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On paper, it’s a clash betwixt the sixth and seventh placed teams. But up of its radical league fixture against Sri Lanka connected Monday, Bangladesh accelerated bowler Fahima Khatun appeared assured astir her team’s chances of making it to the semifinals of the Women’s ODI World Cup. But then, it’s easier said than done.
Despite showing resilience, Bangladesh could registry a solitary win, and now, to support its hopes alive, it needs to triumph the remaining 2 matches - against Sri Lanka and India - and past anticipation for England to bushed New Zealand and India.
Sri Lanka, connected the different hand, was robbed of the location vantage arsenic 2 of its location games successful Colombo were abandoned owed to rain. Some insipid performances added to its woes arsenic the squad could ne'er emergence to the occasion, and now, adjacent though, mathematically it tin inactive suffice for the last-four stage, the world speaks otherwise.
“There is simply a spot of mathematics, but for now, we are reasoning of winning tomorrow’s crippled first,” said Sri Lanka’s caput manager Rumesh Ratnayake.
As the DY Patil Stadium hosts its archetypal crippled of the tournament, Ratnayake expects it to beryllium a ‘typical Mumbai wicket’ which could assistance the batters. However, some teams would beryllium hoping to beryllium much accordant with its batting and amended the fielding standards. While Bangladesh accelerated bowler Marufa Akter, who suffered a backmost strain, volition beryllium disposable for selection, Sri Lanka volition besides beryllium boosted by the instrumentality of its top-order batter Vishmi Gunarathne.
