Tigresses look to hold winning momentum against Australia

The Tigresses will want to hold the momentum of their tournament opening win in their quest to beat six-time T20 World Cup champions Australia in their second group stage clash at Headingley, Leeds on Wednesday, report agencies.
Australia's hefty opening victory against strong Proteas by 65 runs has them sitting top of Group 1 on net run rate after each team in the group of six has played one match.
After losing in two of their warm-up games against reigning champions New Zealand by 68 runs and Ireland by 11 runs respectively, Bangladesh eased home in a nerve-wracking final over of their first match of the tournament against the Netherlands, securing a six-wicket win. The tigresses never looked in any real danger of failing to reach their target with two set batters and plenty of wickets in hand.
With the confidence of the wins in the final three games in their tri-series against Scotland and Netherlands in Edinburgh, the Tigresses would want to cling to their hopes of pulling up an upset to stay ahead among the top two of the group for qualification to the semi-final. The Tigresses had embraced defeat in the first two games of the series which ended in the first week of June.
Prior to their massive win against Protreas, who reached the last three major women's finals, Australia swept the West Indies 3-0 in St Vincent and the Grenadines in March, but suffered a T20 series loss on home soil to India in February, going down 1-2.
Australia relied on spin at their opening game of the tournament deploying Sophie Molineux, Ashleigh Gardner, Georgia Wareham and Alana King. Eyes will be on Australia's most experienced pace bowler Megan Schutt who was brought as a change before the Headingley challenge.
Juairiya Ferdous, 20, hit 50 from just 33 balls in Bangladesh's against Netherlands, while also hitting 50 in their warm-up against Ireland.
A former member of their U19 side, Ferdous is just 14 matches into her T20I career after debuting earlier this year and will be an unknown prospect for the Aussie bowlers.
Annabel Sutherland, Georgia Wareham and Phoebe Litchfield are all familiar with the conditions of Headingley having played in UK's professional cricket league The Hundred, while a host of other Australia players will be able to draw on recent experience at the venue thanks to the 100-ball tournament. However, Australia have never played a T20I at the ground and last played an international at Headingley in a 2001 Test match.