreet Kaur: The captain was never far from the action against South Africa in India’s last WT20i series, scoring 94 runs in a low-scoring series and taking three wickets too. The final game of the series was her 100th T20i and she passed 2,000 WT20i runs in the previous game.
Deepti Sharma: Took five wickets in the WODI series with West Indies to continue the form she showed in the WT20s against South Africa, when she claimed six wickets and bowled a brilliant match-winning spell in the first game.
INDW Team Form
India actually come into this match on the back of their biggest ever defeat in WT20i cricket in terms of runs, when they were bowled out for 70 in reply to South Africa’s 175/3 in their final game of that series. They had already wrapped up victory, however, winning the other three completed matches with Deepti Sharma, Harmanpreet Kaur and Poonam Yadav all starring.
IND Women Predicted Playing 11
Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar, Veda Krishnamurthy, Taniya Bhatia (wk), Shikha Pandey, Poonam Yadav, Radha Yadav
WI Women vs IND Women Head to Head
West Indies Women go into this series with the better head-to-head record in this fixture, having won eight of the 13 previous meetings with India – though they have not met in a T20 international since 2016. They met four times that year – once at the ICC Women’s World T20 and three times in India – and the West Indies won all four matches.
WIW vs INDW Head to Head Stats
| Matches Played |
WIW Won |
INDW Won |
Tie |
No Result |
| 13 |
8 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
WI Women vs IND Women Betting Odds
India are big favourites to beat West Indies in this series and the tourists can be backed at 1.25 to win the first match with Bet365. West Indies are as high as 4.00 to win this game with Bet365.
Stafanie Taylor is in good form though, and she is 3.00 to be West Indies’ top batsman while Hayley Matthews is back too and she can be backed at 4.50, both with Bet365. For India, Smriti Mandhana is 3.40 with Bet365, while Jemimah Rodrigues and Harmanpreet Kaur are both 4.50.
Taylor is also favourite with the ball for West Indies at 3.75, while Anisa Mohammed is 4.00 and both Matthews and Afy Fletcher are 4.50. India have a number of in-form bowlers, meanwhile, and two of them – Poonam and Radha Yadav – can both be backed at 3.50. Deepti Sharma is an outsider despite her good form, as she can be backed at 5.00.
🏆 WI Women vs IND Women Prediction
India Women were in excellent form in the WODI series and they are big favourites to kick this WT20i series off with a win too.
Nov 10, 2019
03:30 IST / 2:00 GMT
Darren Sammy Stadium - Gros Islet, Saint Lucia
WIW vs INDW T20 
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