By Madhav Dada 
Bangladesh Women are touring New Zealand, and a T20I series of 3 matches started today. In the series opener match, the hosts dominated the visitors in both batting and bowling to start the series journey for themselves with a win.
The team of New Zealand Women who made 164/3 in 20 overs batting first after winning the toss defeated Bangladesh Women as they got restricted to only 32 runs in 14.5 overs.
In the match, New Zealand Women started their inning with Sophie Devine, the captain of New Zealand Women, and Suzie Bates. They made 45(34) and 41(33) respectively while batting in the game. Amelia Kerr, Maddy Green and Lea Tahuhu were the other batters from the team who made 27(21), 36*(23) and 13*(9) respectively.
Bangladesh Women utilized seven bowlers against the hosts but only three of them could take a wicket each in their name. Jahanara Alam, Nahida Akter and Ritu Moni were the wicket-taking bowlers in the game for the Bangladesh Women’s team. Bangladesh Women conceded double extras bowling against New Zealand Women in the game.
The team of Bangladesh Women started the next inning with Murshida Khatun and Dilara Akter. While they got out playing 9 and 12 balls respectively and making 3 and 2 runs respectively, other batters from the team also couldn’t make many runs. None of the batters from the visitor’s side was able to make runs in double-digit in the game. The highest run-scorer in the game for the team was Ritu Moni with 6 runs off 17 balls. Bangladesh Women got restricted to 32 runs from the hosts, in the game.
New Zealand Women utilized six bowlers against the hosts in the game. While Lea Tahuhu took the maximum wickets for the team with her 4 wickets, Hayley Jensen took 3 wickets in the game for the team. Fran Jonas and Amelia Kerr were the other bowlers from the team to take wickets in the game. They took 2 and 1 wickets respectively. New Zealand Women conceded six extras to Bangladesh Women in the game.
New Zealand Women won the game by 132 runs.
New Zealand Women are leading the series 1-0 after their win in the game.
Zainab Shafiq