45.5 overs West Indies Women 131 (Taylor 50, Perry 3-22, Gardner 3-25, Jonassen 2-18) vs Australia Women

Ellyse Perry and Ashleigh Gardner's three-fors strangled West Indies and bowled them out for 131 in 45.5 overs under overcast conditions at the Basin Reserve. Stafanie Taylor's 91-ball 50 was the only innings of note as West Indies unravelled in the face of Perry and Megan Schutt's opening burst before the spinners put Australia on course for a fourth successive win in the World Cup.

After a 30-minute rain-induced toss delay and a two-run opening over from Schutt, Perry's double-wicket first over set the tone for Australia. Coming off a match-winning all-round performance against New Zealand, Perry had the seaming ball ram into the top of opener Hayley Matthews' off stump.

She then drew the left-hand batter Kycia Knight into edging the next ball to wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy. Taylor set herself up to face the hat-trick delivery, an attempted yorker that ended up as a full toss easy enough for Taylor to flick for three runs.

A seemingly innocuous full toss nearly caused the undoing of the other opener, Deandra Dottin, when she was on 8. Given lbw off a Schutt delivery in the fifth over, Dottin, whose availability for this fixture had been under the cloud due to back issues in the last game, reviewed the decision. Replays showed an underedge as the ball floated past the bat on the way to plonking Dottin's back pad.

West Indies had a second lbw decision overturned soon after. A dipping yorker from Perry sneaked past Taylor's bat and front leg. It crashed into her back boot but ball-tracking revealed the slower ball to be sliding down leg.

Perry, however, wouldn't be too far from a third wicket. An agile two-handed catch by Meg Lanning at first slip proved too good for Dottin's flying outside edge in the 10th over. West Indies slumped to 34 for 3 in the powerplay, their lowest tally in the passage so far in the tournament.

Taylor had another close shave in the sixth over of Perry's probing eight-over spell when an incoming seaming delivery jagged back, clipped the top of her pad, and missed the stumps by a whisker. Shemaine Campbelle joined Taylor in the middle as West Indies laboured to 50 in the 14th over.

Second-change Alana King, the only legspinner in Australia's XI, delivered an incisive run-less second over during which Campbelle survived a review by Australia for lbw. Replays vindicated the umpire's call of the ball hitting the bat before thudding onto the front pad, though Lanning appeared displeased why UltraEdge wasn't used for the review, even remonstrating with on-field umpire Alex Wharf.

Tied up by the accuracy of King and third-change Gardner's offspin, Campbelle's inability to rotate the strike sent her back not long after. The West Indies third-drop eventually fell to Gardner, flicking one to Beth Mooney at midwicket for a 51-ball 20. Gardner took her second wicket with a ripper of an offbreak that fizzed past Chedean Nation's outside edge to round out the double-wicket 23rd over that saw West Indies plummet to 70 for 5.

West Indies' rapid unravelling extended into the loss of their sixth wicket when a bid to seal a three led to Healy running out Chinelle Henry at the wicketkepper's end. Taylor tried to mend the innings with the scarce opportunities she got at the other end. Parched of strike, often spending extended periods at the non-striker's end, she could do as best as taking West Indies past the three-digit mark. In the 41st over, Gardner trapped her lbw before left-arm spinner Jess Jonassen, who replaced wristspinner Amanda-Jade Wellington in the XI, struck twice to clean up the tail.

West Indies had brought in Karishma Ramharack for fellow offspinner Anisa Mohammed, with captain Taylor describing the move as a more favoured match-up. The below-par total, however, might make it difficult for the West Indies attack to stage a fightback strong enough to stop the Australian juggernaut.