Sports Desk: The Women’s T20 World Cup started with an incident. In the opening match, Sri Lanka gave South Africa a surprise by defeating them by 3 runs. Bangladesh’s women’s team will start its World Cup campaign today with a match against Sri Lanka. In Cape Town, the match will begin at 11 p.m. local Bangladesh time.
Bangladesh’s weakness is batting. It was evident in the two warm-up matches against India and Pakistan. Batting needs to improve a lot today to win against Sri Lanka. Especially in the top order, captains Nigar Sultana Jyoti, Sobhana Mushtari, and Murshida Khatun have to take responsibility. Along with that, if the two talents, Swarna Akhtar and Dilara Akhtar, from the under-19 team can bat with a bang, then Bangladesh will get a big collection.
The Pacers will have a big responsibility on the South African pitch. The pace attack of Marufa Akhtar and Disha Biswas from the Under-19 team, led by experienced Jahanara Alam, should not be overestimated.However, Sri Lanka’s batting is largely dependent on one person. He is the captain, Chamari Atapattu. Bangladesh will advance a lot if they can return the star opener quickly. But if not, there are dangers. He played an inning of 68 runs off 50 balls and defeated the Proteas. After defeating South Africa, he became very confident: “I told everyone to show the world their ability to play fearless cricket.”
Sri Lanka is very excited after defeating the Proteas, and Bangladesh’s history in the T20 World Cup is not very good. Bangladesh has won only two matches in 17 matches after participating in five tournaments. The performance against Sri Lanka was also not good. Bangladesh won 2 out of 8 matches against them. But the last of these two wins was nine years ago. Bangladesh won the first two matches against the Lankans in this format. consecutive losses in the next six matches. Can Bangladesh break the 9-year losing cycle against the Lankans?
