Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\nCaptain Hayley Matthews hit 159 and claimed three wickets as West Indies women hammered Ireland in the first one-day international at Bready. <\/p>\n
The hosts were all out for 269 in 49 overs as Amy Hunter fell just short of her second ODI century on 96.<\/p>\n
But, led by Matthews’ superb innings, the West Indies dominated with the bat and cruised to a nine-wicket victory.<\/p>\n
Her tally was the second-highest by a West Indies women’s player in ODI history, behind Stafanie Taylor’s record of 177.<\/p>\n
Fittingly, Matthews played the final eight balls of her knock alongside Taylor.<\/p>\n
The only wicket her side lost was that of Realeanna Grimmond, who was caught by Hunter on 91 from a Louise Little delivery.<\/p>\n
The visitors can clinch the three-game series on Sunday at Bready, before a final game on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Despite losing the toss and then Forbes on 11 after she was run out in the sixth over, Ireland made a strong start.<\/p>\n
The dismissal of captain Gaby Lewis, making her 200th appearance, for 39 was a blow to leave her side on 77-2 after 15 overs.<\/p>\n
As Hunter closed in on a superb century, she was bowled by Afy Fletcher, who ended the match with four wickets to her name, to leave Ireland on 224-6.<\/p>\n
Ireland could only muster another 25 runs before Cara Murray was dismissed by Karishma Ramharack.<\/p>\n
Their bowling had no answer to Matthews, who struck her 159 off 123 balls, while Grimmond’s fine support and Taylor’s experience pushed West Indies comfortably over the line. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women’s One Day International Series, 1st ODI Ireland 269 all out (49 overs) Hunter 96 (90), Lewis 39…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-685438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}