2024-04-03 14:15:01
Bangladesh girls lost the series with embarrassing batting after a great hat-trick in Fariha Trishna’s brilliant bowling. The host camp ended the series with one match in hand due to the procession of wickets, despite showing a storm at the beginning when they started playing against Australia.
Despite Thirsna’s hat-trick, the visitors won the toss and batted first at the Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, scoring 161 runs for 8 wickets. Bangladesh stopped at 103 runs for 9 wickets to chase. After winning the ODI by 58 runs, Australia also won the T20I series. Earlier, Bangladesh lost by 10 wickets in the first T20.
Bangladesh got off to a great start with the bat of Dilara Akhtar. But the batsman at the other end, Murshida Khatun, was ineffective. When Murshida returned for 8 runs, Bangladesh lost the first wicket in the team’s 34 runs. Since then, the girls in red kept losing wickets at regular intervals.
Maximum 27 runs from 25 balls came from Dilara’s bat. In between, Swarna Akter scored 21 and Fahima Khatun scored 15 runs. Rabeya Khan remained unbeaten on 14 runs. No one else has seen the face of a double digit house. Gardner-Molineux took maximum 3 wickets for Ajid.
Earlier, Ajira lost his wicket for only 15 runs after coming down to bat, 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.
Fareeha scored a hat-trick in the last three balls of the innings. He took 4 wickets with just 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.
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.