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Tigresses want to sweep series against Ireland today

July 01, 2018 00:00:00


Bangladesh women's cricket team are aiming to sweep the T20 series as they face hosts Ireland women's cricket team in the third and final T20 scheduled to be held today (Sunday) at Dublin, reports BSS.

The match kicks off at 7 pm (BST).

The Asian champions already took 2-0 lead in the series following a nail-biting four-wicket victory in the first match and also won the second match by the same identical margin.

After the series win against Ireland, Salma Khatun and her team are surely beaming with confidence ahead of their ICC Women's World T20 qualifier campaign in the Netherlands.

The eve cricket team is expected to depart for the Netherlands on July 03. In the qualifier campaign, Tigresses will take on Scotland in an official warm-up game on July 04 before they face Papua New Guinea on July 07 in Amstelveen, a province in the Netherlands.

Bangladesh will then take on the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates on July 8 and 10 respectively.

SQUAD

Salma Khatun, Rumana Ahmed, Nigar Sultana, Fargana Haque, Khadija-tul Kubra, Fahima Khatun, Ayesha Rahman, Nahida Akter, Panna Ghosh, Lily Rani, Sanjida Islam, Sharmin Sultana, Jahanara Alam and Shamima Sultana.


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