-Vinay Kumar
ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, 2022 saw a very interesting match between Bangladesh and West Indies (BANW vs WIW) on 18 March 2022. In the first innings of the match, the batting team was reduced to a low score. So it was difficult to say anything. Bangladesh needed just 8 runs to win in the final over of the match, but 3 balls ago, West Indies nailed it and snatched the prey from Bangladesh’s jaws, winning the match by 4 runs.
West Indies’ 3 spin bowlers Mathews, Effie Fletcher and Stephanie Taylor uprooted Bangladesh’s 10 wickets for 73 runs. The history of the World Cup tells that, for the first time in the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, all 10 wickets of the opposition team were blown by spin bowlers.
With this win, West Indies moved up to the third position in the points table of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, 2022. West Indies have played a total of 5 matches in this tournament so far, with this being their third win. On the other hand, Bangladesh team has had to face defeat in 3 matches in total 4 matches played so far.
In the 17th match of the latest World Cup tournament played at Bay Oval Stadium, New Zealand, Bangladesh captain Nigar Sultana won the toss and bowled first. West Indies batted first and could score only 140 runs in 50 overs for the loss of 9 wickets. But, chasing this low score target, Bangladesh’s team came out on the field for 136 runs in 49.3 overs and West Indies won the match.
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For Bangladesh, Nahida Akhtar (25 not out) kept Bangladesh’s victory hope alive till the last over. However, taking a run on the second ball of the last over cost him dearly as West Indies’ constituent spinner Taylor ended the game by bowling 11th number batsman Fariha Trishna on the next ball. Apart from Nahida Akhtar, Sharmin Akhtar (17 runs), Fargana Haque (23 runs), Bangladesh captain Nigar Sultana (25 runs) and Salma Khatoon (23 runs) could only touch the double digit figure, the rest were settled in single digits.
Earlier, for the West Indies team, wicketkeeper-batsman Stephanie Campbell faced 107 balls and scored 53 runs with the help of 5 fours and was also not out. Apart from them, only Haley Matthews (18 runs), Deandra Dottin (17 runs) and Effie Fletcher could touch double digits. Nahida and Salma Khatun took 2 wickets each for Bangladesh.
The spin bowlers of three played a big role in this victory of West Indies. Off spinner Haley Mathews took 4 wickets for 15 runs in the bowling of 10 overs. Leg spinner Effie Fletcher sent 3 players to the pavilion for 29 runs in his 10 overs bowling. And off-spinner Stephanie Taylor paved the way for 3 batsmen to return for 29 runs in her 9.3 overs bowling.