Gazi Sohel (Bangladesh), Vrinda Rathi (India), Morshed Ali Khan(Bangladesh, TV)
Referee
Neeyamur Rashid (Bangladesh)
Toss
Bangladesh Women elected to bowl
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All Overs
Player of the Match
Alana King
1/12
Player of the Series
Lucky Winner
Analysis
Weather Update
Dhaka,Bangladesh
Updated: 21 Mar 15:00
28.4°CThunderstorm
53%
Clouds
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Commentary
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That brings us to a close of our live coverage of this first Women's ODI between Australia and Bangladesh. For now, it's Soumarya Dutta signing off on behalf of Bidipto Datta. See you soon!
Alyssa Healy, Australia Captain - " I've played here twice now and it has been kind of lucky! We were put under pressure early on by the Bangladeshi bowlers and we had to come back into the game. It was about patience and with the spinners we knew we were always in the game. We would look to improve from the batting side of things but 220 was certainly competitive. We have got a lot of variety in our attack and the bowlers enjoyed the conditions. "
Alana King is the Player of the Match! Here is what she has to say.
Alana King: It was great to bat at that particular time after Annabel Sutherland and Ash Gardner did all the hard work. I had some fun in the end! Well when it was turning a lot in the second innings, all Alyssa Healy told me was to keep it simple and just hit the right areas.
Nigar Sultana (Bangladesh Women captain): We started really well, took five wickets early, but then, it just went downhill from there. There were some silly run-outs and the whole batting innings fell apart. We should have hung in there on that wicket, we will look to improve on that front going forward.
The post match presentation will be coming up shortly!
Bangladesh 95 all out in 36 overs Nigar Sultana 27 (64) | Ashleigh Gardner 3/22 Sobhana Mostary 17 (38) | Kim Garth 2/26
Australia have put up a remarkable performance with the ball here and it's Ashleigh Gardner who has finished things off with a couple of wickets. This has been a monumental collapse from Bangladesh as they were placed comfortably at 70/2 at the time of the first drinks break but ended up loosing 8 wickets in just the next 18 overs of the innings. It included three run outs which shows how baffling the running between the wickets was.
Bangladesh lost a couple of wickets early in the powerplay but the pair of Sobhana Mostary and Nigar Sultana, the Bangladesh skipper put on a partnership. The pair got some streaky boundaries via edges but they managed to put up a partnership of note as they put on 49 runs. It was broken by Alana King post the drinks break which triggered the collapse. Bangladesh kept loosing wickets at regular intervals from there on and it was their skipper Sultana who ended up as the top scorer with her 27.
Australia squeezed out the runs and managed to build up a string of tidy overs to create the pressure on Bangladesh and it worked. The inexperience showed from the batters as Alana King bowled extremely economically and was well backed up Ellyse Perry, whose spell saw two run outs. Kim Garth came back into the attack and along with Gardner, cleaned up the tail as the duo snared five wickets between them.
Australia win the first ODI by 118 runs and take a 1-0 lead in the three match One Day series!
36
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Marufa Akter*
0(2)
Nahida Akter
3(14)
Ashleigh Gardner
3/22
35.6 Ashleigh Gardner to Marufa Akter, THAT WILL BE THAT! GARDNER FINISHES IT OFF! AUSTRALIA WIN CONVINCINGLY! Good length flatter off-break on off-and-middle. Marufa went back to it and tried to turn it around to sqaure-leg. But she was late on the ball. The ball sped through her defense and rapped her in front of the stumps on the pads. The appeal for LBW then got upheld instantly!
Marufa Akter lbw b Ashleigh Gardner 0 (2b, 0x4, 0x6)
35.5 Ashleigh Gardner to Marufa Akter, short on off-stump. Fended away to the short-leg area off the back foot with the turn, no run.
Marufa Akhter, RHB, comes to the crease.
Ash Gardner gets her second wicket and the 9th one has gone down for Bangladesh now. This has been an absolute debacle for them.
35.4 Ashleigh Gardner to Sultana Khatun, GOT HER! Good length off-break around off-stump. Sultana hoicks with the turn off the top hand and gets it over the in-field. But the fielder at deep mid-wicket got under it safely to take the catch!
Sultana Khatun c Ellyse Perry b Ashleigh Gardner 2 (12b, 0x4, 0x6)
35.3 Ashleigh Gardner to Sultana Khatun, Oh! Good length ball on off-stump that bounces more. A miss of the clip around to square-leg on the back foot, no leg-bye.
35.2 Ashleigh Gardner to Sultana Khatun, short on off-stump. Tapped down to short mid-wicket off the back foot, no run.
35.1 Ashleigh Gardner to Sultana Khatun, over the wicket, good length slower ball around off-stump. A play and a miss with the push on the front foot. No run.
Ashleigh Gardner [4.0-0-22-1] comes back into the attack.
Megan Schutt was brought back into the attack and seems like Australia wants to wrap things up quickly here. They need to get just a couple of more wickets and with 15 overs remaining it doesn't seem to be a tough ask.
35
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Nahida Akter*
3(14)
Sultana Khatun
2(8)
Megan Schutt
1/5
34.6 Megan Schutt to Nahida Akter, full on off-stump. Nahida covers the line and blocks it to short extra cover for no run.
34.5 Megan Schutt to Nahida Akter, good length ball on off-stump. Defended to the short extra cover region from the crease, no run this time.
34.4 Megan Schutt to Sultana Khatun, slightly short around off-stump. Punched to the extra cover area on the back foot for a quick single!
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Marufa Akter
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Ashleigh Gardner
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