The two teams, Bangladesh Women vs Scotland Women have risen to the challenge, and presently considered powerful teams in women’s cricket, thus promoting the growth of the game across the world. Even if they are not yet as entrenched as some of the recognised giants of cricket, their games exhibition skill, passion and prove that Cricket, particularly for women is fast becoming a global phenomenon.
In this article, the authors give information regarding recent matches between the Bangladesh Women vs Scotland Women team with emphasis on their performances, advantages of the series & how the series affects all the enthusiastic cricketers.
Bangladesh Women’s Cricket Team: Rising Talent from South Asia
The Bangladesh women cricket team has emerged as one of the most improved women’s team in the world in recent times in the internatio Famously known for their never say die attitude the Tigers have time and again shown progress and improvement in the world cup tournaments. Kohli’s team received breakthrough in writing the history when the team triumphed at the final of the Asia Cup 2018 beating India.
Bangladeshi Women led by some experienced players like Salma Khatun, Rumana Ahmed, and Nigar Sultana are fully prepared with young talents in the team. They are talented for all departments and mostly spin bowlers which create a very powerful team in sub continental environment. The team has gradually been appreciated in the ODI and T20I hence their players have demonstrated high levels of skill and endeavor.
Scotland Women’s Cricket Team: Building a Strong Foundation
On the other hand, the Striker Scotland Women’s Cricket Team is gradually emerging as a competitive Team in European cricket. While the team lacks as much depth and development as the teams of other countries do, Scotland actively started developing itself in women’s cricket. Cricket world cup qualifiers and other tournaments are evidence of the country’s intentions of graduating to the elite group of cricket playing nations.
Scotland’s women team has been preparing a squad to face the sides in the higher tier of the world rankings with the help of Kathryn Bryce who proved her abilities at the international level. Scotland is keenly dependent on medium pacer and spin bowling and therefore does not boast of big killing punches like some other teams might have, however the Scots are hard working and team spirited often giving a tough fight.
Bangladesh Women Vs Scotland Women : Major Interaction
Bangladeshi Tigerines and Scottish Pipes have played only a few times but those events were very important in some qualification series. This time the teams met in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019 when both teams wanted a ticket to the international event.
When both the teams faced each other in July 2019 in the Qualifier match Bangladesh Women had prevailed through better bowling performance and stable batting line up. The Bangladeshi spinners especially Nahida Akter and Salma khatun bowled tightly and put check on the Scottish batting. As for the chasing, Bangladesh did that quite easily, they looked more composed and confident when it came to handling pressure.
I have summarized the specificities of teams as follows Strengths of the Teams Weaknesses of the Teams
Bangladesh Women
- Strengths: Probably, Bangladesh’s biggest advantage is their slow bowlers, especially when it comes to playing in slow and spinning wickets. Two of the main bowlers for the team are Salma Khatun and Nahida Akter. Also on the head to head record Bangladesh has some winning records against higher ranked teams like India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka which gives them experience of how to handle pressure conditions.
- Weaknesses: The main weakness we have seen in Bangladesh is fluctuating bat performance primarily on pitches outside Asia and particularly those that offer bounce. Their bowlers, hence, can reign the situation whereas their batters often fail to deliver explosive big-hitting that is expected in the limited-over format.
Scotland Women
- Strengths: Scotlands’ strength is in discipline and teamwork. They mostly depend on restriction of bowling line and length and strong fielding in order to put pressure. Kathryn Bryce and Sarah Bryce are two brilliant players and they are also Bowler and Batsmen performers.
- Weaknesses: Scotland’s worst enemy is that they perform poorly against the international teams and they rarely get to play against the top tier teams. This means that they sometimes fail to deliver L when the time comes in important games. Also sometimes their batting line up could be weak, they were seen during this series especially against good bowling such as that of Bangladesh.
Thus, interactions of the kind are becoming increasingly significant.
Cricket fans get to watch teams such as Bangladesh Women vs Scotland Women –these match are very important for the growth for women cricket across the world. They offer both teams exposure to the west and thus would complement the growth of women’s cricket in each team’s nation. The way it is beneficial for Bangladesh is that teams such as Scotland are used as preparation towards the higher ranked countries while for teams such as Scotland it is an opportunity to showcase talent against the big boys.
Conclusion
As in the Bangladesh Women vs Scotland Women the level of competition and intensity inherent in women cricket are increasingly being displayed. Bangladesh of course is a more well rounded team who have been playing internationals for a quite longer time whereas, Scotland is one of the teams on the rise, trying their best to cement themselves as a powerhouse on the global front.
These matches will prove extremely important with the increase in interest in women’s cricket across the world. Individually, both of these teams possess certain characteristics, which can be developed over the time to really offer and deliver competitive cricket, which surely, most cricket lovers would love to watch.