WI W VS NZ W: NZ Steps Into The Finals With Semi Final Victory

The second semi-final WI W vs NZ W match of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 was played between New Zealand and West Indies. In the match, the New Zealand team defeated West Indies by 8 runs and made its place in the final. New Zealand will now face South Africa in the final on 20 October at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.

The line-up for the final of the Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 being played in the UAE has been decided. South Africa will face two-time runner-up New Zealand in the title match to be held on Sunday 20 October. In the second semi-final played on Friday, New Zealand defeated West Indies by 8 runs on the strength of their spinners.

The excellent bowling of Eden Carson and Amelia Carr also overshadowed the amazing all-round performance of Deandra Dottin of West Indies and took the Kiwi team to the final after 14 years. Earlier, the team had reached the finals of both the World Cups in 2009 and 2010 but had to face defeat both times. On the other hand, West Indies’ dream of winning the title for the second time was shattered.

WI W vs NZ W: Kiwi batting fails in front of Dottin

In this low-scoring semi-final match WI W vs NZ W in Sharjah on Friday, October 18, the batsmen of both the teams had to struggle to score runs. New Zealand batted first and could score only 128 runs after losing 9 wickets in 20 overs. For New Zealand, opener Georgia Plimer scored the highest 33 runs, while Suzie Bates also played an innings of 26 runs. However, Bates spent 28 balls. Team captain Sophie Devine also could not make much impact and was out for 12 runs.

 

Although the New Zealand team had scored 48 runs in the first 8 overs, but after that, the pace of runs started slowing down and at one time it seemed difficult for the team to reach even 120 runs. At such a time, Brooke Halliday hit 18 runs in just 9 balls, while Isabella Gage also took the team to this level by scoring 20 runs in 14 balls. The main reason for the Kiwi team not being able to reach a big score was Dottin, who conceded only 22 runs in 4 overs and took 4 wickets.

WI W vs NZ W: Carson-Amelia’s spin trapped them

West Indies’ start was even more slow and bad. For New Zealand, Rosemary Meyer and Fran Jonas put a check on the Windies batsmen in the powerplay itself and Eden Carson took a flurry of wickets. West Indies had scored only 51 runs till the 11th over and its top-4 batsmen were out.

Out of these, 3 were taken by spinner Carson (3/29). The fifth wicket also fell at 63 runs in the 14th over and in such a situation, all the responsibility fell on the experienced batsman Dottin. Dottin also hit 3 sixes in a single over to bring the team back and raise hopes of victory.

Then in the 17th over, spinner Amelia Carr (2/14) turned the match around. Dottin (33 runs, 22 balls) was out while trying to hit a six off her ball and the Windies team’s hopes were dashed. After this, New Zealand took control of the match and restricted West Indies to 120 runs and won the match by 8 runs.

 

With this, the New Zealand team has reached the final of the T20 World Cup for the third time. This time the team will hope to win its first title but it faces a very difficult challenge from South Africa, which surprised everyone by defeating the biggest title contender Australia in the semi-finals.

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