Navi Mumbai: The West Indies women's cricket team has finally made a victorious comeback after nine consecutive defeats against India. Riding on Hayley Matthews' unbeaten 85-run match-winning innings, West Indies defeated host India by nine wickets in the second T20 International cricket match played at DY Patil Sports Academy in Navi Mumbai on Tuesday.

With this win, the West Indies women's cricket team has leveled the three-match T20I series 1-1. India won the first match of the series by 49 runs on Sunday. Its decisive match will be played at the same venue on December 19.

India lost the toss and batted first and scored 159 runs for nine wickets, which West Indies achieved in 15.4 overs with nine wickets to spare on the basis of Mathews' unbeaten innings of 85 runs. For the Caribbean team, Mathews hit 17 fours in 47 balls. Apart from her, Kiana Joseph hit 6 fours and two sixes in 22 balls. At the same time, Shemaine Campbell played an unbeaten innings of 29 runs with the help of 4 fours in 26 balls.

Matthews ensured the team's victory by making an unbroken partnership of 94 runs in 55 balls with Shamaine Campbell for the second wicket. The only success for India came from Saima Thakor (one wicket for 28 runs).

Earlier, Smriti Mandhana's (62) second consecutive half-century in the series and Richa Ghosh's (32) aggressive batting helped India post a competitive score amid the fall of wickets from one end. For West Indies, along with Matthews, Deandra Dottin, Chinelle Henry and Afy Fletcher also took two wickets each.

Amidst the continuous fall of wickets from one end, Mandhana took advantage of the three reprieves she got and hit nine fours and a six in her 41-ball innings. Mandhana held one end till the 14th over, while after her dismissal, Richa hit six fours in her aggressive innings of 17 balls, which helped Bharat cross the 150-run mark.

Mandhana, who scored 73 runs in the first match of the series, started scoring runs rapidly with Jemima Rodrigues but Rodrigues was trapped leg before wicket by Hayley Matthews after scoring 13 runs with the help of two fours in a 15-ball innings. Debutant Raghavi Bisht failed to impress and became the victim of Afy Fletcher after scoring just five runs. Deepti Sharma (17) hit some good shots but was run out due to a misunderstanding with Richa.

Dottin, who conceded just 14 runs in her four overs, dismissed opener Uma Chhetri (four) early in the Indian innings. She also dismissed Richa Ghosh and made some brilliant saves amid poor fielding by the team. She took a brilliant catch of Radha Yadav (seven) after jumping near the boundary to stop a ball going for six.

Mandhana hit some brilliant fours in her innings. She hit three fours in the 13th over against Ashwini Munisar. Richa showed aggressive attitude as soon as she came to the crease and increased the run rate of the Indian innings.