CG United Women’s Super50 Cup 2024: Barbados hand Guyana first defeat

The Guyana Women have suffered their first defeat of the 2024 CG United Women’s Super50 Cup on Friday, after Barbados got the upper hand in their encounter by 4 wickets.
After a commendable performance with the bat in their second game on Wednesday, Guyana won the toss and opted to bat first on Friday, seemingly in hope that it would go well again.
However, it was back to the old collapses, and the Guyanese Women managed to post only 128 runs in 37.1 overs before being bowled out.
For the third consecutive time, the opening pair of Mandy Mangru and Naomi Barkoye did not click, contributing respectively 4 runs and a single to the tally. Shabika Gajnabi was unable to press on this time around, mustering 10 from 24 balls, and Realanna Grimmond has had to return to the dugout after scoring a single run.

However, in a positive spark for the Guyanese Women, Shemaine Campbell played a captain’s knock of 53 off 84 deliveries to get her team past 100 runs; and Cherry-Ann Fraser pitched in with a welcome 24 off 26 balls at number 6. Those were the last double figures that the Guyanese scorecard had seen.
Allison Gordon was the pick of the Barbadian bowlers with 4-19 off 7.1 overs, while Keila Elliott bagged 3-29 off 8 overs. Shamilia Connel picked two wickets and Erin Deane took one, to assist in routing the Guyanese team.
Following a brilliant knock at the top from Kycia Knight, Barbados did stumble in the chase, but toiled hard to eventually get over the line in 41.2 overs. Knight slammed 62 runs in 124 deliveries, while her twin Kyshona added 32 from 83 balls. No other Barbadian batter got past two runs, and the remainder of the Barbados target was accumulated in extras from the Guyanese bowlers.
Niya Latchman claimed 2-19 in 10 overs, while Ashmini Munisar, Shanetta Grimmond and Plaffianna Millington each took one wicket.
Guyana will take on Trinidad and Tobago next on Monday, March 11, 2024 in their fourth fixture of the tournament.