Friday, December 6, 2019

Bangladesh women’s cricket team makes a record in T20 format

Bangladesh women’s cricket team put their name in the record book after bowling out their opponent team Maldives at the lowest score and sealing the victory by a big margin in their third game of the ongoing South Asian Games (SA Games) on Thursday (December 5) at Pokhara, Nepal. 

Bangladesh women won the toss and decided to bat first and put on a huge total of 255 for the loss of just 2 wickets in 20 overs. Bangladesh did not have a good start as they lost their opening pair when their score was just 19, with Shamima Sultana and Sanjida Islam departing on 5 and 7 runs respectively. Shamma Ali bowled out Sanjida while Shamima got run out.

Then Nigar Sultana and Fargana Hoque made an unbeaten 236-run partnership with both scoring their maiden T20I hundreds. Nigar Sultana scored 113 off 65 deliveries with 14 fours and three sixes, while Fargana Hoque struck 20 boundaries in her 53-ball 110.

However, coming to chase such a huge target, Maldives were bowled out for just 6 runs in 12.1 overs. For them, Kinaanath Ismail, Sajaa Fathimath and Shamma Ali scored 1, 1 and 2 runs respectively while two runs came as extra. The remaining eight players could not score any run. As a result, Bangladesh won the match by 249 runs.

Ritu Moni completed her bowling quota of 4 overs claiming three wickets at the expense of only 1 run, while skipper Salma Khatun took the equal number of wickets giving two runs in 3.1 overs. Puja Chakraborty and Nahida Akter took one wicket each while two batswomen of Maldives were dismissed run-out.


Prior to this historic match, Bangladesh defeated Sri Lanka by 7 wickets and Nepal by 10 wickets in their first two matches. The women in Red and Green made it to the final after their third consecutive win in the tournament on Thursday. The final will be held at the same venue on December 8. 

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