The West Indies won a dramatic, rain-reduced low-scoring third Twenty20 International against Sri Lanka by three wickets in Trinidad.
After the match was reduced to 16 overs per side, Sri Lanka hit 77 for eight and the West Indies closed on 80 for seven to move into an unassailable 3-0 series lead.
Stafanie Taylor scored a half-century and then took three wickets as the West Indies Women beat Sri Lanka Women by seven runs in the second Twenty20 International in Barbados.
Taylor's 62 set up the home team's score of 129 for four and she then took three for 23 as Sri Lanka closed on 122 for nine in reply, and a 2-0 series deficit with three matches to play.
The West Indies Women beat Sri Lanka Women by 23 runs in the first Twenty20 International in Barbados to take a 1-0 lead in the five-match series.
Batting first, the home side scored 127 for seven before Sri Lanka closed on 104 for eight in reply.
England's Jenny Gunn has had her bowling action cleared by the International Cricket Council following independent analysis and is free to continue bowling in international cricket.
She was reported following the first One-Day International in New Zealand on 1st March but independent testing has confirmed that she has a legal action.
The only three-figure score this week was from Matthew Wade, who hit his maiden Test century in Australia's first innings in Dominica. He came to the crease with the visitors on 157 for five having just lost their captain Michael Clarke, and proceeded to score 106 off 146 balls to take Australia to 328 - a total which proved to be enough on a typically turgid West Indies pitch.
The ICC East-Asia Pacific office has announced the squads for the upcoming Pepsi ICC East Asia-Pacific Women's Championship in Vanuatu from 14-18 May.
This tournament is the largest women's cricket event ever held in the East Asia-Pacific Region with six teams taking part including 2010 winners Japan, PNG, Samoa, Fiji, Cook Islands and the hosts Vanuatu.
Shanel Daley scored 63 and then took three wickets to drive the West Indies to a 45-run win over Sri Lanka in the decisive third and final One-Day International in Barbados.
The West Indies posted 168 for seven before Sri Lanka, set 177 to win in 40 overs under the Duckworth/Lewis method, were bowled out for 131 in reply.
Sri Lanka Women held their nerve to defeat the West Indies Women by one wicket and level their three-match One-Day International series in Barbados.
The second game was mostly dominated by the bowlers, although Yashodha Mendis and Shemaine Campbelle both scored half-centuries before Sri Lanka clinched victory with two balls to spare.
Some of Britain's most successful female business and sports women are joining forces today (25 April) to help empower girls through cricket.
Tesco Executive Director, Lucy Neville-Rolfe and England Women's captain Charlotte Edwards are part of a newly formed Girls' Cricket Board, organised by the Chance to Shine cricket charity.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) Executive Board has approved plans to increase the number of participants in the ICC World Twenty20 to 16 from 2014.
Following the first executive board meeting since the Woolf report recommended major changes to its corporate governance, some changes will be implemented.
Sri Lanka have named a 14-player squad of women to tour the West Indies which will be led by wicket-keeper Dilani Manodara.
Her vice-captain will be Sadamali Dolawatta during the siers of three One-Day Internationals and three Twenty20 Internationals later this month.
Cricket Australia (CA) have made just three changes to their contracted list of women's players for the 2012-13 season with Melissa Bulow the only newcomer.
Shelley Nitschke has retired and Annie-Rose Maloney has been omitted from the list of 18 players for the period which includes the ICC Womens' World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka and the Women's World Cup in India.
Ten women cricketers have been named for the ICC European Women's Academy, which heads back to Spain later this month.
The elite women's performance camp in the Pepsi ICC European Development Programme is returning back to La Manga Club, a world-class leisure resort located on the South-Eastern coast of Spain on the Costa Calida.
Jhulan Goswami returned figures of five for 11 as India Women picked up an eight-wicket victory over Australia Women in the fifth and final Twenty20 International in Visakhapatnam.
Australia, who had won all three One-Day Internationals and the first four Twenty20s, were bowled out for 89 and India then reached 92 for two in 14.3 overs.
Australia Women's impressive unbeaten run continued as they raced into a 4-0 series lead over India Women with a crushing ten-wicket victory in the fourth Twenty20 International in Visakhapatnam.
They were completely dominant as they dismissed India for just 85 and then raced to their target in 12.2 overs without losing a wicket.
Australia Women's dominance since arriving in India continued as they won the third Twenty20 International over India Women by 63 runs.
The victory - their sixth in a row - moved them into an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series with two matches remaining.
