ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 started with Bangladesh vs Scotland match. Bangladesh team won this match held in Sharjah. Bangladesh team has won the Women’s T20 World Cup after a decade. Bangladesh defeated Scotland by 16 runs in a thrilling match. During this time all the players of the team became emotional. There are two main reasons behind this. One is that the team has won the T20 World Cup after 10 years, while the second reason is that this T20 World Cup was to be held in Bangladesh, but it could not be organized due to the bad political environment there.
Talking about the match, Bangladesh team captain Nigar Sultana won the toss and chose to bat. Bangladesh scored 119 runs losing seven wickets in 20 overs. Shobhana Mostri scored 36 runs for Bangladesh, while Shathi Rani played an inning of 29 runs. Captain Sultana scored 18 runs. Saskia Horley took three wickets for Scotland. At the same time, when the Scotland team came out to chase the target of 120 runs, it could score only 103 runs after playing 20 overs and losing seven wickets. Opener Sarah Breese scored 49 runs, but no other batsman could score more than 11 runs, which was the main reason for the defeat. Ritu Moni took two wickets for Bangladesh.
Bangladesh did not win a single match in the T20 World Cup of 2023, 2020, 2018 and 2016, while the team’s last win was during the 2014 T20 World Cup. Not only this, the World Cup was also hosted by Bangladesh, when Bangladesh defeated Sri Lanka and Ireland. At the same time, now in 2024 Bangladesh defeated Scotland. In a way, the team has been able to register victory in its own hosted T20 World Cup match.
