Hayley Matthews

West Indies|Opening Batter
Hayley Matthews
INTL CAREER: 2014 - 2023
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Full Name

Hayley Kristen Matthews

Born

March 19, 1998

Age

25y 76d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Offbreak

Playing Role

Opening Batter

By the time she was 11, Hayley Matthews was captaining her boys school team; by the time she was 12, she had made her debut for the Barbados senior women's team. Faced with a choice between track and field and cricket - she won a gold medal for javelin at the 2015 CARIFTA Games - Matthews, fortunately for West Indies, chose cricket, and subsequently made her international debut in September 2014 in a Twenty20 against New Zealand.

Her ODI debut, against Australia, swiftly followed, and Matthews impressed right from the outset, making 55 in the first game and a total of 241 runs - the highest for West Indies - in the four-match series. Her offbreaks also proved effective: her first international wicket, in the first T20I of the tour of Australia, was Meg Lanning, and she went on to take 3 for 26 in that game. Matthews was the highest wicket-taker from either side in both the ODIs and T20Is during West Indies' 2015 tour of Sri Lanka.

She was a surprise selection in the inaugural Women's Big Bash League, sought after by Hobart Hurricanes as one of their overseas players; her standout performance in the competition was a 51-ball 77 against Melbourne Stars, but more importantly, she worked with coach Julia Price and gained invaluable experience against international opponents.

It was an undertaking that was to serve her well in the 2016 Women's World T20, where she would make her name. Matthews made her most telling performance in the final, where West Indies were up against three-time champions Australia. Having had her 18th birthday in the middle of the tournament, Matthews took on the Australian bowlers with the audacity of youth, hitting 66 off 45 balls to help her team chase down 149 and win their first world title.
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Hayley Matthews Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
WODI75732191511926.97282267.85362388370
WT20I828241581107*20.261518104.151719327330

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
WODI757031992166894/154/1524.334.0635.9300
WT20I827514571409784/104/1018.065.8018.6300
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Hayley Matthews was in imperious touch in the final
Hayley Matthews and Yastika Bhatia gave Mumbai Indians a quick start
Hayley Matthews was all power and fury in the powerplay
Hayley Matthews and Yastika Bhatia walk out to bat
Issy Wong and Hayley Matthews let Richa Ghosh off the hook
The senior Mumbai Indians player confer on the field