Bangladeshi women cricketers are having a busy time, Jyotira has just finished the full series with Australia. This time, Jyoti-Nahidad is facing the test of India without breaking the streak of that series.
Bangladesh will play a five-match T20I series against India at home. Harmanpreet Kaur-Smriti Mandhana are visiting Bangladesh for this series starting from April 28. On Tuesday (April 23), the India women’s team left Kolkata and reached Sylhet in the afternoon.
India’s women’s cricket team stepped on the soil of Bangladesh to play the T20 series for the third time. In the first tour in 2014, Bangladesh was defeated 3-0. They then won the series 2-1 in their last tour of India in July last year.
The first match of the five-match T20 series between Bangladesh and India will be played at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on April 28. After that, the next four matches will be held on April 30, May 2, May 6 and May 9 respectively. The first two and last matches of the series will be held at the Sylhet International Stadium. It will start at 6:30 PM. The third and fourth T20I will be played in daylight at the same venue. It will start at 2 pm and the last match will be at 6 pm.
Bangladesh team: Nigar Sultana (Captain), Nahida Akhtar (Co-captain), Murshida Khatun, Sobhana Mustari, Swarna Akhtar, Ritu Moni, Rabeya Khan, Sultana Khatun, Fahima Khatun, Marufa Akhtar, Fariha Islam Trishna, Sharifa Khatun, Dilara Akhtar, Ruba Haider Jhelik , Habiba Islam Pinky.
Team India: Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana (vice-captain), Shefali Verma, Dayalan Hemalta, Sanjana Sajivan, Richa Ghosh (wicketkeeper), Swastika Bhatia (wicketkeeper), Radha Yadav, Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar, Amanjot Kaur, Shreyanka Patil, Saika Ishaq, Asha Sobhana, Renuka Singh and Titas Sadhu.
