Namibia: Capricorn Eagles Endure Heavy Defeat

Namibia’s possibilities of qualifying for the ICC T20 Girls’s World Cup took an additional knock after they suffered a heavy 80-run defeat to Bangladesh yesterday.

It was their second successive loss on the match after happening by 4 wickets to america (US) on Tuesday, which put them on the backside of Group A, just under Papua New Guinea on purpose distinction.

Though their possibilities of qualifying should not over but, they must win their remaining two matches towards Papua New Guinea and Eire, and hope different outcomes go their strategy to have any likelihood of constructing it to the Tremendous Six stage of the competitors.

Yesterday, Namibia’s bowlers and fielders did fairly properly to limit Bangladesh to 144/7, however their batting fell aside towards the correct spin bowling of Bangladesh as they have been all out for a meagre 64 runs.

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Namibia acquired off to a shiny begin when Saima Tuhadeleni dismissed Juairiya Ferdous for a duck, however Bangladesh’s prime order batters quickly acquired into their stride.

Namibia, nonetheless, saved up the stress with common wickets backed up by some glorious fielding as none of Bangladesh’s batters might construct up huge totals.

Opener Dilara Akter was dismissed by Sylvia Shihepo for 25 after an excellent catch by Naomi Benjamin; Nigar Sultana was dismissed for 21 by Arrasta Diergaardt after a diving catch by Sune Wittmann; Sobhana Mostary was caught by Diergaardt off Tuhadeleni’s bowling; and Shorna Akter was dismissed by the Mwatile sisters for 23, caught by Meke off Wilka’s bowling.

For Namibia, Tuhadeleni took 2/34 and Sylvia Shihepo 2/21.

Namibia acquired off to a fast begin as Wittmann and Yasmeen Khan placed on 20 runs off three overs earlier than Khan was bowled by Rabeya Khatun for 5.

Khatun additionally dismissed Kayleen Inexperienced cheaply for 3, however Wittmann and Merczerly Gorases saved Namibia’s hopes alive with attacking knocks.

Wittmann, nonetheless, fell to Fahima Khatun for 19, and when Gorases was dismissed by Sanjida Meghla for 12, Namibia’s temporary resistance got here to an finish.

With Meghla chopping by their decrease order, they misplaced their final 5 wickets for less than 13 runs to be all out for 64.

Meghla was Bangladesh’s prime bowler, taking 4/14 off 4 overs, whereas Rabeya Khatun had superb figures of three/5 off 4 overs, and Fahima Khatun 3/12 off 3.5 overs.

Namibia captain Wittmann mentioned there have been some positives to take out of the defeat.

“I feel we restricted them to an excellent whole should you have a look at the circumstances as a result of it’s a batting pitch, and I feel the women put up their arms within the bowling and the fielding departments immediately, however we did not come to the occasion with the bat,” she mentioned.

“However properly accomplished to Bangladesh, I feel their spin bowlers bowled exceptionally properly and so they put our batters beneath a number of stress, however I feel there’s a number of positives that we are able to take out of this match.

“If we dont have a few of our prime order batters batting deep and ensuring they’re nonetheless there on the finish then its tough for the decrease order batters to get to the goal so we should simply be sure that we bat higher and strategy our run chase higher.

“Partnerships are essential – we have been speaking about that for fairly some time now, having somebody who can bat deep, and get you to the top,” she added.

That was Bangladesh’s third successive victory within the match which put them atop Group A, whereas Eire went second after beating the US by 16 runs yesterday.