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Sep 10, 2011 Sports
By Sean Devers
After winning the ODI series, the West Indies girls lead the t20 tournament against the Pakistan ladies 2-nil after wins in Grenada and are aiming for back-to-back wins today and tomorrow at the Guyana National Stadium to make a clean sweep of the four-match series.
Since they beat Ireland in their very first t20 International in 2008, the Caribbean girls have won 20 of their 27 matches and while the West Indies male team struggled in the last t20 World Cup, the Windies girls were highly competitive and reached the semis in St Lucia.
Despite the lukewarm interest and little financial rewards female cricket generates in the West Indies, the Caribbean ladies continue to make the region proud and today they are one win away from another International series-win.
Gifted Trinidadian off-spinner Anisa Mohammed who celebrated her 23rd birthday last Wednesday with 4-9 from four overs in the last t20, has been in devastating form and her 14 wickets from the four ODIs has taken her to number 5 on the ICC female bowling rankings.
On the low and slow Providence track, Mohammed, who showed all-round ability with a solid unbeaten 25 in the ODI series, should continue to cause plenty of headaches for the Pakistanis this weekend.
Twenty-five year old Skipper Merissa Aguilleira scored the only half-century (71) in the ODI series, while Shanel Dottin and Deandra Dottin were the other West Indians to pass 30.
Stacy-Ann King is the leading West Indian batter in the t20 series with 48 runs including an undefeated 32 while Dottin (23) and Stapanie Taylor (24) are the other players to reach 20 runs for the hosts.
The 20-year-old Jamaican Taylor is among the top female batters in the world and will want to end this series by showing her obvious class.
Dottin, who turned 20 in June, became the first woman to score an international T20 hundred, with her unbeaten 112 against
South Africa in St Kitts in the 2010 World Twenty20 after plundering her fifty off just 38 balls. If she gets going this weekend under the lights at Providence, the fans who will be admitted free of charge could be in for a threat.
Pearl Etienne, the 29-year-old Dominican medium pacer has bowled well in the t20 series and is two wickets behind Mohammed (5) but the spinners, Guyanese teenager Shamaine Campbell, Taylor and Shanel Daley are expected to enjoy the sluggish Providence track.
Fast bowler Tremayne Smartt, the other Guyanese in the squad, bowled well in the ODI series but they not play in the t20s in Grenada. She will be hoping for her first game in West Indies colours on home soil.
At 31, Qanita Jalil has been representing Pakistan for the last six years and is an exciting all-rounder who showed fight in Grenada but the batters from the spin-friendly subcontinent pitches have surprisingly failed to negotiate Mohammed.
This weekend Bismah Maroof, the consistent Nain Abidi, Javeria Khan, Sana Mir and Rabiya Shah will have to match their ability with runs if Pakistan hopes for their first win against the West Indies in t20 cricket.
The visitors, who first opposed the West Indies in female cricket in 2003, could pin their hopes on Nida Dar, Jalil and Sadia Yousuf to trouble the West Indian batters tonight on South American soil.
A Guyana Junior female team, led by senior National Akaze Thompson will oppose a Trinidad and Tobago under-19 team from 13:00hrs in the opening match of today’s double header.
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