2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 - West Indies, November 9-24

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2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 - West Indies, November 9-24

The 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 will be hosted in the West Indies between November 9 through 24 of this year. It will be the sixth edition of the ICC Women's World Twenty20, and the second hosted by the West Indies (after the 2010 edition).

ICC confirmed that this would be the first T20 tournament that uses the Umpire Decision Review System, with one review per side. All matches will be considered as T20I.

A total of 10 teams will take part in the event - 8 automatic qualified teams and 2 teams from the qualifier tournament (the champion and the runner-up) that was held in July 2018 in the Netherlands.

Teams:
1. Australia
2. England
3. India
4. New Zealand
5. Pakistan
6. South Africa
7. Sri Lanka
8. West Indies (host)

9. Bangladesh 1st in Qualifier tournament
10. Ireland 2nd in Qualifier tournament


Group A

England
South Africa
Sri Lanka
West Indies
Bangladesh


Group B

Australia
India
New Zealand
Pakistan
Ireland


The Venues

a. Guyana National Stadium, Providence, Guyana (Home of BC's own aklemalp- Paramanad Singh!)
b. Darren Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet, Saint Lucia
c. Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua


Dearest aklemalp bhai, we want full report on the ground and want to see photos of the streets, markets, common street food, people, life, parks, flora and faunas, plants and local animals, the city and the Guyana National Stadium please. We are counting on you, brother!



All reference taken from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_I...World_Twenty20

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Fixtures:
Group A


9 November 2018 - 20:00 (D/N)
West Indies vs Bangladesh
Guyana National Stadium, Providence


10 November 2018 - 16:00 (D/N)
England vs Sri Lanka
Darren Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet


12 November 2018 - 16:00 (D/N)
England vs Bangladesh
Darren Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet


12 November 2018 - 20:00 (D/N)
Sri Lanka vs South Africa
Darren Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet


14 November 2018 - 16:00 (D/N)
Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh
Darren Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet


14 November 2018 - 20:00 (D/N)
West Indies vs South Africa
Darren Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet


16 November 2018 - 16:00 (D/N)
England vs South Africa
Darren Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet


16 November 2018 - 20:00 (D/N)
West Indies vs Sri Lanka
Darren Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet


18 November 2018 - 16:00 (D/N)
West Indies vs England
Darren Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet


18 November 2018 - 20:00 (D/N)
South Africa vs Bangladesh
Darren Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet

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Fixtures:
Group B


9 November 2018 - 11:00
New Zealand vs India
Guyana National Stadium, Providence


9 November 2018 - 16:00 (D/N)
Australia vs Pakistan
Guyana National Stadium, Providence


11 November 2018 - 11:00
India vs Pakistan
Guyana National Stadium, Providence


11 November 2018 - 16:00 (D/N)
Australia vs Ireland
Guyana National Stadium, Providence


13 November 2018 - 16:00 (D/N)
Pakistan vs Ireland
Guyana National Stadium, Providence


13 November 2018 - 20:00 (D/N)
Australia vs New Zealand
Guyana National Stadium, Providence


15 November 2018 - 11:00
India vs Ireland
Guyana National Stadium, Providence


15 November 2018 - 16:00 (D/N)
New Zealand vs Pakistan
Guyana National Stadium, Providence


17 November 2018 - 11:00
India vs Australia
Guyana National Stadium, Providence


17 November 2018 - 16:00 (D/N)
New Zealand vs Ireland
Guyana National Stadium, Providence

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Finals

Semi Final 1
22 November 2018 - 16:00 (D/N)
Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound

Semi Final 2
22 November 2018 - 20:00 (D/N)
Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound


Final
24 November 2018 - 20:00 (D/N)
Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound

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Bangladesh, Ireland secure Women's World T20 berths
ESPNcricinfo staff

Bangladesh women wheel away after winning the Asia Cup ACC


Billed favourites to book the final two spots for the forthcoming Women's World T20 in the Caribbean, Bangladesh and Ireland lived up to the tag in the eight-team qualifying tournament with convincing semi-final wins over Scotland and Papua New Guinea. A victory in the final on Saturday will be as much a contest for bragging rights as it will to validate or reverse the result of the 2015 edition, where Bangladesh finished second behind Ireland.

Either Bangladesh or Ireland will face West Indies (in Group A) or Australia (in Group B) in the World T20 opener on November 9 and 11 respectively, pending the result in the final.

Ranked ninth and tenth on the ICC multi-format women's team rankings, Bangladesh finished atop Group A with a 49-run victory at the VRA Ground in Amstelveen hours within Ireland topped Group B by defeating PNG by 27 runs at the venue.


Ireland Women players celebrate a wicket Getty Images/ICC


Bangladesh's entry into the World T20 comes on the back of a maiden Asia-Cup title-winning campaign in June, where they stunned heavyweights India twice. Ireland, meanwhile, recovered from big-margin, limited-overs series defeats against New Zealand and a 2-1 T20I series defeat against Bangladesh - both at home - less two weeks ago.

An unbeaten, three-match-winning streak heading into the semi-final meant the crucial tie against Scotland was only for Ireland's to lose. Having being put in at the toss by PNG, a wicket off the second ball of the game inspired hopes of a potential upset, but only momentarily. A top-score of 36 from the in-form Gaby Lewis anchored a 47-run second-wicket stand for Ireland, before Lucy O'Reilly's career-best 3 for 13 rolled over PNG for 86 in 19.2 overs.

For Bangladesh, their in-form opening pair of Shamima Sultana and Ayasha Rahman - who had laid the platform for the victors in the low-scoring Asia Cup final - added 51 in 6.5 overs, before middle-order batsman Nigar Sultana's 31 lifted them to 125 for 6.

Scotland wobbled early in the chase, losing opener Rachael Scholes to Bangladesh captain Salma Khatun in the fourth over. But the Bryce sisters - Sarah and captain Kathryn - kept Scotland's hopes alive, with Sarah collecting a dogged 31 that took Scotland past 50 - in the 13th over.

It was, however, a timely strike from legspinner Fahima Khatun, who, on Tuesday became the first Bangladesh bowler - male or female to take a T20I hat-trick, that sent back Sarah and triggered a collapse. Scotland lost 7 for 14 over the following three overs, and the four combined wickets from Nahida Akter and vice-captain Rumana Ahmed strangled them to 76 for 7 snuffed out their hopes of qualification.

Please read full original article at cricinfo.com
http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/...rld-t20-berths

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"We're really excited for the West Indies!" - BD cricketer Jahanara Alam on the upcoming Women's T20 World Cup.
Alam is a sharp shooter, and she explains very clearly that her and her team's intention to put up a better show/performance in the WC at the Caribbean in a few months.

Please watch the video clip below to see BD pacers Jahanara Alam and Panna Ghosh talk about their performance in their recent tours and the future:
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses...27060090806272

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In the last 14 (fourteen) T20I matches that BD women's team played (and all of those matches happened to be away matches) -
BD won 12 and lost 2.
*Out of the 12 wins, 6 are against teams higher ranked than them.
**2 loss came from teams higher ranked than them.

* and ** According to the most current ICC full member women's national teams ranking, BD women is number 9 and IRE women is number 10. I did NOT go by that ranking, and I considered IRE women higher than BD. because until this very recent streak of wins, IRE was above BD. And these wins against IRE (3) and India (2), Pak (1) put BD above IRE.

Also note that IRE women has test status, BD women do not.

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Promo in Guyana by Windies cricket...

Miraz holding the trophy: