Taylor stars with bat and ball as West Indies Women make clean sweep of CG Insurance T20 International Series

The West Indies Women secured a 3-0 clean sweep of the CG Insurance T20 International Series after a 6-wicket victory over Pakistan women at the Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Ground in Antigua.

With the series already secured after they won the second match last Friday, the ladies went into this third match with their skipper Stafanie Taylor showing why she's one of the top all-rounders in Women's cricket. She bagged her first ever hattrick in T20 International cricket taking 4 wickets to initiate the Pakistan batting collapse. Then returned with the bat to take her team to victory after the loss of three quick wickets in the top order. Along with Chedean Nation with whom she shared a 41-run fourth-wicket partnership, then match-winnings 48-run partnership with Kycia Knight, Taylor earned herself the CG Insurance Player of the Match award.

Speaking to CWI Media after the match, Taylor said "I wasn't thinking wicket (after second consecutive wicket) to be honest... We know runs were more on the forefront and trying to restrict them not getting to 115, because I knew that the wickets coming down would be kind of hard to bat on. (Going out to bat) I wouldn't say panic but I knew that today was the day that I had to step up... I just thought that the wicket today was try to get yourself in and once you're in, you know that you can go big and I think that was my plan..."

Pakistan Women

102 all out (19.4 overs) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Stafanie Taylor 3.4-0-17-4

Aliya Riaz 29 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Anisa Mohammed 4-0-24-3

Muneeba Ali 18

West Indies Women

106/4 ​ (19.1 overs) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Diana Baig 4-0-17-2

Stafanie Taylor 43* ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Anam Amin 4-0-18-1

Kycia Knight 24* ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

West Indies won by 6 wickets

Stafanie Taylor was the CG Insurance Player of the Match

Shamilia Connell was the CG Insurance Player of the Series

Full scorecard for CG Insurance 3rd T20I: https://www.windiescricket.com/matches/208180/#scorecard

Full match report: https://www.windiescricket.com/news/match-report-taylor-stars-bat-and-ball-wi-make-clean-sweep/

Earlier in day, the West Indies Women A-Team and Pakistan Women A-Team played the first match of the final double-header in the T20 series. Pakistan A-Team defeated the West Indies Women A-Team by 8 wickets to win the three-match series 3-0.

West Indies Women's Head Coach Courtney Walsh was overall pleased with the showing and is looking forward to developing this side into the future superstars of West Indies Women's Cricket. Coach Walsh told CWI Media " The expereince and exposure would have done them a world of good.It was good to get them out playing and I'm expecting a better performace in the 50-over series. It's good to get the A-team girls playing and for women's cricket it's tremendous... so getting a chance now and to expose so many girls is fantastic for us because we can see what they're like in competition."

West Indies Women A-Team

99/6 (20 overs) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Sayeeda Aroob Shah 3-0-13-2

Rashada Williams 21 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Maham Tariq 4-1-14-1

Reniece Boyce 17

Pakistan Women A-Team

100/2 (18.4 overs) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Gajnabi 3-0-16-1

Ayesha Zafar 53* ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Grimmond 3-0-21-1

Kainat Imtiaz 19*

Full scorecard: https://www.windiescricket.com/matches/208217/#scorecard

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