Pakistan lost to Bangladesh. (Photo- GETTY)
BAN Women vs PAK Women, ICC Women’s T20 World Cup: A huge upset has been seen in the Women’s T20 World Cup 2026. Bangladesh women’s cricket team created history by defeating Pakistan in the 15th match of the tournament. Bangladesh’s bowlers performed miraculously on the field and achieved a seemingly impossible victory. With this defeat, Pakistan’s troubles in the tournament have increased immensely and the team has scored a hat-trick of defeats. At the same time, this is Bangladesh’s first victory against Pakistan in the Women’s T20 World Cup.
Bangladesh’s batting was nothing special
In this match, Bangladesh won the toss and chose to bat first, but Bangladesh team could only score 123 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. During this, captain Nigar Sultana played an important inning of 36 runs. At the same time, Shorna Akhtar batted aggressively in the last overs and scored unbeaten 39 runs on 22 balls. Shobhana Mostari also contributed 22 runs in taking the team to a respectable score.
On the other hand, captain Fatima Sana took maximum 2 wickets for Pakistan. Apart from them, Sadia Iqbal, Tasmiya Rubab, Nashra Sandhu and Tuba Hasan achieved 1 success each. After the first innings, it was considered an easy target for Pakistan. But Bangladesh’s bowlers made a brilliant comeback for the team and led it to a historic victory.
Disintegrated Pakistan’s batting
Pakistan team had a good start while chasing the target. Muniba Ali and Gul Feroza made a good partnership in the powerplay, due to which Pakistan team managed to score 64 runs at the loss of 2 wickets in the first 10 overs. In such a situation, Pakistan had to score only 60 runs in the last 60 balls. That means Pakistan needed only run a ball as per the run rate. Despite this his team completely collapsed.
Pakistan’s innings was reduced to just 100 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. During this, Bangladesh bowlers bowled brilliantly and maintained pressure on Pakistani batsmen from the middle overs till the end. Amazing bowling was seen from Nahida Akhtar and Sanjida Akhtar Meghla. Both bowlers took 3-3 wickets. At the same time, Rabeya Khan and Ritu Moni played an important role in the team’s victory by taking 1-1 wicket.
Pakistan is in bad shape in the points table
Pakistan is struggling with continuous defeats in Group-1. He has played 3 matches so far and has faced defeat in all. At the same time, Bangladesh team has reached third place with 2 wins in 3 matches. Now they have to face big teams like India and South Africa. At the same time, Pakistan will now face the teams of Australia and Netherlands.
