ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, Group 1, Edgbaston<\/p>\n
Netherlands 139-8 (20 overs): De Leede 50 (45); Marufa 2-31<\/p>\n
Bangladesh 141-4 (19.1 overs): Ferdous 50 (33); De Lange 2-27<\/p>\n
Bangladesh won by six wickets<\/p>\n
Scorecard<\/a>; Table<\/a> <\/p>\n Bangladesh avoided a scare in their opening match of the Women’s T20 World Cup as they beat the Netherlands by six wickets at Edgbaston. <\/p>\n They made a positive start to their chase of 140 as Juairiya Ferdous and Dilara Akter Dola added 67 for the first wicket before a mini collapse to 85-4. <\/p>\n The Netherlands’ bowlers were in the game until the final over but with only three required, Shorna Akter struck a boundary from the first ball to get over the line. <\/p>\n Shorna and Sharmin Akter Supta added 56 for the fifth wicket and the latter finished unbeaten on 37 after Ferdous’ fifty at the top of the order. <\/p>\n Netherlands spinner Caroline de Lange, who has given up her job as a doctor to play in the tournament, was the pick of the bowlers with 2-27 as she removed set batter Ferdous and Bangladesh captain Nigar Sultana Joty for a golden duck. <\/p>\n The Dutch are playing in their first Women’s T20 World Cup and came close to an upset but their batting relied too much on captain Babette de Leede.<\/p>\n De Leede top-scored with 50 but Heather Siegers’ 16 was the next-highest contribution. Established Yorkshire batter Sterre Kalis was bowled by Rabeya Khan for just four. <\/p>\n Both have very difficult games to follow on Wednesday, with Bangladesh taking on Australia and the Netherlands facing India. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, Group 1, Edgbaston Netherlands 139-8 (20 overs): De Leede 50 (45); Marufa 2-31…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-638418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}