Australia 127 for 0 (Healy 65*, Mooney 55*) beat Bangladesh 126 for 4 (Nigar Sultana 63*, Molineux 2-25) by ten wickets
Tayla Vlaeminck celebrated her return to worldwide cricket with a wicket together with her third ball, as Australia thrashed Bangladesh by ten wickets of their series-opening T20I in Dhaka.
Enjoying her first sport for Australia since January 2022, Vlaeminck beat Sobhana Mostary together with her velocity to hit the batter’s stumps. She completed with 1 for 30 as Australia saved Bangladesh to 126 for 4, earlier than chasing the goal down with out loss and with seven overs to spare.
Vlaeminck, the quickest feminine bowler in Australia, suffered two anterior cruciate ligament ruptures and a shoulder dislocation earlier than her twenty first birthday. That got here earlier than her most up-to-date prolonged break, when stress fractures in her foot and a shoulder dislocation required greater than two years of restoration.
She admitted earlier than the Bangladesh tour that she at one stage privately questioned why officers had saved religion in her. However on Sunday afternoon, she answered it herself. Vlaeminck bowled with velocity in her first match on the subcontinent, piercing by means of Mostary’s defences because the No. 3 tried to play again. Vlaeminck’s return helped push her case for choice for the World Cup later this yr, additionally in Bangladesh.
Fellow Victorian Sophie Molineux additionally did her case no hurt. After a ruptured ACL destroyed her 2023, she had Dilara Akter caught with the primary ball of the match. She additionally bowled Fahima Khatun within the closing over of the innings, ending with 2 for 25.
Bangladesh owed their closing whole of 126 to captain Nigar Sultana, who scored precisely half the runs, remaining unbeaten on 63 from 64 balls after strolling out at No. 4 within the second over.
In reply, Alyssa Healy (65 not out in 42 balls) and Beth Mooney (55 not out in 36 balls) made mild work of the chase.
Healy smashed 9 fours and a six in a dominant innings, elevating fifty in 34 balls. Mooney additionally hit 9 boundaries as she too introduced up a 34-ball fifty, with the pair taking Australia to their fourth ten-wicket win in T20 historical past.
