Ireland vs Bangladesh Women cricket Series 3 odi matches 3-0

Ireland vs Bangladesh Women cricket Series 3 odi matches 3-0

For something big, you need to have big goals. Whether you achieve them or not, you can at least go a little further. Take the case of the Bangladesh women's ODI series against the Ireland women's team. Bangladesh started this series, which they won 3-0 today, with the hope of playing the World Cup directly. Nigar Sultana's team will have to go a long way to fulfill that dream. But it is also true, the inspiration to play the World Cup was able to weave them a little bit in the Ireland series. Maybe that is the result of 3-0!

Before the start of the series, captain Nigar said that the World Cup is long overdue. Before that, they want to move forward with this series match by match. After the Irish girls' whitewash, he can now claim that they are successful. Now ahead is the West Indies tour in January. After winning all three matches of the series against Ireland by playing matches, Bangladesh will play directly in the Women's ODI World Cup in India in July next year.

Like the first two matches of the series in Mirpur, Bangladesh women won the last match easily. After winning the toss and opting to bat, the Irish women scored 185 runs before being all out on the last ball of the innings courtesy of captain Gabby Lewis' fifty (52 off 79 balls). In reply, the Bangladesh women's team won the match by 7 wickets with 75 in hand. However, the way openers Farzana Haque and Sharmin Akhtar were playing for the second wicket, Bangladesh may regret why the victory did not come by 9 wickets.

The big achievement of the Bangladesh women in the three matches of the series was maintaining consistency in batting. In fact, batting is the biggest weakness of this team. Whether it is the ability to play big shots or adding one or two runs, neither is very advantageous. On top of that, the Bangladesh women's innings did not see three figures even once in the last three matches of the series against Australia last March. 95, 97, 89—this

In the next series, Bangladesh made their highest score in ODIs of 252 runs in the first match against Ireland. They won the match by 154 runs, which is also their record for the highest score in ODIs. In the second ODI, they chased down Ireland's 193 and won the series by 5 wickets with 6.1 overs remaining. Then today, they won by 7 wickets to make it 3-0. The Bangladesh women's team had previously thrashed their opponents in the three-match ODI series once before. That victory came against the Zimbabwe women's team in November 2021.

Since batting is being discussed separately, it is not necessary to mention Sharmin Akhtar's words in particular. She missed a century for just 4 runs in the first ODI, 43 in the second ODI and 72 off 88 balls in the last match in Mirpur today.

She hit 11 boundaries before giving a catch to Maguire while playing down the wicket. You can compare Sharmin's consistency with the bat with the changing trend of Bangladesh's batting. Or it can also be seen that the Bangladesh women's team's batting has changed because Sharmin has changed.

After 2022, she was left out of the team due to lack of form. In July last year, Sharmin got the opportunity to play two ODIs against the Indian women's team in Mirpur and scored 0 and 2. In the meantime, she worked with the current assistant coach of the national team, Mohammad Salahuddin, on batting for a while. After returning to the team in this series, Sharmin found herself again.

Opener Farzana Haque and captain Nigar must also be given credit for Bangladesh's consistency in batting. Farzana's runs of 61, 50 and 61 in the three matches of the series. Today, after losing her opening partner Murshida Khatun in the fifth over of the innings, the Bangladesh women's team went close to victory with Farzana's 141-run partnership for the second wicket with Sharmin.

After that, both Sharmin and Farzana departed within an over. However, by then, Bangladesh's victory was a matter of time. Nigar, who scored 28 and 40 runs in the first two matches, scored 18 runs off 18 balls unbeaten today. She completed the victory ceremony with Sobhana Mushtari.
Bangladesh got many occasions to celebrate success throughout the series

Is Marufa-Nahidad's bowling achievement being lost in the context of regaining rhythm in batting? Bowling is the strength of Bangladesh women and the bowlers have maintained that consistency this time too. The three leg spinners Rabeya Khan, Fahima Khatun and Swarna Akhter have been successful in keeping the Irish batsmen in chains with their bats in home conditions.

Despite being wicketless in the first two matches, Fahima was the most successful today with 3 wickets for 43 runs. And continuing her stingy bowling, off-spinner Sultana Khatun took 2 wickets for just 29 runs in 10 overs.

Ireland: 185 in 50 overs (Lewis 52, Prendergast 27, Hunter 23; Fahima 3/43, Sultana 2/29, Nahida 2/55). Bangladesh: 186/3 in 37.3 overs (Sharmin 72, Farzana 61, Nigar 18*; Maguire 2/38). Result: Bangladesh women's cricket team won by 7 wickets. Player of the Match: Sharmin Akhtar Series: Bangladesh women's cricket team won the three-match series 3–0. Player of the Series: Farzana Haque