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DELIVERING WORLD-CLASS EVENTS // ICC WOMEN’S WORLD T20 QUALIFIER 2018
BANGLADESH LIVE UP TO THEIR BILLING
Ireland went close in the final but experience and form told in the end
MAIN: The victorious Bangladesh team. BELOW: Ireland take a wicket. BOTTOM RIGHT: Ireland celebrate a wicket against Bangladesh.
Bangladesh’s women cricketers followed their success in lifting the Asia Cup for the first time by winning the ICC Women’s World T20 Qualifier 2018, defeating Ireland by 25 runs in the final in the Netherlands.
Having beaten Ireland 2-1 in a three-match Twenty20 International Series shortly before the tournament, Bangladesh were the highest- ranked team and lived up to their billing as favourites, the result in the final in Utrecht reversing that of the final in the ICC Women’s World T20 Qualifier 2016.
They had cruised through the group stage, none of Papua New Guinea, the Netherlands or the United Arab Emirates threatening an upset. They ensured their place at the ICC Women’s World T20 2018 by crushing Scotland by 49 runs in the semi-finals.
They were made to work hard to win the final by the Irish, who had similarly progressed sublimely through the group stage before proving too strong for Papua New Guinea in the semi-final, winning by 27 runs.
In Utrecht, Ireland won the toss and asked Bangladesh to bat, restricting them to 122 for nine, a total with which Salma Khatun’s team were disappointed, although it had been a low-scoring tournament generally. Ayasha Rahman top-scored with 46 from 42 balls and the favourites had looked well placed to post a substantial score at 80 for one in the 12th over but suffered a middle- order collapse that saw them lose five wickets for 17 runs in the space of just 24 deliveries.
Lucy O’Reilly was the key figure in the Irish fightback, the 18-year-old right-arm seamer taking four for 28 and executing the run-out of Sanjida Islam in the same over that veteran leg-spinner Ciara Metcalfe took the critical wicket of Rahman.
Having won 11 of their previous 12 Women’s Twenty20 Internationals, however, including not one but two victories over India at the Asia Cup, Bangladesh were full of confidence and in the event their total proved to be more than enough. Ireland were bowled out in 18.4 overs for 97 with Panna Ghosh, the 28-year-old medium pacer who is also a volleyball international, returning an impressive five for 16.
THERE WERE MAIDEN WINS FOR THE UAE AND UGANDA WHILE THAILAND APPEARED FOR THE FIRST TIME
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