Suzie Bates, Jess Kerr and Maddy Green help New Zealand Women beat Bangladesh Women by 8 wickets.
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The 1st ODI Match of the Bangladesh Women tour of New Zealand, 2022 played today at Basin Reserve, Wellington. In which New Zealand Women beat Bangladesh Women by 8 wickets.
Bangladesh Women batted first after winning the toss, and started the inning very poorly, Nigar Sultana played a very brilliant half-century inning of 73 runs with the help of 1 six and 4 boundaries in 133 balls, Sharmin Akhter scored 29 runs in 63 balls, Lata Mondal 22 runs in 49 balls, apart from this, Ritu Moni dismissed just for 15 runs, Rumana Ahmed 9 runs, Murshida Khatun 1 run, Fargana Hoque 1 run, Nahida Akter 1 run, Rabeya Khan remains unbeaten for 4 runs and Marufa Akter also remains unbeaten for 4 runs. In this way, Bangladesh Women scored 180 runs after losing 8 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs and set a small target of 180 runs in front of New Zealand Women.
New Zealand Women bowlers Jess Kerr performed very brilliantly, she took 4 wickets just for 23 runs in her spell, and Fran Jonas got 1 wicket for 42 runs.
New Zealand Women chasing 181 runs in the second inning archived the target very easily by losing just 2 wickets in just 31 overs, New Zealand Women started the inning very brilliantly, Sophie Devine and Suzie Bates came to start the inning and gave a very brilliant start with a half-century partnership of 50 runs for the first wicket, the first wicket has gone for 50 runs in 8.3 over, Sophie Devine dismissed for 21 runs in 24 balls, next batsman Amelia Kerr came to bat and she dismissed very quickly in the next ball without scoring, followed by Maddy Green came to bat handled the inning and took the match to the victory with Suzie Bates, Suzie Bates played a very brilliant unbeaten half-century and victory inning of 93 runs with the help of 12 boundaries in 91 balls, and Maddy Green also played a very brilliant unbeaten half-century and victory inning of 59 runs with the help of 5 boundaries in 70 balls. In this way, New Zealand Women chased the target very easily by losing just 2 wickets in 31 overs and won the match by 8 wickets.
Bangladeshi Women bowler Jahanara Alam took all 2 wickets for 32 runs in 8 overs.
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