‘It’s positively a part of historical past’ – Nigar Sultana hails ‘enormous achievement’ by Bangladesh
Bangladesh captain Nigar Sultana has hailed her workforce after they secured their first win over India in ODI cricket. After scoring 152 in a rain-hit sport, Bangladesh rolled India over for 113 in Mirpur.
Bangladesh and India face one another extra often in T20I cricket, however since their first ODI in opposition to India in 2013, that they had lost all five ODIs in opposition to them till Sunday. This was additionally Bangladesh’s first ODI win since they beat Pakistan within the Women’s World Cup in March 2022.
“We are very happy winning an ODI after a long time,” Nigar stated. “It is a huge achievement for the team. It will help us play much better in the future. We have defeated India after a long time. Plus, it happened in Mirpur. It is definitely part of history. We want to create a little more history.”
Marufa Akter had arrange the victory by eradicating each Smriti Mandhana and Priya Puniya within the powerplay. Marufa went onto dismiss Amanjot Kaur and Sneh Rana as properly.
“We wanted to take early wickets,” Nigar stated. “They are dependent on their batting department. The coach told us that we should look for wickets in the Powerplay. It will keep them under pressure. Smriti [Mandhana] and Harmanpreet [Kaur] are their key batters. When we got them out, the rest of their batters couldn’t quite do the job. But I think we could have bowled better to bowl them out for a cheaper score.
“Marufa bowls properly with the brand new ball and later within the center overs. She does not take into consideration her bowling an excessive amount of. She needs to bowl to the workforce’s requirement. She backs her personal energy. It helps us. Batters have struggled in opposition to her pure inswing with the brand new ball.”
Nigar said that she brought Marufa back into the attack in the 29th over when coach Hashan Tillakaratne sent her a message for the bowling change. Deepti Sharma and Amanjot Kaur had added 30 runs for the sixth wicket after the visitors were reduced to 61 for 5. Marufa responded by dismissing both Amanjot and No. 8 Rana off successive deliveries.
Tillakaratne noted that the spinners couldn’t break the partnership, so he wanted to shake things up by bringing back Marufa. “She is among the prime bowlers on this planet proper now,” he said. “Also the batters have been dealing with the spinners very properly, so we need to break the momentum. That’s one of many causes we wished to bowl Marufa.”
Tillakaratne, however, wasn’t pleased with Bangladesh’s total and called for a better performance from his batting line-up. “We have been wanting at the least a 200-plus rating as a result of the wicket was retaining low,” he said. “There’s no demons on the wicket. The wicket performed rather well. Unfortunately, our batters faltered and have been brief by 50-60 runs.
“I think there are a few loose ends that we need to tighten up before the second one. So, we’ll have a discussion tomorrow, and we’ll come back strongly for the second and third one.”
Nigar, in the meantime, urged her workforce to carry off any large celebrations and concentrate on reaching extra on this sequence. “The girls were quite excited but I told them our job isn’t done yet,” she stated. “Doing well raises our responsibilities. There are more expectations on us now.
“We know that if we proceed to play higher cricket, we’ll take one other step in the direction of a much bigger achievement. So I’ve saved them calmed down from a giant celebration.”