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Bangladesh women’s team sank into the shame of a whitewash in T20 against Ireland in Sylhet. Bangladesh lost the third and final T20 of the series by 4 wickets. The Irish girls won the first two matches and already secured the series win. Today (Monday) they gave the hosts a taste of a whitewash.

Nigar Sultana Jyoti’s team was whitewashed by three consecutive losses at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium. Although they were able to whitewash Ireland in the ODI series, they themselves fell into the same shame in the T20. Although they lost the first match by just 12 runs, Nigar Sultana had to lose the next one by a big margin of 47 runs. Despite being on the way to victory today, Bangladesh girls were defeated by 4 wickets.

The last match of the series was lost in the drama of the last over. The whitewash was confirmed. Ireland needed 14 runs in the last over to win. Arlene Kelly was run out on the first ball. Set batter Laura Delaney ran for two runs on the next delivery. Delaney hit 3 boundaries in the next 3 balls of Swarna Akhtar’s over to win the match. Ireland won the match by 4 wickets with 1 ball in hand.

Batting first, the Tigresses got a shaky foundation in their mission to avoid a whitewash. Although 100 runs were accumulated on the board in 13 overs, they could only score 23 runs in the next 7 overs. Bangladesh lost 6 wickets to add 19 runs in the last 39 balls.

The hosts’ innings was stopped at 123 runs for 7 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Sobhana’s 45 runs off 43 balls was the highest score in Bangladesh’s innings. Ireland’s best bowler Prendergast took 4 wickets. He spent 22 runs in 4 overs.

Chasing an easy target, the Ireland women’s team snatched a 4-wicket victory with 1 ball to spare. Despite coming very close to victory, Bangladesh had to lose the match in the last over.
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