An impressive bowling display from Shorna Akter, along with Marufa Akter and Nahida Akter, has helped Bangladesh women to bowl out Pakistan women for a low total during the Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 clash.
Shorna returned with an impressive figure of 3.3-5-3-1.40 and bowled three maiden overs, helping the side to restrict Pakistan women to 129 runs at Colombo.
Batting first, Pakistan’s innings did not have a great start as their batting lineup crumbled.
Muneeba Ali and Omaima Sohail opened the innings for Pakistan, while Marufa Akter opened the bowling attack. Akter bagged the wickets of Omaima Sohai and Sidra Amin in back to back deliveries for a golden duck.
Muneeba Ali and Rameen Shamim joined hands to score 41 runs in the powerplay. However, Nahida Akter went on to bag the duo’s wicket for 17 and 23 runs respectively.
With Nishitha Akter bagging the wicket of Aliya Riaz for 13 runs, Pakistan lost 6 wickets for scoring 91 runs.
Soon after Aliya Riaz walked out, Fatima Sana lost her wicket fo Fahima Khatun for 22 runs on a lbw. Following the dismissal Natalia Perviaz went back for 9 runs after being caught by Nigar Sultana in Shorna Akter’s delivery.
Shorna Akter went on for her second wicket dismissing Nashra Sandhu for 1 runs leaving Pakistan with their last wicket for 115 runs. She bagged the wicket of Sadia Iqbal in the 39th over as Bangladesh Women Bowled out Pakistan Women for 129 runs at Colombo.
Pakistan bundled out for 129 with only Rameen Shamim (23) and Fatima Sana (22) resisting! 🏏
Shorna Akter (3/3), Nahida Akter, & Marufa Akter (2 each) starred with the ball! 👏#CricketTwitter #CWC25 #BANvPAK pic.twitter.com/4oEuZqoFa5
— Female Cricket (@imfemalecricket) October 2, 2025
Speaking at the toss, Pakistan captain Fatima Sana said, “We will bat first. The pitch looks good for batting, hopefully we will play good cricket. Every team is tough to beat in World Cup. If we play good cricket we can beat any time. Three new faces for us.”
Meanwhile, Nigar Sultana said, “It’s ok but we wanted to bat as well. It was pretty good to bat on in the warm-up games as well. We have been practicing very hard, fitness, skill-wise as well.”
Bangladesh Playing 11: Fargana Hoque, Rubya Haider, Sharmin Akhter, Nigar Sultana(w/c), Sobhana Mostary, Shorna Akter, Fahima Khatun, Nahida Akter, Rabeya Khan, Marufa Akter, Nishita Akter Nishi
Pakistan Playing 11: Muneeba Ali, Omaima Sohail, Sidra Amin, Aliya Riaz, Sidra Nawaz(w), Natalia Pervaiz, Fatima Sana(c), Rameen Shamim, Nashra Sandhu, Diana Baig, Sadia Iqbal
