Key events
3rd over: Bangladesh 10-1 (Sobhana 1, Murshida 6) Schutt continues her spell and Mushida looks more cautious, seeing the swing Schutt is continuing to generate. Another edge from Schutt’s bowling flies straight to Mooney at slip, but she can’t hold it – Schutt will be very disappointed with that drop. After that let off, Murshida gets herself off strike and Sobhana gets her first look at Schutt, safely defending the last ball of the over.
2nd over: Bangladesh 9-1 (Sobhana 1, Murshida 5) Garth with the new ball from the other end and she starts to Sobhana who hasn’t faced a ball yet. Garth beats her with an outswinger first ball and she’s probably happy she didn’t get bat on it because it likely would have flown straight to Healy. Next ball, Sobhana plays one nice and straight and dashes down for a single to get off the mark. Then we get one of the weird quirks of a wicketkeeper captain when Healy runs down to give Garth some pointers. Is it just me who feels ill at ease seeing the wicketkeeper and the bowler standing next to each other? Unfortunately whatever advice Healy had hasn’t done the trick – Garth bowls a wide and next ball Bangladesh pick up their first boundary through Murshida. This hasn’t been a brilliant start for Garth, she’s missed her line on a number of occasions.
1st over: Bangladesh 1-1 (Sobhana 0, Murshida 0) Schutt gets swing right from the start, but she begins with a wide before tightening up her line. Her third ball (the second of the over because of that wide) gets the edge she’s looking for and brings a new batter to the crease. It’s a very good over from Schutt – the wicket and just the one extra from it.
WICKET! Fargana Hoque Pinky c Healy b Schutt 0
Not the start Bangladesh were after, Schutt getting the wicket on just her third ball. The ball catches the edge of the bat and the opener has to go.
All the chat over on Twitter is about Alana King naturally. Sutherland was the anchor at the end, but King’s incredible late hitting in the last over might be the difference. What can she do with the ball? Teams are heading back out on to the field now and it looks like Megan Schutt has the new ball.
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Megan Maurice
Thanks Geoff, I always love your work. Hello everyone, it’s a pleasure to be your host for the second innings this lovely Thursday evening (or morning, or afternoon depending where in world you’re joining us from). So far, the Bangladesh Cricket YouTube channel has served us well to guide you through this match, so please keep your fingers crossed it continues to do so as we make our way through this run chase.
Geoff Lemon
That’s it from me, your friend for the run chase will be Megan Maurice.
Bangladesh need 214 to win
It feels safe to say that Bangladesh have blown that. They were all over Australia early, even with some dropped catches and misfields. Five down for 78, six down for 112 when Gardner was out. But Sutherland is playing so well that she found a way, Wareham gave support, then King finished in style. As they usually do when they have a bad start, Australia got away with thanks to depth.
Of course we’ll have to see what Bangladesh can do in reply, but they have never made as many as 214 to win a one-day chase, and they’ve only ever won twice when chasing more than 200.
Sheesh. Twenty nine runs from the final over.
50th over: Australia 213-7 (Sutherland 58, King 46) Fahima with the 50th over, not sure she’s the right call when they’re going to attack. Marufa got dragged after going for one boundary earlier. Sutherland drags her big shot to long on for one, then King belts her second six over midwicket! And her third! She’s setting up outside the off stump so she can hit everything to leg, baseballing. Goes again, into the gap, and a shocking bit of fielding gives her four. Two outfielders converge and then stop and look at each other.
Two balls to go. Six! Fahima keeps dishing them up, bowling length outside off, bowling fast spin, and King smacks it away as she did the others.
Last ball… six more! Fahima tries slowing it up, bowls even wider of off, with some loop, but King gets under that ball and gets just enough. Might have been caught on the rope on a bigger field but Fahima can only fingertip it at deep midwicket.
49th over: Australia 184-7 (Sutherland 57, King 18) Big sweep from Sutherland, and Nahida nearly takes out off stump! Just misses. A misfield next ball from Shorna at short fine gives away a second run. King gets on strike, swings big across the line, misses. Another edge hits the keeper! Bottom edge, I think that carries but into the shin pads. Not really a drop. Just three from the over though. Nahida finishes her day’s bowling on 2 for 27.
48th over: Australia 181-7 (Sutherland 54, King 18) Oh, dropped! I think it was. A horribly tough one for the keeper, King swings hard and the top edge is travelling fast and flat as it hits the keeper and bounces off, hurting her finger too. Fahima draws the error but doesn’t get the wicket. Sutherland sweeps hard at one, goes over the off side with another, but it’s so hard to strike cleanly enough to find the boundary. She gets two runs, then one.
Half century! Annabel Sutherland 50 from 69 balls
47th over: Australia 175-7 (Sutherland 50, King 16) Third umpire decision on a run out with a direct hit from Fahima at point. The cameras have a low frame rate, I reckon if we had more frames she might be out. But it’s the old-fashioned scenario where in one frame the bails are on and the bat is short, and in the next they’re off but the bat is home. King is cleared. Sutherland is on strike, and chips a run towards long off to complete a very well fashioned fifty.
Three from Nahida’s over.
46th over: Australia 172-7 (Sutherland 49, King 14) Marufa Akter returns, the opener who was tremendous off the top today. Went for 16 from six overs and removed Healy with a good piece of bowling. Pulled fiercely by Sutherland but the sweeper is there, not the case when King carves her behind point though. One run, then four. Decent comeback, bowls a cutter into the pitch that stays low and gets under King’s baseball swing, then a single to cover.
45th over: Australia 166-7 (Sutherland 48, King 9) Six overs to go. Australia could still reach 200, with a flurry. Or be all out for 170. Fahima bowls, Sutherland calls for a sharp two to point, well run. Then serious bounce! Well! That ball leaps at King, goes almost past the grille of her helmet and is taken by the keeper shoulder heigh. From a leg spinner! Everyone just laughs, even the umpire. Fun times.
44th over: Australia 162-7 (Sutherland 45, King 8) Rabeya shreds one away from King’s bat, and King grins: turns for thee, turns for me. Good over though, two singles, tightens up Sutherland on the off stump and uses the googly too to keep her dry.
43rd over: Australia 160-7 (Sutherland 44, King 7) Shorna to continue, Sutherland driving a run. King loves to play shots, she cuts lustily but there’s a deep point back. No such luck next time King swings, though, a high full toss that she clobbers over midwicket for six. That helps Australia!
42nd over: Australia 151-7 (Sutherland 42, King 0) Cripes, another misfield in the deep, this time Murshida Khatun sliding but missing the ball after Sutherland cuts Rabeya. Bangladesh have given away at least three boundaries plus the dropped catches, and with Australia past 150 now I get the feeling they’ll defend it.
41st over: Australia 146-7 (Sutherland 37, King 0) Alana King pats out two dot balls. So Australia’s leg spinner replaces Australia’s leg spinner, after that leg spinner was dismissed by a leg spinner taking a catch off a leg spinner.
WICKET! Wareham c Rabeya b Shorna 12, Australia 146-7
Sutherland is in some touch lately. Couple of Test hundreds in the last nine months, now she strikes an extra cover drive with just the right placement to find the rope. But Shorna gets reward of her own a couple of balls later, Wareham cutting but top-edging, spinning backwards off the edge, and Rabeya at slip goes to her left and holds on, tumbling behind the keeper, and giving her fellow leg spinner a wicket.
Wareham can hit bombs, but didn’t get to the stage of the innings where she was willing to try today.
40th over: Australia 141-6 (Sutherland 32, Wareham 12) Smashed by Sutherland! Fahima drags one down a long way, speared into the pitch but so short that it sits up. Sutherland pounds the pull for four, nearly carries for six.
39th over: Australia 135-6 (Sutherland 27, Wareham 11) Nearly caught! Sutherland goes back to cut the leg spin of Shorna, top edge, sliced to backward point, Nahida Akter takes it well diving forward, but just on the bounce. She shakes her head immediately to her captain behind the stumps – didn’t carry. The over goes for only one run.
38th over: Australia 134-6 (Sutherland 27, Wareham 10) Fahima Khatun, leg spinner No2 for today, returns. Rabeya was first. Loops a ball into the blockhole, after a couple of drives for one. But drops one short and Sutherland smokes it through cover. It goes just to the right of the fielder but it was hit so hard. Marufa, the opening swing bowler, fields the next one much better at point. One-handed pick-up, scrambling across.
37th over: Australia 126-6 (Sutherland 21, Wareham 8) Shorna Akter, the third leg-break bowler for Bangladesh. Angular sort of player, high arm, and after a few singles she turns a ball past Sutherland’s outside edge. Nearly caught behind, not quite.
36th over: Australia 122-6 (Sutherland 19, Wareham 6) Sultana’s last over is picked off for five singles, the Australians using the lack of pace in the pitch to get right back and nudge runs towards point or midwicket. Sultana finishes with 2 for 42 from her ten.
35th over: Australia 117-6 (Sutherland 17, Wareham 3) Nahida has Sutherland in a tangle, the ball bouncing more than expected and the cut shot rather fended away towards point. That gets Sutherland cautious, playing fuller balls off the front foot defensively, and the over is a maiden!
34th over: Australia 117-6 (Sutherland 17, Wareham 3) Bangladesh in with a chance to really suppress the score, but this Australian team bats so deep that they can be 6 down and still win games comfortably. This pair with Alana King and Kim Garth to follow could well bat through 16 overs and add a decent tally. Still work for Bangladesh to do. Four singles from the Sultana Khatun over. She has one left, and dismissed Litchfield and Perry earlier.
33rd over: Australia 113-6 (Sutherland 15, Wareham 1) That’s 2 for 21 for Fahima at the end of the over.
WICKET! Gardner st Joty b Fahima 32, Australia 112-6
The left-arm spinner does her with turn! Gardner down the pitch, not close enough to the ball though and it spins past her edge. Joty fumbles the first take, clutches the ball against her stomach, then manages to push it into her gloves and punch the bails off before Gardner gets back. Square leg umpire just pops up the finger, clear as day.
32nd over: Australia 111-5 (Gardner 32, Sutherland 14) Sultana Khatun continues, but Gardner is into her work now. Drives four straight, then clobbers another four square on the leg side. 11 from the over, suddenly Australia are looking in good shape.
31st over: Australia 100-5 (Gardner 27, Sutherland 8) Change of bowling with Fahima’s left-arm spin returning for the leg spin of Rabeya. Short though and Gardner cuts her late for four. The bowler spins one past Sutherland’s edge though, and the ball keeps low too.
30th over: Australia 94-5 (Gardner 22, Sutherland 7) Fahima carries on, picked off for four singles.
29th over: Australia 90-5 (Gardner 20, Sutherland 5) Rabeya bowls her eighth, another tidy one that costs three.
28th over: Australia 87-5 (Gardner 18, Sutherland 4) Fahima continues, Gardner hits down the ground, and she’s dropped! A really bad miss, honestly. It’s Sobhana Mostary again, who misfielded earlier. She’s at long off but only about halfway back from the circle, and the lofted shot is hit straight to her. Hits her around the stomach and she drops it while falling over backwards. That was panic fielding, very poor at this level, and a chance to get rid of the most dangerous remaining batter goes to grass.
27th over: Australia 83-5 (Gardner 16, Sutherland 2) Double leg spin continues with Rabeya – who nearly gets Gardner, but the slip has been taken out. Genuine edge while driving, gets Gardner two.
26th over: Australia 78-5 (Gardner 13, Sutherland 1) Almost two in two, as Fahima bowls the conventional leg break to the right-hander, spinning past the edge. Huge appeal but she didn’t hit it. Narrowly.
WICKET! Mooney c Joty b Fahima 25, Australia 78-5
The biggest wicket yet. Mooney is the problem solver for Australia. She was well set and starting to move. But she’s not sure what to do against this ball from Fahima. Hangs on the crease, thinking about whether to go forward or back. It’s the googly, it spins away from the left-hander, who is drawn into a push down the line. Edged to the keeper, Fahima joins the wicket-takers.
25th over: Australia 78-4 (Mooney 25, Gardner 13) Sultana Khatum, the opening spinner, comes back. Drops short twice, pulled by both players but only for one run each time. But after a couple of dots, Gardner decides to attack, stepping down to loft four over mid off! Quality shot.
24th over: Australia 72-4 (Mooney 24, Gardner 8) Rabeya loses her length for a little while, a long hop to Gardner and then a full toss, but only punished for a two and a one. Mooney reverse laps a couple. Rabeya gets things right the last two balls, making Mooney defend cautiously.
