Thrilling Win for Thailand Womens by 3 wickets
October 10, 2016 | SportsGuff Team 1.9K Reads
Today its Monday 10th October, its the 4th match between Nepal Womens and Thailand Womens for the Asian Qualifiers 2016 in Hong Kong Played at Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok. Nepal Womens who lost the last match against Hong Kong Womens by 6 wickets and Thailand Womens who won their last match against China Womens by 74 runs will battle for the 2 points.
Earlier, Nepal Womens who had won the toss decides to bat first. Nepal Womens batted the whole 20 overs and scored 76/8. Nirmala Kumari Shahi the top performer in the last match with both bat and ball, had shown her consistency again in this match. Nirmala Kumari Shahi single handedly scored 36 runs of 47 balls with 4 fours was the top scorer for Nepal and made a respectable total where none of the other member touched the double figure. The openers for Nepal Womens were Jyoti Pandey and Sita Rana Magar, Jyoti scored 2 runs and Sita Rana went for golden duck. For the 2nd wicket, the 20 runs partnership between Nirmala and Jyoti came of just in 3.4 overs was the highest partnership in the Nepal Womens innings. Indu Verma scored 1, Nary Thapa scored 7 runs, Bohara Roshani scored 2 runs and Kajal Shrestha scored 6 runs had lost all their wickets by poor running between the wickets. In last match, Nepal lost 2 wickets by runouts and today 4 wickets as runouts. Karuna Bhandari went to pavilion for 3 runs and skipper Rubina and Sarita Magar scored notout 7 runs and notout 4 runs respectively.
Nattaya Boochatham, Wongpaka Leingprasert, Rattana Sangsoma and Suleeporn Laomi took 1 wicket each from the Thailand Womens. Laomi ended with the figure of 4 overs, 7 runs and 1 wicket.
Thailand came to chase the 77 runs in 20 overs, with their openers Nattakan Chantam and Sirintra Saengsakaorat. Nattakan scored a quick 13 runs of 10 balls with 2 fours before she was caught behind the stumps by Jyoti of the skipper Rubina delivery. The 1st wicket partnership came of 18 runs in just 2.5 overs for Thailand. The returns of Nirmala in bowling costs the Thailand, when she took the wicket of another opener Sirintra Saengsakaorat for 5 runs of 10 balls with a maiden over and Thailand struggles for 18/2 in 3.3 overs. Nirmala didn't allow to settle the middle order batsman and again took 2 wickets in the 6th over on the consecutive delivery and the victims were Nattaya Boochatham who scored 1 run and Naruemol Chaiwai sent to pavilion for golden duck. Skipper Sornnarin Tippoch who came for the 5th wicket scored 1 run and was runout by Nary Thapa. The 20 runs partnership in 4.0 overs for the 6th wicket between Chanida Sutthiruang and Ratanaporn Padunglerd was ended by Sarita Magar when she caught and bowled Ratanaporn Padunglerd for 7 runs of 19 balls with 1 four. Chanida Sutthiruang made notout 23 runs of 32 balls andWongpaka Leingprasert made notout 10 runs of 13 balls and both scored 25 runs in 4.5 overs for the 8th wicket made Thailand a thrilling win for the 2 points. Thailand chased down the target in 18.3 overs and won by 3 wickets.
Nirmala remained the top wicket taker i.e 3 wickets in 4 overs with 2 maidens giving away just 7 runs. Sarita Magar took 2 wicket and Rubina took 1 wicket for Nepal.
