Women’s T20 World Cup, Group 1, Headingley<\/p>\n
Bangladesh 77-8 (20 overs): Molineux 2-14, Perry 2-14, Garth 2-18<\/p>\n
Australia 78-1 (9.3 overs): Voll 45* (32)<\/p>\n
Australia won by nine wickets <\/p>\n
Scorecard<\/a>; Tables<\/a><\/p>\n Australia beat Bangladesh by nine wickets in another eye-catching Women’s T20 World Cup performance.<\/p>\n Australia, who thrashed 2024 runners-up South Africa in their opening match, overpowered Bangladesh with bat and ball at Headingley, racing to their target of 78 with 10.3 overs to spare.<\/p>\n Fast bowler Kim Garth set the early tone, removing both openers as Bangladesh slumped to 27-5.<\/p>\n They barely recovered from that, eventually limping to 77-8 with Sophie Molineux and Ellyse Perry also taking two wickets each.<\/p>\n Australia, who were missing injured opening batter Phoebe Litchfield and all-rounder Ashleigh Gardner, raced to their target in style as Georgia Voll hammered 45 not out off 32 balls, including one glorious straight six.<\/p>\n The six-time winners face the Netherlands at Southampton on Saturday and Pakistan at Headingley on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Litchfield is expected to miss both matches, but Australia hope she will be fit for their final group game against India on 28 June.<\/p>\n Gardner missed the Bangladesh game with an ankle sprain and no timeline has been set for her return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women’s T20 World Cup, Group 1, Headingley Bangladesh 77-8 (20 overs): Molineux 2-14, Perry 2-14, Garth 2-18 Australia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-643531","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\/643531","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=643531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}