West Indies Women: World Cup performance plasters over structural cracks
10.07.26, 18:57 Updated 10.07.26, 18:57
Machel Hewitt
“Within the West Indies, we don’t always have the funds required. We are competing against teams like Australia who, realistically, based on systems and opportunities, we’re not supposed to beat. But we still come here and show up, and we put out some magical performances sometimes.”
Hayley Matthews post T20 World Cup semi-final 8-wicket defeat.
Rarely can a comment highlighting funding disparities have hit the right tone without sounding like sour grapes following a semi-final defeat.
Hayley Matthews has long been a trailblazer of the women’s game, both in the Caribbean and far beyond its boundaries. When she speaks, you listen, and her words merely echoed what keen students of the women’s game in the Caribbean have made clear for some time.
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