West Indies Women beat Zimbabwe Women by 8 wickets in the second T20 international at Takashinga Sports Club in Harare on October 5, 2026. They reached 108/2 in 9.1 overs after holding Zimbabwe to 106/7, taking an unassailable 2–0 lead in the three-match series.
For readers following from India, the remaining T20I is scheduled for Wednesday, October 7 at 3.30pm IST. That is 10am UTC, converted from the 6am Atlantic Standard Time listed by Cricket West Indies; it is a start time, not a confirmed Indian television listing.
Claxton interrupts Zimbabwe’s innings
Zimbabwe reached 78 with only one wicket down before Jahzara Claxton removed Beloved Biza for 35 and Christine Mutasa for a first-ball duck on successive deliveries in the 13th over. Claxton finished with 3/14 from two overs. Kelis Ndhlovu and Chipo Mugeri-Tiripano each made 25, but Zimbabwe ended on 106/7.
The scorecard shows the interruption clearly: two wickets fell at 78, and the hosts added only 28 more runs. That does not establish why each batter struggled, but it identifies the period in which a promising platform stopped turning into a larger target.
Brathwaite gives the chase room
Eboni Brathwaite struck 57 from 23 balls, including three fours and six sixes. She was dismissed in the sixth over, but her scoring had already reduced the demand on the batters who followed. West Indies’ bowling and the rapid opening contribution explain different parts of this result; the chase alone is not the whole story.
The visitors also won the opening T20I on October 3 by eight wickets, chasing 98 after Zimbabwe made 97/9. Those are the first match’s figures, not today’s score. Winning the first two games settles the series before the final fixture, although the October 7 match remains on the published schedule.
October 7: the time and the official route
The final T20I is scheduled at the same Takashinga venue. Indian followers can use 3.30pm IST for the start and the linked CWI fixture page for schedule changes. A website’s automatic local-time display can differ by the device setting; the diagram therefore shows the source time and the explicit Indian conversion.
The official CWI Match Centre provides scorecards for this series. We have not verified an India-specific broadcaster or a free video stream, so a scorecard link should not be read as a promise of live pictures. The next match offers Zimbabwe a chance to improve its scoring after wickets, while West Indies can complete the series unbeaten; those are the questions to watch, rather than an assumed repeat of this result.
Official CWI and ICC records checked on 5 October 2026. IST is UTC+5:30; AST here is UTC−4.
- CWI · October 5 match scorecard ↗
- CWI · Fixtures and time zones ↗
- CWI · Results ↗
- ICC · Series schedule and background ↗