2024-04-03 16:48:28
Last ball of the innings. Beth Mooney’s wicket breaks Fareeha Thirsna’s momentum. Nigara Sultana Jyoti jumps with joy and climbs into Fariha’s lap. Few have had such a celebration against Australia, but that’s the joy of a hat-trick. Fariha returned the previous two balls to Alyssa Perry and Sophie Molyneux.
Despite the hat-trick in the last three balls of the innings, the girls of Australia threw Bangladesh a tough target. The visitors won the toss and batted first at Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium and scored 161 runs for 8 wickets.
Fariha became the first cricketer of Bangladesh to achieve the milestone of hat-trick twice in T20. Earlier, he tasted his first hat-trick against Malaysia in 2022. However, Fahima Khatun, the first Bangladeshi to score a hat-trick, was against the United Arab Emirates in 2018.
Before Fariha, the duo had scored two hat-tricks each in T20 Internationals. One of them wants Konsi Awko from Uganda, the other is Carrie Chan from Hong Kong. Bangladesh’s Fariha became the third bowler to take two hat-tricks in T20 International.
Today Fariha took 4 wickets with only 19 runs in 4 overs. This is his career best bowling. Earlier he took 3 wickets with 12 runs. Apart from Fariha, Nahida Akhtar-Fahima Khatun took two wickets each.
After going down to bat, Ajira lost the wicket for just 15 runs but quickly turned around and started to spin the baton. The pair scored 89 runs for the second wicket and took the match in their own hands. The pair broke when Georgia Wareham was dismissed for 57 runs. Opener Grace Harris scored 47 runs.
After these two returned to the dressing room, the wheels of the run slowed down a bit. But in the end, Alyssa played a big role in crossing the target of 150 with 29 runs off 22 balls. Apart from this, Tahila McGrath scored 19 runs. In the first match Bangladesh batted first and scored 127 runs but lost by 10 wickets. It remains to be seen what happens now.