Windies women go after Lankans

The West Indies women cricketers, down two matches against the visiting Sri Lankans in the six-match series, will be making a bid to get back into contention in the third One-Day International at the Queen’s Park Oval, Port-of-Spain today.

After defeats in the opening match in St Vincent and the Grenadines and in the second encounter  at the National Cricket Centre, Balmain, the West Indies will be out to get a win today. They lost the first match narrowly by 29 runs but were slammed by seven wickets in the next. Coach of the team Ann Browne had the girls in a serious practice session at the Oval yesterday and will be looking to the batters to get among the runs to give the bowlers a chance of making a match against the visitors. The Sri Lankans have already qualified for the World Cup in South Africa in 2005, while the West Indies face a play-off for one of the final two spots in Holland later this year.