AFTER seeming to have learnt from their mistakes from game two, the Australian Women have defeated the West Indies by 47 runs in the third T20 of their series to take the T20 portion of the series.

Although it was another stellar innings from Hayley Matthews, once she was dismissed, things started to fall apart for the West Indies as the Australians put on a much improved fielding performance to progressively whip through the West Indian line up.

Batting first, the Australians had another poor start to their innings, already finding themselves two wickets down inside the powerplay.

Then it was Tahlia McGrath and Ellyse Perry to the rescue once again, as they put on an 80-run partnership to steady the ship.

After another mid innings wobble, it was Phoebe Litchfield and Annabel Sutherland who produced a 49-run partnership to propel the innings forward a little bit more.

Although the Aussies were certainly pushing to get over the 200 mark in the final over they were unable to do so, finishing on 9/190 from their 20 overs. McGrath top scored with 65, while Perry made 40.

Shamilia Connell was the star with the ball for the West Indies, picking up three wickets, while four other bowlers all picked up single wickets.

The Australians began their bowling innings a lot better than they had in game two, bowling tighter lines and clearly frustrating the West Indian openers. However, once particularly Matthews got going, it started to look like déjà vu from game two and that history was going to repeat itself.

However in the 11th over, Matthews was finally able to be dismissed, skying a catch to Litchfield off Darcie Brown’s bowling.

That was when things started to fall apart for the West Indies. It was clear the Australians had learnt their lessons from game two with regards to their catching, with the hosts sticking a lot more of their catches than they had in game two, and the wickets continue to regularly progressively fall.

After Matthews’ dismissal, the West Indies lost 9/46 in just over nine overs to be bowled out for 143 with one ball left in their innings. Matthews’ 79 was by far the best innings from any of the West Indian batters, with only two other batters making a double figure score.

Meanwhile for the Australians Brown and Ash Gardner were the pick of the bowlers with three wickets each, while Kim Garth picked up two wickets and Georgia Wareham one.

The series now moves to the One Day International portion, which begins in Brisbane on Sunday before moving down to Melbourne.