Bangladesh women鈥檚 national cricket team will look to bounce back from their defeat in the first Twenty20 International of the five-match series against India in Sylhet in the second match on Tuesday.
The match will begin at 4pm, with T Sports televising the tie live.
The first match of the series, from a Bangladesh perspective, was marred by poor fielding and poor batting as they dropped several catches on the field, and then聽chasing 146, nobody could support skipper Nigar Sultana Joty, who hit a fifty, as their 20 overs could only produce 101-8, leading to a 44-run defeat.
Following the game, Bangladesh leg-spinner Rabeya said that they had restricted India to a chaseable total聽but聽it聽was the performance from the batters 鈥� apart from Joty 鈥� that could not deliver the win.
鈥楯oty always tried to play responsible innings in such situations.聽However, nobody else could support her聽and聽that聽is the reason behind it [poor batting],鈥� she said in the post-match press conference.聽
鈥極ur target was to restrict them to 140-150. The plan was to play ball-by-ball and get boundaries on bad balls.鈥�
If Bangladesh want to bounce back in the series in the second game, they can draw inspiration from when the two teams met in a white-ball series last聽year聽where Bangladesh lost the first two T20Is but won the final game and then drew the three-match one-day international series 1-1.
Before the second match, Bangladesh cricketers Joty, Marufa Akter, and Fahima Khatun, alongside the Head of Operation of women鈥檚 cricket Habibul Bashar, visited three schools in Sylhet and met with the students.
