The Indian women’s cricket team did not care about Bangladesh in bat-ball defeat. India has won the series by 3-0 with 2 matches in hand in five T20 series.
The visitors beat the hosts by 8 wickets in the third T20 in Sylhet on Thursday (May 02, 2024). After losing the toss and batting, Bangladesh scored only 117 runs. India reached the target by 7 wickets with 9 balls to chase.
Richa Ghosh and Harmanpreet Kaur left the field unbeaten. Richa Ghosh scored 5 runs and Harmanprat 6 runs.
The two openers got off to a great start in the chase. Smriti Mandhana-Shefali Verma did not give any wicket to Bangladesh till 12 overs. 91 runs came from the pair of the two. On the first ball of the 13th over, Ritu Mani himself returned Shefali with a return catch. Maximum 51 runs came from his bat. After Shefali, Smriti returned to Sajghar just 3 runs short of the fifty. This star batsman of India scored 47 runs.
After that Hemalta came and could not help much. When India was 8 runs away from victory, he returned to Sajghar with a personal 9 runs. Nahida-Ritu took 1 wicket each.
Earlier, Dilara Akhtar’s stormy batting had a great start for Bangladesh. Maximum 39 runs came from his bat. This batsman scored 39 runs in just 27 balls in the opening. Bangladesh scored 43 runs without losing any wicket in the power play based on his stormy innings. Dilara’s innings was decorated with 5 fours.
The opening pair was broken by Murshida Khatun’s dismissal in the third ball of the seventh over. Dropping for three, skipper Jyoti played a slow innings. This batsman scored 28 runs off 36 balls. 15 runs from Sobhana Mostari’s bat from 20 balls.
Apart from these three, no other batter has seen double figures. Fahima Khatun-Sharifa Khatun returned before opening the run book. Rabeya Khan was unbeaten in 7 runs.
Radha Yadav took maximum 2 wickets for India. Renuka Singh, Pooja Bhastrakar and Shreyanka Patil took 1 wicket each.