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The Warner Park in St. Kitts saw an epic encounter between West Indies women and Bangladesh Women in the 1st T20I of the 3-match series. The key highlight of the contest was when West Indies ace spinner Afy Fletcher sent Sobhana Mostary back to the pavilion at a crucial point of the⛦ match turning the cou🌼rse of the game on its head.
Afy Fletcher outsmarts Sobhana Mosatry with a beauty
The incident occurred as Bangladesh Women won the toss and elected to bat first on a solid-looking surface. However, their hopes of reaching a competitive total got the first hit as opener Dilara Akter was dismissed by West Indies skipper Hayley Matthews in the 4th over of the game.
The other opener, Mosatry, attempted to develop a partnership with top-order batter Sharmin Akhter in an attempಞt to regain the run-scoring momentum. Just when the partnership started to prosper, a full length delivery lಌanded right before Mosatry’s toes and took an extra bounce to straight away hit the pads. The umpire straight away gave the Bangladeshi opener out after an appeal from West Indies fielders. Thus, she had to head back to the pavilion, further hurting Bangladesh’s prospects.
Here’s the video:
Afy is bang on🃏 target in the early innings!🎯 |
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West Indies dominated Bangladesh for a comfortable victory
The Bangladeshi could never recover from the early dismissals which proved detrimental to the intensity and pace of the Bangladeshi innings. Due to a brave half-century from skipper Nigar Sultana, Bangladesh put together a tota𒈔l♑ of 144/3 in 20 overs.
In response, West Indies women completely dominated the Bangladesh bowling unit and completed the run chase in 16.5 overs for the loss of just 2 wickets. Matthews wreaked havoc on Bangladesh bowlers and forged a 60-run knock off 54 balls supported by a power-packed 51 from Deandra Dottin off just 22 deliveries who was declared Player of the Match for her all-round abilities. West Indies women thus defeated Bangladesh wo🍸men by 8 wickets with 19 balls le𒐪ft.
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