Last Updated on June 20, 2026, 5:08 PM AST by Anthony Morris
The West Indies women defeated the women’s team of Scotland by seven runs and maintained their winning streak at the Women’s T20 World Cup. The West Indies women’s team played a high stakes nail biting match against the Scotland team.
During this match, Scotland needed 154 runs to win the match against West Indies and right before the nineteenth over, Scotland was playing at 132-5 with two overs left.
At this point in the match, medium-pacer Aaliyah Alleyne came to bowl for the West Indies and changed the game for her team. She took three wickets in the second last over, sending Darcey Carter back to the pavilion at 59 runs. Scotland required 17 runs in the last over of the game and were all out on the last ball for 146.
Scotland kept the game right for the West Indies women in both the innings with remarkable performances both in batting and bowling. Due to the Scotland women’s bowling attack, West Indies were at 124-6 after 18 overs.
At this point, Stafanie Taylor, who missed the West Indies’ first win over New Zealand rescued the batting effort.
She scored 47 runs off 19 balls out of which 34 runs came in boundaries bringing the West Indies to a competitive 153-6 total. West Indies added 29 off the last two overs, 26 of these runs were added by Taylor.
Katherine Fraser performed remarkably well in the field for Scotland and was able to claim two wickets, including bowling Hayley Matthews, a leaping catch on the boundary, and a run out of Shemaine Campbelle on 36.
Fraser and Carter then gave Scotland a brilliant flying start to the chase. However, West Indies took out four wickets in 13 balls in the eighth over, and Scotland’s run rate dropped below the required rate for the first time.
Carter injured her leg in the fourth over and was dropped on 19. The player was struggling to run throughout the match and didn’t hit a boundary after the fifth over until the 18th. Scotland went nearly five overs without a boundary.
However Scotland stayed in the game thanks to the bowling and fielding of the West Indies team which was less than perfect. Alleyne’s bowling brought the Windies team to their final victory
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