Nahida Akhter's slightly overhanging delivery tries to play out of the crease and is beaten by Ashley Gardner on the turn. Nigar Sultana broke the stumps with the ball in his gloves in the second attempt. Nahida made a name for himself with this wicket. Nahida topped Salma Khatun with 2 wickets for 27 runs in the first match of the ODI series against Australia on Thursday. The 24-year-old left-arm spinner now has the most wickets for Bangladesh in women's ODIs.
Nahida went over Salma
Nahida Akhter's slightly overhanging delivery tries to play out of the crease and is beaten by Ashley Gardner on the turn. Nigar Sultana broke the stumps with the ball in his gloves in the second attempt. Nahida made a name for himself with this wicket. Nahida topped Salma Khatun with 2 wickets for 27 runs in the first match of the ODI series against Australia on Thursday. The 24-year-old left-arm spinner now has the most wickets for Bangladesh in women's ODIs.
Nahida now has 53 wickets in 39 innings of 41 matches. Salma, who last played one day in 2022, was on top for so long with 51 wickets in 44 innings.
Nahida was already on top of Bangladesh with 86 wickets in T20. In that list last year she left behind Salma (84). On Thursday, Nahida started playing 1 wicket behind Salma. The current vice-captain of the national team sat next to the former captain after Tahlia McGrath was lbw in the 19th over.
Meanwhile, in the duo of Sutherland and King, Fahima Khatun is the most stormy. King hit 4 sixes and 1 four in the last over. In all, 29 runs come from the over. This is the record for the most runs scored in an over in the history of women's ODIs. In 2018 against India, South African pacer Ayabanga Khaka scored 28 runs in the over.
In total, Fahima spent 67 runs in 9 overs. This is the highest run cost record for Bangladesh in ODIs. Earlier, Rumana Ahmed, Jahanara Alam and Nahida Akhtar scored 62 runs.
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