Match 6: India vs Bangladesh
Date: 24th February
Time: 4:30 pm
Venue: WACA ground, Perth
With India playing their second game in the world cup tournament and Bangladesh playing their first, both the teams would be looking to dominate and score a lead in the points table. Both the teams are in Group A along with New Zealand, Australia, and Sri Lanka.
India had won the first match, are already high in confidence since they had defeated Australia in their home soil. With an extraordinary performance by leggie Poonam Yadav and despite having an early batting collapse, India managed in shattering Australia’s confidence. As the captain, Harmanpreet Kaur had quoted earlier also, referring to how the Indian side is young and balanced, it would a curiosity to watch women in blue doing the fireworks against Bangladesh.
With India performing well in the first match and successfully grabbing the attention of fans all over the world, they would be looking to continue the same rhythm with performing even better in the batting department as well. Since the wicket is supporting medium pacers, Indian pacers shall play a crucial role.
However, if we look at the other side, Bangladesh are playing their first game of the tournament and would fresh and aware of India’s limits and strengths. They would look to start the tournament on a good note and the Bangladesh side are expected to do their homework on how they will tackle Indian balling line-up and batting power.
INDIAN SQUAD
Jemimah Rodriques, Richa Ghosh, Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Pooja Vastrakar, Shikha Pandey, Arundhati Reddy, Poonam Yadav, Radha Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Veda Krishnamurthy, Taniya Bhatia.
Probable My Dream11 Squad:
Jemimah Rodriques, Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Shikha Pandey, Arundhati Reddy, Poonam Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Veda Krishnamurthy, Taniya Bhatia.
BANGLADESH SQUAD
Aisha Rahman, Fargana Hoque, Murshida Khatun, Sanjida Islam, Rumana Ahmed, Salma Khatun (c), Nigar Sultana, Sobhana Mostary, Shamima Sultana, Fahima Khatun, Jahanara Alam, Panna Ghosh, Ritu Moni, Nahida Akter, Khadija Tul Kubra
Probable My Dream11 Squad:
Aisha Rahman, Fargana Hoque, Murshida Khatun, Rumana Ahmed, Salma Khatun (c), Nigar Sultana, Shamima Sultana, Fahima Khatun, Jahanara Alam, Ritu Moni, Nahida Akter
PITCHES AND CONDITIONS
The match will hold in the same ground in which England vs Australia was held, so the conditions are most likely to be the same. Both the team can assess the conditions in a better way by critically analyzing the same match. The pitch has a lot of bounce and carry, which signifies that it will be favored for fast bowlers. Interestingly, the pitch at WACA is regarded as the quickest and bounciest in the world. The outfield is exceptionally fast.
There have also been 21 Women’s Big Bash League matches played, out of which 7 has been won by the team batting second. Which shows that team winning the toss, would prefer fielding first. So it’s the toss on which a lot of cards of both the teams would depend upon.