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BD eve team takes on Ireland in 1st T20 tomorrow
DHAKA, June 27, 2018 (BSS)- Bangladesh women’s cricket team will take on
Ireland in the first T20 of the three-match series scheduled to be held
tomorrow (Thursday) at Dublin.
The match kicks off at 7 pm (BST).
The second and final matches between the two sides will be held on June 29
and July 1 respectively at the same venue.
Earlier, on Sunday, Salma Khatun and her troops flew off to Ireland to
take part series against ahead of their ICC Women’s World T20 qualifier
campaign in the Netherlands.
The Tigresses are surely boosted with confidence after their triumph in
the Asia Cup T20 earlier this month and will hope to use that edge to secure
a place in the ICC Women’s World T20 tournament in West Indies in November.
After the series against Ireland the eve cricket team will depart for the
Netherlands on July 3.
Prior to their departure for Ireland, skipper Salma expressed her high
hope about qualifying for the game’s flagship event while adding that
becoming the champions of Asia bolstered the team’s confidence.
She said they are hopeful to qualify for the World T20 showing their best
performance in Ireland.
She said they had a very good tournament in Malaysia [Asia Cup] and later
they underwent a training camp for 4 to 5 days where they worked on their
lacking and improved as well.
In the qualifier campaign, Tigresses will take on Scotland in an official
warm-up game on July 4 before they face Papua New Guinea on July 7 in
Amstelveen, a province in the Netherlands.
Bangladesh will then take on the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates
in the following two group games 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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