West Indies Women 2-1 South Africa Women
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What was the significance of the West Indies women's T20 series against South Africa?
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This is Kimo Roach, and I listen to the Caribbean Cricket Podcast. Yes, yes, yes, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another edition of the Caribbean Cricket Podcast. I'm on half the Caribbean Cricket Podcast, Mashal St. Patrick Hewitt. And as the thumbnail suggests, this is a little video, a little short video, looking at the recent West Indies women's T20 series versus South Africa women. Now, you know by now that my mantra on the Caribbean Cricket Podcast is that you're not a real West Indies fan if you're only focusing your conversations, your content, whatever it may be. If your column inches and loudmouth inches are taken up just by talking about the men's senior team, you're not serious, okay?
It's just as important to focus on our women's side, the age group cricket, et cetera, because that's what West Indies means. It doesn't just mean the men's senior side. And a couple of weeks ago, I did a video prior to the T20 series versus South Africa women. I did a video saying, I think the West Indies women's team is improving. Now, I know that that narrative doesn't suit certain people in the region because certain people in the region have been at pains to point out that Shane Dietz don't know what he's doing and we got knocked out of the World Cup qualifiers. People of memory hold the fact that we got to the semifinals of the last T20 World Cup and it's just been narrative, narrative, narrative, narrative.
Now, None of that means that Shane Dietz isn't above criticism. Everybody in West Indies cricket can hold a cuss at some particular stage. But when I did that video a couple of weeks ago after we lost the ODI series to South Africa 2-1, bear in mind that at that point we had lost 3-0. So at that point, that meant that we'd got knocked out of the World Cup qualifiers for the ODI World Cup. lost 3-0 in the oldies to England, lost 3-0 in the T20s to England, and then lost 2-1 in the oldies versus South Africa. And I decided at that time to do a video going, I think, slightly, I think we might be improving. If you haven't watched that video, you need to go back and watch it to understand why I was certain that that was the subscript that people might be missing around the women's side.
Anyways, after that video was made, we then played South Africa women in a T20 series. It was a pivotal series because remember, there is a T20 World Cup coming up in England next year. All T20 bilaterals count for the West Indies women's team. And I don't know what people's expectations were beforehand, but I'm delighted that the women won 2-1. And it was a deserved 2-1 victory. It wasn't like we sneaked the victories and snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. I genuinely think that when you look over the piece, the women did the region proud with that series win over South Africa women. Now, just to recap the results in case you're not familiar with them. So in the first T20, we lost by 50 runs.
South Africa batted first and made 183 for six. And when West Indies came to bat, they could only muster 100. They batted out the overs, but could only muster 133 for six. In that particular match with the ball, the standout was Jazara Claxton, four overs, three for 39. And then with the bat, The standout was Janela Glasgow, 53 runs from 44 balls at the back end, back in at number seven, 53 runs. Her maiden 50, half century, sorry, 53 from 44 in a losing effort. And at that point, most people probably in their heads would have been like, well, West Indies are going to just take licks in this series. We just lost by 50 runs. It's unlikely we're going to be able to come back and challenge South Africa.
In the second T20, West Indies won by six wickets with four balls remaining. Again, South Africa batted first. This time, though, the bowler stood up. South Africa could only eke their way to 113 for six at the end of their 20 overs. And West Indies chased that down for the loss of four wickets with four balls remaining. Now, again, in that particular match,
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