SYLHET, Bangladesh
Thailand women on Thursday morning defeated Pakistan women in Asia Cup fixture at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium (SICS) by 4 wickets.
Natthakan Chantham lead Thailand’s tricky chase by scoring composed 61 (51), as the Thai women chased a total of 117 runs with only one ball to spare.
Earlier, no other batswoman could bring stability to Pakistan innings except Sidra Ameen, who managed to reach 56 (64). Ordinary contributions from other batters and some marvelous bowling by Sornnarin Tippoch (2-20) restricted Pakistan to only 116-5 from their twenty overs’ quota.
Reply was a quite usual one, as wickets kept tumbling at regular intervals, but runs kept coming too. Besides Chantham, Naruemol Chaiwai was leading run scorer with good 17 (23).
“Pakistan are a strong side. We want to beat every team but at the moment we just enjoyed our fielding and batting. I want my team to have fun and the win comes automatically,” Thai captain Chaiwai said at the post match presentation.
“In the last two games, we didn’t bowl correct length and line. Today they did it pretty well,” she added.
“Quite disappointed the way we batted. The batters haven’t shown the intent. (Batting let your side down?) Of course, set batters were there and they weren’t able to put a good score,” Said Pakistan skipper Bisma Maroof. “130 plus would be a good total. They didn’t show intent, that was disappointing for me as a captain. We have bowled Kainat in the middle, but she hasn’t bowled according to plans so we didn’t use her today,” she added.
