The Tigresses are at their historical high winning nine of their last ten matches. The Women’s World T20 qualifier hosts, the Netherlands, have become the latest victim of the Asian champions in a group encounter.

After being sent into bat the Netherlands batting line-up couldn’t handle the sublime Bangladesh bowling attack and hence were bundled out for a paltry total of 42 runs. Such was the scale of debacle that six of their batters couldn’t even manage to open their account.

Sterre Kalis played the highest individual innings of 15 runs for the Netherlands before Dennise Hannema got out for 14.

The Salma Khatun-led women gave no chance to the opponents as the bowlers teamed up greatly to skittle out the hosts in 18 overs. Rumana Ahmed and Fahima Khatun ripped into the Dutch batting line-up by taking three wickets each. Panna Ghosh also took 2 scalps while Nahida Alam and the Bangladesh skipper shared the remaining wickets between themselves.

In reply, Bangladesh didn’t have any great knock at their disposal and neither did they need one after the opening pair posted 22 runs. Silver Sieger made the breakthrough for the Netherlands by bowling out Ayasha Rahman for 6 runs and the next one to return to the pavilion was another opener Shamima Sultana, who got dismissed by Cher van Slobbe for 14 runs.

Sieger struck again to send Jahanara Alam back to the hut for 4 runs. Fargana Hoque then prevented further wicket-loss and scored 11 runs before Rumana Ahmed steered her side home by hitting a boundary.

Bangladesh will take on the United Arab Emirates in the next group match on July 10 and the Netherlands will face Papua New Guinea on the same day.

 

Scores:

NEDW 42 all-out (18 Overs)