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It was a communicative of 2 halves, but with a predictable ending for Australia arsenic it blew past Bangladesh successful a 10-wicket triumph astatine the ACA-VDCA Stadium present connected Thursday, thereby becoming the archetypal broadside to seal a semifinal spot successful the Women’s ODI World Cup.
Errant lines, generous extras, and an uncharacteristically sloppy fielding helped Bangladesh huff and puff its mode to 198 for nine, with Phoebe Litchfield and Alyssa Healy featuring successful the gaffes reel. But the brace compensated successful the champion mode possible, nullifying a usually wily Bangladeshi bowling portion — sans Marufa Akter and Nahida Akter — with adept precision.
After a dilatory start, Phoebe picked 2 boundaries disconnected Fariha Trisna to acceptable the people for the remainder of the innings. Healy soon joined the enactment and the 2 helped Australia enactment up 78 runs by the extremity of the PowerPlay and participate triple figures successful 13.5 overs — its quickest this campaign.
The extremity was speedy for Bangladesh, acknowledgment to accumulation hitting from the duo — Healy registering her 2nd consecutive ton this tourney portion Litchfield ticked disconnected her eighth ODI half-century on the way.
Earlier, Bangladesh opted to bat, placing religion erstwhile again successful its quality to equine a stubborn defence.
Missed opportunities
Litchfield gave Rubya Haider an aboriginal reprieve, portion Healy’s spill denied Darcie Brown an aboriginal celebration. Despite Fargana Hoque falling successful the ninth over, Bangladesh’s calculated attack helped it spot disconnected the PowerPlay with the scoreboard speechmaking 37 for 1 — its champion showing successful the tournament.
Rubya chose to unrecorded beingness connected the edge, and luck favoured her, with the edges moving distant to the fence. She fell abbreviated of a deserved fifty, holing retired to Tahlia McGrath astatine mid-on. Sharmin soon followed suit similarly.
Alana King, managing adjacent to 4.5 degrees of turn, claimed the prized scalps of Nigar Sultana and Shorna Akter, the second failing to replicate her pyrotechnics from the erstwhile game. Sobhana Mostary fought hard with a half-century to resistance Bangladesh to a workable score, but it was ever going to beryllium a cakewalk for the ascendant Aussies, who sealed the triumph with 25.1 overs to spare.
The scores: Bangladesh 198/9 successful 50 overs (Sobhana Mostary 66 n.o., Rubya Haider 44) mislaid to Australia 202/0 successful 24.5 overs (Alyssa Healy 113 n.o., Phoebe Litchfield 84 n.o.).
Toss: Bangladesh; PoM: Alana King.
