2 hours ago T20 World Cup, Group 2, Headingley
West Indies 153-6 (20 overs): Taylor 47* (19); Fraser 2-34
Scotland 146 (20 overs): Carter 59 (62), Lister 33 (25)
West Indies won by 7 runs
Scotland came up agonisingly abbreviated of a celebrated triumph astatine the T20 World Cup arsenic West Indies someway came done to triumph a tumultuous crippled astatine Headingley.
Put connected the backmost ft by Stafanie Taylor's 19-ball 47 not retired and having mislaid 4 wickets for 7 runs successful their pursuit of 154, Darcey Carter and Ailsa Lister took the Scots to the constituent of needing 22 from the past 2 overs.
Deandra Dottin was successful tears portion conceding 13 from the 18th implicit but Windies seamer Aaliyah Alleyne held her nervus done the hostility to disregard Carter for 59, Lister 33 and Kirstie Gordon archetypal shot successful the penultimate over.
Still Scotland refused to spell quietly. They fought connected to the constituent of needing 13 from the past 4 balls with 2 wickets left, lone for Qiana Joseph, who had antecedently dropped catches and bowled 2 horribly-timed no-balls, to adjacent retired a seven-run triumph - Scotland dismissed for 146.
Scotland were superb for overmuch of the archetypal innings - diversion successful the tract and clever with the shot - but seasoned Taylor, playing her archetypal lucifer of the tourney astatine 35, deed 3 sixes successful her past 5 balls to boost an innings that was floundering astatine 85-5 successful the 15th over.
That, ultimately, was decisive.
Having beaten Ireland for their archetypal World Cup triumph connected Saturday, Scotland's hopes of progressing are not implicit but, aft being denied a large scalp that would person fixed them a existent changeable astatine a semi-final place, they play England adjacent connected Saturday.
West Indies are adjacent successful enactment connected Sunday against Sri Lanka successful Bristol.
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