Rizwan and Irfan both suffered hamstring injuries in the third match in Rawalpindi, where a second-string New Zealand side won by seven wickets to level the five-match series 1-1
Bangladesh Women beat Ireland by 4 wickets to seal their first T20 series win
Shamima Sultana’s fifty has fired Bangladesh Women to a four-wicket victory over hosts Ireland in the second match and their first T20 series win - adding another feather to their hat after the Asia Cup triumph.
Published : 29 June 2018, 01:57 PM
Updated : 29 June 2018, 03:26 PM
Bangladesh chased down Ireland’s 124 with five balls to spare at Dublin on Friday.
They had won first game of the three-match series on Thursday by the same margin.
Opener Shamima now holds two of the three T20 fifties by Bangladesh batswomen.
Friday’s victory could have been sealed much easier, earlier and bigger as Bangladesh needed only 29 runs off 39 balls with nine wickets in hand.
They made a meal of it by losing wickets at regular intervals after Shamima’s (51) exit in the 14th over, which took the match to the last over.
But Sanjida Islam held her nerve and smashed a six off the first ball, taking the team to 125 for 6.
Shamima and Fargana Hoque (36) scored the record second wicket partnership of 75 runs after opener Ayesha Rahman was out in the third over.
Delany and Ciara Metcalfe took two wickets each.
Earlier, Jahanara Alam, who fired Bangladesh to the victory in the first match with a historic five-wicket haul, left Ireland struggling after Laura Delany won the toss and elected to bat first.
The right-arm medium pacer claimed the scalps of opener Clare Shillington (2) in the third over and Gaby Lewis (5) in the fifth.
The other opener, Cecelia Joyce (60), then took the Irish forward with Delany (20) before the skipper was taken out by Rumana Ahmed.
Spinner Nahida Akter helped Bangladesh keep Ireland’s run rate in check by snaring the wickets of Eimear Richardson and Kim Garth in the 16th over.
Joyce on the other end kept scoreboard ticking and took her team past 100 before falling to leg-spinner Fahima Khatun.
Fahima, however, gave 13 runs in the final over which helped Ireland to a decent total of 124 and keep the required rate for Bangladesh at more than 6 an over.
The next match will be held on Sunday.
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