🏏ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2026: Group A: Ban W vs Ned W, M5, Pg 5🏏 - Page 5

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Australia Women vs South Africa Women, 3rd Match, Group A

Venue: Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester

The term 'new era' gets thrown around rather loosely in the world of sport, but it might be the perfect way for once to describe where this Australian white-ball team sits currently. Without a world title to defend for the first time in nearly a decade, the formerly all-conquering Aussies go into this tournament with a different kind of pressure to what they're otherwise used to.

They need to get their hands on some silverware again. It's also an ode to just how indomitable they were for so long as a T20 team, where they won three world titles on the trot, that even a two-year gap feels like an eternity for this incredible team. They still largely maintain a core of the players who made them the yardstick of women's white-ball cricket but there's still a fresh feel courtesy a new captain at the helm in the form of Sophie Molineux post the retirement of Alyssa Healy.

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Congratulations to Australia for their assertive win against an equally strong team, SA!!

A statement performance from Australia W with both bat and ball has sent out an early warning to the rest of the teams. South Africa, meanwhile, will need to regroup quickly, but they can draw comfort from recent history.

Group A --- Match 5

Bangladesh Women vs Netherlands Women, 5th Match, Group A, I

Series: ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2026 •

Venue: Edgbaston, Birmingham •

Date & Time: Today, 10:30 AM LOCAL

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Squads:

Bangladesh Women Squad: Dilara Akter(w), Juairiya Ferdous, Sharmin Akhter, Nigar Sultana(c), Sobhana Mostary, Shorna Akter, Ritu Moni, Nahida Akter, Fahima Khatun, Shanjida Akter Meghla, Marufa Akter, Rabeya Khan, Sultana Khatun, Fariha Trisna, Taj Nehar

Netherlands Women Squad: Heather Siegers, Phebe Molkenboer, Sterre Kalis, Babette de Leede(w/c), Robine Rijke, Sanya Khurana, Frederique Overdijk, Iris Zwilling, Silver Siegers, Isabel Woning, Caroline de Lange, Myrthe van den Raad, Hannah Landheer, Lara Leemhuis, Rosalie Lawrence

Next Match is a big one!!!

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Match 5 Group A

Bangladesh Women vs Netherlands Women, 5th Match, Group A,

Series: ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2026

Venue: Edgbaston, Birmingham

Date & Time: Today, 10:30 AM LOCAL

Squads:

Bangladesh Women Squad: Dilara Akter(w), Juairiya Ferdous, Sharmin Akhter, Nigar Sultana(c), Sobhana Mostary, Shorna Akter, Ritu Moni, Nahida Akter, Fahima Khatun, Shanjida Akter Meghla, Marufa Akter, Rabeya Khan, Sultana Khatun, Fariha Trisna, Taj Nehar

Netherlands Women Squad: Heather Siegers, Phebe Molkenboer, Sterre Kalis, Babette de Leede(w/c), Robine Rijke, Sanya Khurana, Frederique Overdijk, Iris Zwilling, Silver Siegers, Isabel Woning, Caroline de Lange, Myrthe van den Raad, Hannah Landheer, Lara Leemhuis, Rosalie Lawrence

Spin-heavy Bangladesh bank on experienced core to survive stiff group

This will be Bangladesh's seventh appearance at the Women's T20 World Cup, having first competed in 2014. They arrived in England after earning their spot in the qualification: they went unbeaten through the group and Super Six stages of the Global Qualifier in Nepal earlier this year. Nigar Sultana leads the side for the third consecutive T20 World Cup, heading a squad built on spin, experience, and a core group that has grown up together across a decade of international cricket.

Players to keep an eye on

Marufa Akter is expected to be the X-factor in English conditions, and Bangladesh would be looking forward to her pace making its presence felt in the tournament.

Shorna Akter is expected to be one of the major contributors considering she is has the ability to turn a game around with ball and bat. She took the second-most wickets for Bangladesh (8) in the Global Qualifier.

Skipper Nigar Sultana Joty carries her form from the recent tri-series, where she top-scored (190 runs at 63.33).

What's in the news

The pre-tournament tri-series in Edinburgh did not go down smoothly as they lost their first two fixtures against Scotland and Netherlands respectively, but came back strongly to win their last two games.

Off the field, reports of dressing-room tensions hogged headlines for quite some time, which forced Nigar Sultana to clear the air against allegations that suggested she is a "dictator" in the dressing room.

Where they finished in 2024

Group stage:Four games, one win, three losses. The sole win over Scotland ended a decade-long losing streak at T20 World Cups, Bangladesh's first tournament victory away from home.

How have they performed since then

Since the 2024 World Cup, Bangladesh's T20I record has been patchy at best. Ireland swept them 3-0 in the T20Is at home in November 2024, and West Indies did the same in the Caribbean in January 2025. The unbeaten run through seven Qualifier matches in Nepal was the high point of the cycle, but Sri Lanka then came to Bangladesh and won the T20I series 3-0 just weeks before the World Cup.

A record in sight

Nigar Sultana is Bangladesh's leading run-scorer in T20 World Cup history with 456 runs in 20 innings at a strike rate of 86.36. With five group games ahead, she has every chance of becoming the first Bangladesh woman to cross 500 runs in the tournament - a milestone that would cap an extraordinary decade as captain, batter and keeper for this team.

Realistic expectation

Two wins against the Netherlands and Pakistan, and an honourable group-stage exit; Bangladesh have managed just three tournament wins across six World Cup appearances since 2014, and while this is their most experienced squad yet, Group 1 is simply too steep a mountain for a semi-final push to be realistic.