Dot balls the massive concern as Bangladesh look to check favourites India

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Huge image: India begin as overwhelming favourites

Defending gold-medal winners India begin as overwhelming favourites towards Bangladesh within the second semi-final of the Asian Video games ladies’s competitors on Sunday. India have simply received the Asia Cup, beating Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. India’s final defeat in a T20I got here towards Australia within the T20 World Cup in June and, since then, they’ve received six video games in a row.
Spinners Shree Charani and Deepti Sharma have led the bowling in current video games, taking 74 wickets between them this 12 months, whereas seamers Nandani Sharma and Kranti Gaud have performed strong supporting roles.

India’s middle-order batting and catching have been causes for concern on the Asia Cup, however total, they’ve hardly been challenged by any Asian workforce of late.

Bangladesh will play their first match on the Asian Video games after their quarter-final towards China was washed out with no ball bowled. They’ve been a robust bowling facet however with the bat, they’ve typically been responsible of taking part in too many dot balls (they of their final sport, the Asia Cup semi-final towards India, they performed out 64 dots and fell 40 quick) and leaving runs behind. The likes of Sobhana Mostary, Nigar Sultana and Shorna Akter can rating essential runs and shortly, however collectively, their batting unit should step up for them to be aggressive.

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In the latest assembly within the Asia Cup semi-final, India cruised to a a simple win. Within the T20 World Cup earlier this 12 months, India chased down Bangladesh’s 137 in 16.5 overs.

Bangladesh’s final win towards India got here in 2023.

Within the highlight: Marufa Akter and Shafali Verma

Bangladesh will look to Marufa Akter to offer the problem with the brand new ball. The main wicket-taker for Bangladesh this 12 months with 24 strikes, Marufa has threatened batters along with her swing. She has picked up at the very least a wicket in every of her final six T20I outings.
Shafali Verma entered the Asian Video games on the again of a profitable Asia Cup the place she scored 234 runs, together with fifties within the semi-final and closing. Towards Bangladesh, she has made 4 half-centuries in T20Is. Within the opener towards Japan, she picked up two wickets and smashed an unbeaten 40 off 15.

Bangladesh are more likely to subject the identical workforce that performed within the Asia Cup.

Bangladesh (possible) : 1 Dilara Akter, 2 Juairiya Ferdous, 3 Sobhana Mostary, 4 Nigar Sultana (capt, wk), 5 Sharmin Akter, 6 Shorna Akter, 7 Fahima Khatun, 8 Nahida Akter, 9 Rabeya Khan, 10 Sultana Khatun, 11 Marufa Akter

The notable change in India’s XI towards Japan was the return of offspinner Shreyanka Patil, who was out for 3 months after injuring her ankle. G Kamalini is anticipated to play at No. 3 after opening the innings towards Japan.

India (possible): India: 1 Smriti Mandhana, 2 Shafali Verma, 3 G Kamalini, 4 Harmanpreet Kaur (capt), 5 Richa Ghosh (wk), 6 Bharti Fulmali, 7 Deepti Sharma, 8 Shreyanka Patil, 9 Kranti Gaud, 10 N Shree Charani, 11 Nandani Sharma

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