Published: 20:02, 13 October 2024
Bangladesh first. Then South Africa. Today (October 13) England beat relatively weak team Scotland by 10 wickets in their third match in ‘B’ group of Women’s T20 World Cup. With this victory, the English girls were ahead in the race to the semi-finals after playing three matches and winning all three. They are at the top of the table with 6 points after winning 3 matches. If they beat the West Indies girls in the last match on Tuesday, they will go to the semi-finals as group winners.
Scotland girls batted first and scored 109 runs for 6 wickets at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. In response, England girls won without losing any wicket in just 10 overs.
Maya Bushier scored an unbeaten 62 with 12 fours from 34 balls and Danny Waite-Hodge scored an unbeaten 51 runs with 7 fours from 26 balls to lead the team to victory.
Before that, Catherine Bryce scored the highest 33 runs in Scotland’s innings. He scored this run in 28 balls with 4 fours. 27 runs from 31 balls came from Sara Bryce’s bat. In addition, Saskia Horley scored 13, Alyssa Lister scored 11 and Megan McCall scored 10.
With the ball in hand, England’s Sophie Eccleston took 2 wickets with 13 runs in 4 overs. Nat Shiver Brunt, Lauren Bell, Charlie Dane and Daniel Gibson took 1 wicket each.
Scotland, who participated in the World Cup for the first time, left after losing four of the four matches with this loss.
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