2024-07-27 13:17:27
After the embarrassing batting against India, the girls of Bangladesh are also haphazard with the ball. She had to pay the price in the semi-final stage of the Women’s Asia Cup, losing by a big margin.
Bangladesh set a target of just 81 runs in front of India in Dambulla in the fight to reach the final. Chasing down, India secured victory with 54 balls in hand without losing any wicket.
The country is the first team to qualify for the finals. The winner of the Pakistan-Sri Lanka encounter will face India in the final.
The two Indian openers have batted brilliantly on the wicket where the Bangladeshi girls have struggled to score runs. At one end, Shefali Verma has progressed slowly and at the other end, Smriti Mandhana has stormed.
Smriti was unbeaten on 55 off just 39 balls. He picked up fifty in two consecutive fours off 38 balls. His innings was lined with 9 fours and 1 six. Another opener Shefali remained unbeaten on 26 off 28 balls. Bangladesh’s Nahida gave 34 runs in just 3 overs.
Earlier, after winning the toss and going into bat at regular intervals, the representatives of the red and green scored 80 runs in Tanetoon without losing wickets.
Dilara Akhter gave a glimpse of a good start by hitting a six off the third ball of the innings. But in the next ball, Bangladesh hit his out. In the second over, Isma Tanjim gave a glimpse of turning around for two fours. The run rate slowed down when Ishma returned to Sajghar on the last ball of the third over. 8 runs from 10 balls came from his bat.
16 runs in the first 2 overs, but only 9 runs in the last four overs of the power play! Nigar Sultana Jyoti continued to move forward with Rumana Ahmed. But the two could not score runs with the ball. On the other hand, the girls of Bangladesh kept losing wickets under the pressure of runs.
Nigger tried to keep one end of the procession. But he couldn’t ride with the bat. He scored 32 runs before being dismissed on the first ball of the last over. He spent 51 balls. Swarna Akhter scored 19 runs at the end. This run of his gave some relief to the Bangladesh camp.
Renuka Singh and Radha Yadav took maximum 3 wickets for India.