Bangladesh’s 16-year-old spinner Shorna Akter took 5-28 as Bangladesh beat South Africa by 13 runs, their first women’s T20I win against them since 2012.
The result was Bangladesh’s first win against South Africa in South Africa with an opening score of 149-2. Opener Murshida Khatun delivered the bat for 64 not out to complete her maiden T20I against her full-time opponents. Meanwhile, captain Nigar Sultana provided momentum in the final stages with an unbeaten 34 off 21 balls.
Despite Tamzin Blitz and Anneke Bosch opening the scoring with 69 points, South Africa consistently trailed their opponents in the run chase. This was mainly due to Akhter’s exceptional spell, taking his five wickets in his last five overs of South Africa’s innings, all of which fell.
Akhter’s five-run win was Bangladesh’s fifth win in women’s T20I cricket and the first by a 16-year-old in a T20I tournament between two full member nations.
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Akhter was part of the Bangladesh U19 World Cup team that narrowly missed out on reaching the semi-finals earlier this year behind Australia and India in terms of net run rate.
They probably made history in the tournament with their win against Australia earlier in the tournament. On this day, Akhter scored 23 points in the chase against Bangladesh, but could not achieve the goal. The venue for this match was Benoni, South Africa, the same venue where they defeated South Africa today (December 3).
Actor has been selected to the team for the tournament. Although she became the team’s top scorer, she actually only took one wicket at the U19 World Cup.
In his senior international career so far, Akhter has made more impact with the ball than with the bat, taking 13 wickets in both white-ball formats and scoring just 144 runs in 14 matches with the bat. not.
p>The next South Africa Women vs Bangladesh Women T20I tournament will be held on December 6 in Kimberley.
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