Bangladesh T20
Bangladesh’s unexpected 10-year, 16-match losing run in T20 World Cups has ended with their first tournament match victory away from home—a competition they were supposed to be hosting. Bangladesh defeated Scotland by 16 runs in the opening game of the women’s T20 World Cup 2024, although their victory was gradual and laborious at points.
Scotland’s first World Cup debut was a sobering experience for the team, and the match took place in Sharjah. Of the 15 borders that were set between the two teams, they were only able to handle five.
Nigar Sultana, the captain of Bangladesh, won the toss and chose to bat first in her 100th Twenty20 International. It made sense to field first on a brand-new Sharjah pitch and to take advantage of the high temperature of 38°C, which would deplete the team’s vitality.
But the application process was far but seamless. They had to run a lot to score 119 for 9, with the most notable contributions coming from Sobhana Mostary’s 36 and Shathi Rani’s 29, both of which were career-bests in the format.
The first of six wickets to fall for just 50 runs in 49 deliveries was Rani, the second wicket. Saskia Horley, an offspinning all-rounder, was the primary gainer from this chain reaction, as she achieved her highest T20I statistics of 3 for 13, despite just entering the attack in the 18th over. However, Bangladesh was at least able to ask Scotland to chase a run-a-ball thanks to Fahima Khatun’s 10 off 5—the only batter to record a double-figure score with a strike rate higher than 100.
When Marufa Afkter bowled an inducker that kept low to remove Kathryn Bryce, the run rate quickly increased, making it 31 for 2 at the conclusion of the powerplay. Throughout her four overs, Ritu Moni’s cunning medium pacers held Scotland in check; by the time she was done, Scotland needed to score 38 runs from the final three overs.
Sarah Bryce is so tired that there is no chance of getting such rests. On 29, after Sultana had missed the initial take behind the stumps and then bungled the second effort in front of them, the keeper-batter ought to have been ejected for sprinting past a delivery from Rabeya Khan and then somehow regaining her ground.
A further life came on 38 when her straight heave was dropped in the last over by a diving Rabeya, who made amends three balls later to remove Katherine Fraser for Nahida Akter’s 100th T20I wicket. The left-arm spinner, who is 24 years and 215 days old, is the second-youngest person to achieve the milestone, behind England’s Sophie Ecclestone.
Sarah received a third respite when she was dropped at cover, but she still finished unbeaten on 49. That she could only manage one boundary from her 52 deliveries alluded to a wider issue that left Scotland well short of their opponents.
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