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Australia women's cricket team in Bangladesh in 2023–24

Australia women's cricket team in Bangladesh in 2023–24
	Bangladesh	Australia
Dates	21 March – 4 April 2024
Captains	Nigar Sultana	Alyssa Healy
One Day International series
Results	Australia won the 3-match series 3–0
Most runs	Nigar Sultana (44)	Alyssa Healy (72)
Most wickets	Sultana Khatun (4)	Ashleigh Gardner (8)
Player of the series	Ashleigh Gardner (Aus)
Twenty20 International series
Results	Australia won the 3-match series 3–0
Most runs	Nigar Sultana (96)	Alyssa Healy (110)
Most wickets	Nahida Akter (5)	Sophie Molineux (6)
Player of the series	Sophie Molineux (Aus)

The Australia women's cricket team toured Bangladesh in March and April 2024 to play three One Day International (ODI) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.^[1][2] The ODI series formed part of the 2022–2025 ICC Women's Championship.^[3] The fixtures for the tour were confirmed by Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) in February 2024.^[4] The venue for all the matches was the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket StadiuminMirpur, Dhaka.^[5]

It was the Australia women's side's first tour to Bangladesh and first ever bilateral series between the two sides.^[6][7]

Going into the series, Bangladesh had never beaten Australia in any format of women's international cricket.^[8]

Australia won the ODI series 3–0,^[9] with the hosts failing to reach a total of 100 runs in any of their batting innings.^[10][11] Bangladesh's Fariha Trisna became the first female fast bowler to take multiple T20I hat-tricks in the second T20I,^[12] but Australia once again won all three T20I matches and completed a clean sweep of the series.^[13]

Squads[edit]

Bangladesh		Australia
ODIs[14]	T20Is[15]	ODIs[16]	T20Is[17]
Nigar Sultana (c, wk) Nahida Akter (vc) Farzana Akter Marufa Akter Shorna Akter Sumaiya Akter Disha Biswas Fargana Hoque Rabeya Khan Fahima Khatun Murshida Khatun Sultana Khatun Ritu Moni Sobhana Mostary Nishita Akter Nishi	Nigar Sultana (c, wk) Nahida Akter (vc) Dilara Akter Farzana Akter Marufa Akter Shorna Akter Sumaiya Akter Rabeya Khan Fahima Khatun Murshida Khatun Shorifa Khatun Sultana Khatun Ritu Moni Sobhana Mostary Fariha Trisna	Alyssa Healy (c, wk) Tahlia McGrath (vc) Darcie Brown Ashleigh Gardner Kim Garth Grace Harris Alana King Phoebe Litchfield Sophie Molineux Beth Mooney (wk) Ellyse Perry Megan Schutt Annabel Sutherland Tayla Vlaeminck Georgia Wareham	Alyssa Healy (c, wk) Tahlia McGrath (vc) Darcie Brown Ashleigh Gardner Kim Garth Grace Harris Alana King Phoebe Litchfield Sophie Molineux Beth Mooney (wk) Ellyse Perry Megan Schutt Annabel Sutherland Tayla Vlaeminck Georgia Wareham

On 15 March 2024, Darcie Brown was ruled out of the tour due to stress injury,^[18][19] with Grace Harris was named her replacement in Australia's ODI squad.^[20][21]

ODI series[edit]

1st ODI[edit]

• Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field.
• Women's Championship points: Australia 2, Bangladesh 0.
• Nahida Akter became the leading wicket-taker for Bangladesh in women's ODIs, passing the previous record of 52 wickets set by Salma Khatun.^[22]

2nd ODI[edit]

• Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.
• Women's Championship points: Australia 2, Bangladesh 0.

3rd ODI[edit]

• Australia won the toss and elected to field.
• Sumaiya Akter (Ban) made her ODI debut.
• Alyssa Healy (Aus) became the fastest cricketer to score 3,000 runs in women's ODIs, in terms of balls faced (3059).^[23]
• Women's Championship points: Australia 2, Bangladesh 0.

T20I series[edit]

1st T20I[edit]

• Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.

2nd T20I[edit]

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
• Fariha Trisna became the first cricketer for Bangladesh to take a hat-trick against Australia and to take multiple hat-tricks in women's T20Is.^[24][25]

3rd T20I[edit]

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Series home at ESPNcricinfo