Vanuatu captain Rachel Andrew etched her name in history with a rare double in women’s T20 internationals, becoming only the second cricketer to score a half-century and claim a hat-trick in the same match.
Andrew’s unbeaten 85 off 71 balls and figures of 3-10 against Indonesia guided Vanuatu to a narrow seven-run victory in their opening game of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup East-Asia Pacific Qualifier in Fiji.
Opening the innings while batting first, Andrew steadied the innings after her partner, Valenta Langiatu, was dismissed in the second over for one run. Along with Nasimana Navaika, she helped Vanuatu setting Indonesia a target of 132.
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Indonesia got off to a steady start and looked well-placed at 55-0 in the tenth over, but Navaika scalped three top-order wickets to reduce them to 113-5. Still, with 16 runs to get in the last two overs with five wickets in hand, Indonesia would have fancied their chances, but Andrew turned the game around with a hat-trick. Indonesia could manage 124-8 in the end, falling to a seven-run defeat.
Rachel Andrew breaks several records
Andrew, 27, is just the second Vanuatuan to complete a T20I hat-trick. She is also the second woman to score a fifty and take three wickets in three deliveries. Fittingly, the first to achieve both feats in the same match was her teammate Selina Solman, who had struck 56 not out and picked up four wickets in five balls to end with stunning figures of 1-1-0-4 against France. Like Andrew here, Solman was leading Vanuatu as well.
Vanuatu are currently second in Group B after the first round, behind hosts Fiji. The eight-team event will decide one qualifying place for next year’s ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Global Qualifier.
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