CRICKET-ZIM/WIS-Matthews: It feels good to lead from the frontSpeaking on her impressive outing with the bat during a post-match press conference, Matthews said she was delighted to have played such a pivotal role in her side’s victory.
‘It was pretty nice to be out there and be able to spend some time and get some runs. A new PB [personal best] for myself definitely sets high goals coming into this series, so I’m pretty happy I’ve been able to start well.
‘It’s good that I can set an example out on the park in general with performances, so to be able to go out at the top of the order and get a score like that and get us into a position going into that second innings where we felt like we had a good score on the board, certainly makes me feel like I did my job,’ Matthews said.
‘I certainly feel like when I get myself in and to 50, I want to try and convert that to hundreds as much as possible and whenever I get the opportunity to score a 100 and still have a lot of overs left to bat, rather than just giving it away, try to take it as deep as possible and get a really big one. It’s not every day you get a chance to 100, so when I do get to those numbers I try to make it as big as possible.’