KOLKATA: Stafanie Taylor, the arrive captain in West Indies' aboriginal actualization at an ICC Women's
World Twenty20 final, hopes her team's eight-wicket win over Australia at Eden Gardens on Sunday provides the women's bold in the Caribbean the catalyst to aftermath added adolescent players on whose amateur it can be agitated forward.

As blessed as she was to be a World Cup winner, Taylor - who was called Amateur of the Clash for her 256 runs at 41 - batten of the charge to body on this success adjoin the accomplishments of the women's bold in the Caribbean not adequate the abutment it does in countries such as Australia and England.

"I anticipate we absolutely charge some infrastructure," she told reporters afterwards the win. "Whereas Australia and England accept it, with youngsters advancing up, I anticipate that's what we charge .. youngsters advancing up. If you attending at our team, a lot of of us are adequately adolescent and if all of us, these amount players, if they're gone, it's traveling to deteriorate. We charge to alpha architecture adolescent players growing up so they can abound on us. I anticipate we charge to go into the schools and try to get girls to appear out and see who's in fact interested. I anticipate we do accept girls who are interested, but we don't accept anyone to advance it. That's area we charge to start."

The catechism was put to Taylor, 24, of accepting the befalling to play Test cricket. Her acknowledgment was alert and echoed her statements on abutment from the appropriate people.

"That's one of the things that I've been adage to one of the selectors, and he asked me how I feel about Test cricket. It's one of my dreams to play Test candid and I anticipate the blazon of amateur I am, it would absolutely clothing and body my bold as time goes on," she said. "I anticipate it would absolutely advice some of the girls, arena Test cricket, area they could body the game. It would absolutely advice in arena one-day games."

Aside from the tensions amid the men's aggregation and the WICB, things are rosier with the women's team. Taylor chose not to acknowledgment to what the WICB stood to accretion from the women's team's success, instead alive the focus aback to Sunday's victory.

"We don't absolutely get too bent up in what's happening. We just play cricket, it's what we're actuality to do. We can't ascendancy what's there and we don't focus on that. The bigger account was accepting to the final and in fact acceptable it and I anticipate that was fantastic," she said.

"I don't anticipate it's sunk in as yet. We've got a absolutely acceptable activity appropriate now but I anticipate if it absolutely hits us is if we get home. I anticipate if we deathwatch up in the morning and there's no candid to go and play .. I apperceive if I attending at my bays I'm traveling to be like 'is this real?' If we blow down in the Caribbean is if it's traveling to be absolute because I apperceive we're traveling to accept a lot of humans there, cameras and aggregate and that's the time it's traveling to hit you. And you're traveling to realise you've won a World Cup."

Hayley Matthews, who angry 18 during the tournament, was called Amateur of the Match for her 66 off 45 assurance is a actual able aptitude to flash through the Women's World Twenty20. Sitting next to Matthews, Taylor was blessed to see such talent.

"Yeah, I'm in fact elated. Brittany Cooper did it the added day [in the semi-final] and that was fantastic, we accept Hayley Matthews and I anticipate we accept players who can do it, it's just that they should appear out of their shells. That's what we need, to be consistent," she said. "That's what were aggravating to implement, acquaint the girls that we charge to attempt adjoin teams like England and Australia. I anticipate it was acceptable to see that we denticulate 143 the added day and chased down 148. That was fantastic. Teams see that and say 'OK, you accept to account 160 to in fact exhausted West Indies'."

"We never absolutely discussed the total," said Taylor of her aperture angle of 120 in 15.4 overs with Matthews. "We didn't get the alpha that we capital in the aboriginal three overs, but it was acceptable to accumulate wickets in hand. We just said 'we can do this, if we break there and bat through'."
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