Windies Women, Sri Lanka To Play Six-Match Series

Two of the world’s top women’s all-rounders will come face-to-face when Sri Lanka Women host West Indies Women for a six-match, white ball series next month. West Indies Women’s captain Hayley Matthews, the current No. 1, will confront her opposite Chamari Athapaththu, the current No. 5, when the two sides meet in three One-day and three Twenty20 Internationals between June 15 and 28. Sri Lanka Cricket, the organising body for the sport in the island, announced the schedule on Thursday, indicating that all three T20Is on June 15, 18, and 21 will be played in Galle, and all three ODIs on June 24, 26, and 28 will be played in Hambantota. Both white-ball series will be crucial to the two sides because the ODIs will form part of the ICC Women’s Championship, which results in direct qualification for the ICC Women’s ODI World Cup next year in India, and the T20Is will be preparation for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup this September-October in Bangladesh. West Indies Women returned home earlier this month from a Tour of Pakistan, where they won all but one of eight matches, sweeping the hosts in three ICC Women’s Championship ODIs, and prevailing 4-1 in...