In the long run, it was a recreation of nerves. The extremely skilled Athapaththu, who ushered away a handful of team-mates as she ready to bowl the ultimate over, held hers. Bangladesh didn’t.
There will probably be loads of questions on Bangladesh’s batting efficiency. They might simply have been chasing 270 or 280 with Sri Lanka wanting comfy on 159-4 within the thirtieth over, however as an alternative the goal was a lot decrease.
Nonetheless, Bangladesh lacked intent from ball one, scoring at below 2.5 runs per over through the powerplay, struggling a top-order collapse, and finally leaving themselves an excessive amount of to do.
However no matter issues there are with their batting, if that they had taken their probabilities within the subject, that 203-run goal would have been significantly smaller.
It took them three makes an attempt to interrupt the 72-run second-wicket stand, with wicketkeeper Joty failing to take a tricky probability behind the stumps to take away Perera on 23 earlier than Athapaththu survived a caught and bowled probability towards Rabeya. It was powerfully struck again on the bowler, however she obtained two palms to it.
Perera was dropped once more on 55 and 63, the latter probability going straight to Rubya Haider Jhilik at cowl, earlier than ultimately being trapped lbw by Shorna as she tried to up the ante with companions falling round her.
Later within the innings, there was additionally a missed stumping and a missed run-out, though the latter was a little bit unlucky, with Jhilik deputising with the gloves following an harm to Joty.
Sadly for Bangladesh, such fielding woes are removed from a one-off. They’ve dropped 14 catches from a doable 27 at this event and boast the bottom catch effectivity (48.1%) of the eight groups.
They’re a aspect who’re typically on track – they’re enjoying in simply their second 50-over World Cup in any case – however poor fielding is a evident drawback which wants consideration.
