Australia defeated Bangladesh by 5 wickets in the 25th match of the Women’s World Cup 2022. This is his 7th consecutive win in the tournament. 14 points from this win. He continues to top the points table. At the same time, Bangladesh has to face defeat in the third consecutive match in the tournament. He has 2 points. He is at number 7 in the points table. However, despite the defeat, Bangladesh women were able to hold many records in their name.
Australian captain Meg Lanning, on the other hand, could not open the account in the match against Bangladesh, but she continues to top the list of highest run-scorers in the Women’s World Cup 2022. Lanning has scored 358 runs in 7 matches so far in the tournament at an average of 59.66 and strike rate of 86.68.
This includes his one century and two half-centuries. He also holds the record for making the highest score of the tournament. He played an unbeaten innings of 135 runs in the match against South Africa on 22 March 2022. Australia’s three batters have scored centuries in this tournament. Apart from Lanning, they also include the names of Rachel Haynes and Natalie Seaver. Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur have scored centuries for India.
On the other hand, Bangladesh’s Fargana Haque, Rumana Ahmed and Salma Khatoon made individual records. Fargana Hoque could only score 8 runs in the match against Australia, but became the first woman batsman from Bangladesh to score 1000 runs in One Day Internationals. Rumana Ahmed took one wicket for 35 runs in 8.1 overs.
He bowled Ashley Gardner of Australia. With this, Rumana became the first woman bowler from Bangladesh to take 50 wickets in One Day Internationals. Salma Khatoon took 3 wickets for 23 runs in 9 overs in the match against Australia. This is the best performance by a Bangladesh bowler in the Women’s World Cup.
Talking about the match between Bangladesh and Australia played at Basin Reserve in Wellington, rain disturbed it. Due to this the match was reduced to 43-43 overs instead of 50. Meg Lanning won the toss and elected to bowl. went to bat first Bangladesh scored 135 runs for 6 wickets in 43 overs.
Chasing the target, Australia won the match by scoring 136 runs for 5 wickets in 32.1 overs. At one point, Australia lost 5 for 70 in 17.4 overs, but Beth Mooney and Annabel Sutherland put on an unbeaten 66 for the sixth wicket. Mooney scored an unbeaten 66 off 75 balls with the help of 5 fours. Sutherland remained unbeaten on 26 off 39 balls.
Bangladesh with this defeat women’s world cup The true hope of reaching the semi-finals of 2022 also ended. Bangladesh did not allow wickets to fall for the first eight overs, but they lost wickets at regular intervals after spinners Ashley Gardner (2 for 23) and Jess Jonassen (2 for 13) handled the ball.
Gardner took the first wicket in the form of Murshida Khatoon (12). Fergana Haque, who replaced him, scored eight runs. Sharmin Akhtar (24) was dismissed leg before by Jonassen, while captain Nigar Sultana could only manage 7 runs. Bangladesh reached the 130-run mark with the efforts of Lata Mandal (33), Rumana Ahmed (15) and Salma Khatoon (15 not out).