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We put the brooms back in the cupboard now.

As the West Indies women avoided a clean-sweep in the third and final ODI against Sri Lanka in Grenada.

Hayley Matthews was naturally the Windies best player as she grabbed two wickets and scored her 10th ODI hundred to help the Caribbean women chase down 218 runs
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00:00Sri Lanka took first strike for the third time in the series but on this occasion the
00:04Wendy's women struck in the first over.
00:08But it took them 10 overs to snap up their second as skipper Hayley Matthews struck another
00:13victim on 44.
00:15Hashita Samawikrama has been one of the standouts for the Asians and continued her good batting
00:20form.
00:24She and Vishmi Gunaratna added 78 more to the total before the latter fell on 26.
00:30Hashita nudged another half-century before falling to a blinder on a top score of 70.
00:43Kavisha Delhari though kept the runs flowing with an unbeaten 44.
00:48West Indies pick up a flurry of late-order wickets including a run-out.
00:57But Sri Lanka closed on their second highest total of the series finishing on 217 for seven.
01:04Former skipper Stefani Taylor admitted West Indies batters haven't been at their best.
01:07sky high has not looked confident Kiana Joseph and it's an easy catch in the end.
01:12And that trend continued as two wickets fell with 12 runs on the board in the run chase.
01:19That meant the current and former skippers had to take responsibility to repair the innings.
01:26Matthews offing the fulcrum of West Indies success was the key figure once again.
01:34Stefani Taylor was more subdued but was steady as Matthews notched her half-turn.
01:38Matthews looking at her pre-eminent best in this knock so far strides to a half-century.
01:46Well played to Haley Matthews.
01:47Taylor's knock ended on 38 but the Windy's women were clearly in front at 136 for three.
01:53And the skipper finally back in nick converted her 50 into a milestone ODI turn.
02:17Matthews also surpassed 6,000 runs but held out soon after reaching her milestone.
02:23Deandra Dutting joined Chenelle Henry and started polishing off the remaining 49 runs.
02:31Henry finished on 32 while Dutting's 24 of 29 took the Windy's women home on 218 for four.
02:40The Caribbean women avoiding the ODI sweep with a six-wicket win in Grenada.
02:45Terence Clark, TP6 Sport.
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