The
Australia women's cricket team
The Australian women's national cricket team (formerly also known as the Southern Stars) represent Australia in international women's cricket. Currently captained by Meg Lanning and coached by Shelley Nitschke, they are the top team in all worl ...
toured Bangladesh in March and April 2024 to play three
One Day International
A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 9 hours. The Cricket World C ...
(ODI) and three
Twenty20 International
A Twenty20 International (T20I) is a form of cricket, played between two of the international members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), in which each team faces a maximum of twenty overs. The matches have top-class status and are the ...
(T20I) matches. The ODI series formed part of the
2022–2025 ICC Women's Championship. The fixtures for the tour were confirmed by
Bangladesh Cricket Board
The Bangladesh Cricket board ( bn, বাংলাদেশ ক্রিকেট বোর্ড; abbreviated as BCB) is the governing body of cricket in Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Cricket Board first became an associate member of the Inter ...
(BCB) in February 2024. The venue for all the matches was the
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium
The Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium (SBNCS; bn, শের-ই-বাংলা জাতীয় ক্রিকেট স্টেডিয়াম), also called Mirpur Stadium, is an International cricket ground in Mirpur, a few kilo ...
in
Mirpur,
Dhaka
Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city ...
.
It was the Australia women's side's first tour to Bangladesh and first ever bilateral series between the two sides.
Going into the series, Bangladesh had never beaten Australia in any format of women's international cricket.
Australia won the ODI series 3–0, with the hosts failing to reach a total of 100 runs in any of their batting innings. Bangladesh's
Fariha Trisna
Fariha Islam Trisna ( bn, ফারিহা ইসলাম তৃষ্ণা; born 13 September 2002) is a Bangladeshi cricketer who plays for the Bangladesh women's national cricket team as a left-arm medium bowler. In November 2021, she was ...
became the first female
fast bowler to take multiple
T20I hat-tricks in the second T20I, but Australia once again won all three T20I matches and completed a
clean sweep of the series.
Squads
On 15 March 2024,
Darcie Brown
Darcie Rose Brown (born 7 March 2003) is an Australian cricketer who plays as a pace bowler for the South Australian Scorpions in the Women's National Cricket League, and for the Adelaide Strikers in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL). She made ...
was ruled out of the tour due to stress injury, with
Grace Harris
Grace Margaret Harris (born 18 September 1993) is an Australian cricketer who made her international debut for the Australia women's cricket team in August 2015. An all-rounder, she is a right-handed batter and right-arm off break bowler. Sh ...
was named her replacement in Australia's ODI squad.
ODI series
1st ODI
2nd ODI
3rd ODI
T20I series
1st T20I
2nd T20I
3rd T20I
References
External links
Series home at ESPNcricinfo
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International cricket competitions in 2023–24
Women's international cricket tours of Bangladesh
Australia women's national cricket team tours
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2024 in Australian cricket
2022–25 ICC Women's Championship
2023–24