- BATSMENRB4s6sSR13.3 soft, soft dismissal for Mithali Raj. She skips out again, Rumana held this one back to fox the batsman. This is chipped to cover. Dolly catch. She has given India a good platform, though 95/37.4 Vanitha steps out again, she does not meet the pitch this time. Nahida, who just turned 16 this month, strikes and knocks the off stump out. Vanitha misses the wild swipe. The bowler hits 62/18.3 Mandhana walks back for a duck. Fahima is pumped, she leaps and roars. This was pushed through quicker and spins back in to rap the back pad. Mandhana plays back and is pinned in front. The tracker shows that it would have hit the top of middle. The finger went up quickly. Two wickets in two overs 63/217.3 half-tracker outside off, Harmanpreet attacks it, but holes out to deep midwicket. She shuffles across again, pulling it into the hands of Nahida 136/418.1 pushed through on middle, Anuja targets the leg side but misses. She is hit on the pad in front of middle. It would have crashed into middle 141/5Extras3 (nb 1, w 2)TOTAL163/5 (20 Overs, RR: 8.15)Fall of wickets: 1-62 (Vellaswamy Vanitha, 7.4 ov), 2-63 (Smriti Mandhana, 8.3 ov), 3-95 (Mithali Raj, 13.3 ov), 4-136 (Harmanpreet Kaur, 17.3 ov), 5-141 (Anuja Patil, 18.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB Jahanara Alam 2 0 16 0 8.00 0 0 Salma Khatun 3 0 26 0 8.66 0 0 Lata Mondal 1 0 10 0 10.00 0 0 Nahida Akter 4 0 25 1 6.25 0 0 Fahima Khatun 4 0 31 2 7.75 0 0 Khadija Tul Kubra 2 0 20 0 10.00 1 0 Rumana Ahmed 4 0 35 2 8.75 1 1
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- BATSMENRB4s6sSR9.4 leg-stump yorker, which is squeezed out to short midwicket. The fielder swoops down on the ball and nails a direct hit at the bowler's end; under-arm throw. Sharmin drifts off in search of a single, she is sent back, she has to go. India get into a huddle again 35/34.3 slid through short, rushes on to Ayasha who aims a pull. She can only spoon a top edge to short fine leg. Pandey pouches it 19/17 dangled up outside off, Islam slogs and hits it in to the lap of Patil at short midwicket. She made decent connection but picked out the fielder 24/212.1 Poonam gives this plenty of air just outside off, tempts the batsman into a big hit. Rumana goes low for a slog sweep and holes out to deep midwicket. Bangladesh four down, asking rate has skyrocketed past 15 44/416.2 tossed up full and straight on off, Fahima wants to sweep it away. But she can't connect. Bangladesh are sliding towards a big defeat 68/5Extras1 (w 1)TOTAL91/5 (20 Overs, RR: 4.55)Fall of wickets: 1-19 (Ayasha Rahman, 4.3 ov), 2-24 (Sanjida Islam, 6.6 ov), 3-35 (Sharmin Akhter, 9.4 ov), 4-44 (Rumana Ahmed, 12.1 ov), 5-68 (Fahima Khatun, 16.2 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB J Goswami 4 0 17 0 4.25 1 0 AA Patil 4 0 16 2 4.00 0 0 RS Gayakwad 4 0 27 0 6.75 0 0 Poonam Yadav 4 0 17 2 4.25 0 0 S Pandey 2 0 8 0 4.00 0 0 H Kaur 2 0 6 0 3.00 0 0
Match Details
Series
Toss
Bangladesh Women , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
15:00 start First Session 15.00-16.25, Interval 16.25-16.45, Second Session 16.45-18.10
Match days
15 March 2016 - day/night match (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
India Women 2, Bangladesh Women 0
Match Notes
- Jahanara Alam dropped at 0* by AA Patil
Match Coverage
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