Bangladesh finally broke the cycle of batting failure in the Women's World Cup. Standing on the solid foundation laid by the top order batters against South Africa, Swarna Akhter created a storm. The Tigresses got a collection of over 200 with her stormy fifty.
Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat first in Visakhapatnam of India and scored 232 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs on Monday. This is the highest runs record for Bangladesh in the Women's World Cup. Swarna scored an unbeaten fifty for the team, scoring 51 off just 35 balls.
Sharmin Akhter scored 50 off 77 balls.
Nonkululeko Mlaba took 2 wickets for 42 for South Africa.
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