Asked about her decision to persist with spinners during slog overs, she said, "I thought the wicket was slowing. But perhaps against tail-enders it probably would have been, in hindsight, a good idea to bring back Lea (Tahuhu) and Nicola Browne a bi

The Kiwis had a few decisions that did not favour them and Bates said, "That is cricket, there might have a few decisions we might have referred today, but they sort of come and go in the game of cricket but we were in a position to win the game, so unfortunately losing Sophie, who is an important player for us, put us on back foot. But the rest of us had a chance to step up and we didn't do that today." "If we had got one partnership within first five batters, we could have got home quite easily but we just lost wickets, too close together and we just couldn't get a partnership and they could squeeze the field and tight us up." West Indies captain Merissa Aguilleira said she knew her team could defend 207. "We believed that once we had 200 runs on the board, we believed that we could defend it as a team because the bowling attack which we have with spinners like Stafanie Taylor, Anisa Mohammed, Shanel Daley and (pacer) Tremayne Smartt, which definitely set the tone for us. We knew that once we had a good score on the board, we could defend it and that is exactly what we did," she said. On player-of-the-match Anisa Mohammed's all-round display today, she said, "I have seen Anisa a lot. We believe she can clear the fence and she did that today. She lived upto the expectation of her team." "Anisa Mohammed, she went out there and executed (the plans) in all areas with bat and ball. After she went in there, she knew we had a target which was set. She went and did exactly what the team required her to do at that time. It was an all-round performance," she added. Number 10 batter Mohammed scored 31 in 32 balls with four fours to propel her team to 200 and had stitched up a 45-run partnership with Shanel Daley for the ninth wicket.