Australia Women vs Bangladesh Women, ICC Womens T20 World Cup 2020, Today Match Prediction 27 Feb 2020

ausw vs banw Match Prediction & Analysis

ICC Women`s World Cup started with a shock-defeat of Hosts Australia against a strong Indian team in the tournament opener. Australia has a phenomenal record in the T20Is for a long time and they won their second match against Sri Lanka by 5 wickets get back to winning ways with a win in this match.

Bangladesh too suffered a similar by losing to the Indian team in their first World Cup match. Bangladesh will look to pull off a heist by downing the mighty Australian team and this victory could well serve as a boost for them going ahead in the World cup.

TEAMS PREVIEW

Australia Women Preview

Australia Women has 2 points from two matches with a win and a loss so far. Rachael Haynes (60 runs) and Meg Lanning (41runs) put on a 95-run partnership to register their victory after tethering at 10/3 early on.

Alyssa Healy (51 runs) and Ashleign Gardener (34 runs) came up crucial knocks in the first match but failed to seal the chase. Molly Strano and Nikola Carey took 2 wickets each to topple Sri Lanka for 122 runs. Jess Jonassen, Ellyse Perry, and Megan Schutt have contributed with crucial wickets with the ball. They have a host of various different options in the bowling department.

Key Players:

Rachael Haynes – Haynes came in at 10/3 at set the tone for chase with her knock of 60 runs in 47 balls. She smashed 4 boundaries and 2 sixes on her way to this match winning knock.

Jess Jonassen – Jess Jonassen has become one of the attacking bowlers for the Australia team and has figures of 1/23 & 2/24 in the two matches. We expect her continue her good run of form in this match too.

Australia Women Predicted Playing XI:

Alyssa Healy (wk), Beth Mooney, Ashleigh Gardner, Meg Lanning (c), Ellyse Perry, Rachael Haynes, Nicola Carey, Jess Jonassen, Delissa Kimmince, Molly Strano, Megan Schutt

Australia Women Actual Playing XI:

Meg Lanning, Beth Mooney, Megan Schutt, Jess Jonassen, Alyssa Healy, Ellyse Perry, Nicola Carey, Georgia Wareham, Annabel Sutherland, Ashleigh Gardner, Rachael Haynes

Bangladesh Women Preview

Bangladesh Women put a valiant fight in the chase against India but was not enough to cross the line. Murshida Khutan (30 runs) and Nigar Sultana (34 runs) batted well for their cameos but failed to carry on to seal the match.

Four of their middle-order players crossed 10 runs but kept losing wickets at regular intervals to end up with 124/8. Salma Khatun and Panna Ghosh came up with 2 wickets each and their fielders contributed with 2 crucial run-outs. Jahanara Alam and Nahida Akter were taken fo lot runs and ended with giving away runs at 8 RPO in the match.

Key Players:

Nigar Sultana – Nigar Sultana scored 35 runs off 26 runs and led the chase in the middle overs. She would be dejected to be dismissed at the wrong time and causing Bangladesh to botch the chase. Panna Ghosh – Panna Ghosh took the vital wickets to Shefali Verma and Harmanpret Kaur to put on brakes in the Indian batting innings. Panna Ghosh will look to co0ntinue her good form and momentum in this match too.

Bangladesh Women Predicted Playing XI:

Murshida Khatun, Shamima Sultana, Sanjida Islam, Nigar Sultana (wk), Fargana Hoque, Rumana Ahmed, Salma Khatun (c), Fahima Khatun, Jahanara Alam, Panna Ghosh, Nahida Akter

Bangladesh Women Actual Playing XI:

Nahida Akter, Jahanara Alam, Fargana Hoque, Nigar Sultana, Murshida Khatun, Khadija Tul Kubra, Fahima Khatun, Rumana Ahmed, Sanjida Islam, Shamima Sultana, Salma Khatun

PITCH AND WEATHER CONDITIONS

Weather Conditions

Canberra is one of the batting friendly pitches and the last match played here both teams scored over 150 runs. We can expect average scores in range of 140-160 runs in this match.

Venue Details

The weather looks dark and cloudy with a 30% chance of rain. But, we don’t expect rain to play spoilsport in this match.

Toss: To Bowl

All teams barring India have won batting second this World Cup and we expect the captains to chase down the total in this match too.