Bangladesh Women’s team maintain perfect Qualifier campaign

Sports Reporter :

Bangladesh also clinched a second straight win in ICC T20 World Cup (WC) Qualifiers, thrashing Papua New Guinea by 30 runs at Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur in Nepal on Tuesday.

Bat first; the Tigresses compiled a respectable 168-5, thanks to a blistering 14 ball-37 from Shorna Akter.

Shorna Akter hit her first six on the fifth ball. She hit 3 more sixes in the next 8 balls. She played a devastating innings of 37 runs off 14 balls at a strike rate of 264.28.Her knock with the four sixes being highest by a Bangladesh female batter in Women’s T20 Internationals, surpassing Ayesha Akhter’s three sixes in an innings.

Bangladesh hit 8 sixes in the innings. Along with 4 sixes by Shorna, Sobhana Mostary hit 2, Dilara Akhtar hit 1 and Juairia Ferdous Joyita hit 1. This is the record for the most sixes by Bangladesh in a match in T20 international cricket.

In reply, Papua New Guinea managed to score 138-9 before losing the game. Captain Brenda Tau was the top-scorer for the side with 35 while Sibona Jimmy contributed 28.

A total of seven Bangladesh players bowled in the match with six of them taking one wicket apiece. Only Sultana Khatun couldn’t put her name in the wicket-taker list.
Bangladesh will take on Namibia and Ireland on January 22 and 24 respectively in their next two matches of Group A.

The top three teams from Group A will advance to the Super Six stage, where they will face the top three sides from Group B.

The Group B included hosts Nepal, Thailand, Zimbabwe, Netherlands and Scotland.
The top four teams from the Super Six will qualify for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup to be held in England and Wales in June-July this year.