🏏ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2025:S L Women vs S A Women,Match.18 - Page 22

What exactly has happened?

England Women

(24/50 ov) 79/7

Pakistan Women

PAK Women chose to field.

Current RR: 3.29

• Last 5 ov (RR): 5/1 (1.00)

Poor shot selection by England team.

Pak’s bowling is always good.

ENGW 79/7 (25) CRR: 3.16

Rain stops play

ENGW 133/9 (31)

PAKW 34/0 (6.3)

CRR: 5.23 REQ: 3.22

Pakistan Women need 79 runs - 31 overs game, 2nd innings target-113 runs

No result due to rain!

The inevitable has happened. Pakistan were so near yet so far. The points have been split. They would be devastated having not got the chance to complete this game. The only portion of the game that went in favour of England was when the rains relented and the game was reduced to 31 overs a side contest. England did add some quick runs. Pakistan though started very strongly in their reply of 113 (DLS) from 31 overs. They were 34 for no loss in 6.4 overs when the heavens opened up again and the match had to be called off. This is the third game that has been rained off. And all of them have been at Colombo. We will be back tomorrow with another game from the Women's WC.

Alyssa Healy: Look I would have loved to bat. Good breeze, would help the girls. Beautiful place to play cricket. Great crowd. Two changes. Darcie Brown gets the nod and am happy to see what she does.

Nigar Sultana: We wanted to bat first. Seeing the conditions we wanted to put runs on the board. We were short on 30-40 runs in the last game. We have two changes. The thing is we do have a good bowling side. We had to give rest so that they can recover for the last few games. Hard to recover I know. We wont compromise on any game..

Bangladesh Women have won the toss and have opted to bat

Teams:

Australia Women (Playing XI): Alyssa Healy(w/c), Phoebe Litchfield, Ellyse Perry, Beth Mooney, Annabel Sutherland, Ashleigh Gardner, Tahlia McGrath, Georgia Wareham, Alana King, Megan Schutt, Darcie Brown

Bangladesh Women (Playing XI): Fargana Hoque, Rubya Haider, Sharmin Akhter, Nigar Sultana(w/c), Sobhana Mostary, Ritu Moni, Shorna Akter, Fahima Khatun, Rabeya Khan, Nishita Akter Nishi, Fariha Trisna

Pitch report: We thought it would be a chasing ground. Looks an amazing ground to bat on. Alyssa Healy showed how to deal with spin. That is a bit of a template as to how you will try to counter Bangladesh spinners.

The players are out for the national anthem - Bangladesh's first and then followed by that of Australia

Schutt to Fargana Hoque, out Caught by Mooney!! There's the catch, you'd think this was coming for a while - pitched up in that channel just outside off, draws Fargana forward into the drive, finds the edge and Mooney completes a fine catch, moving across to her right. Fargana Hoque c Mooney b Schutt 8(24) [4s-1]

Schutt to Fargana Hoque, THATS OUT!! Caught!!