Bangladesh Women’s team continued their winning run in the T20 Asia Cup with a convincing Nine-wicket victory over Thailand on Thursday.
This was Bangladesh’s third win in the tournament in four matches, which came after the successive wins against Pakistan and India.
Buoyed on by their success of inflicting first defeat on India in tournament history, Bangladesh opted to bowl first and restricted Thailand to 60-8 in stipulated overs.
Salma Khatun and Nahida Akter claimed two wickets each while Jahanara Alam, Fahima Khatun , Khadija Tul Kubra each bagged a wicket.
In reply, Bangladesh lost the wicket of Shamima Sultana (eight) early but Ayesha Khatun and Nigar Sultana shared an unbroken 54-run in ninth wicket to take them home in 11.1 overs.
Both Ayesha and Nigar were unbeaten with identical score of 25 off 28 balls.
Bangladesh will face hosts Malaysia on Saturday where a win would give them strong chance to qualify for the final of the tournament.