AUS v BAN talking points, Women’s World Cup 2025: Healy-Litchfield show, King’s spin prowess papers over poor fielding

It takes a batting display of some calibre to blunt an otherwise spirited Bangladesh bowling attack, but that’s what Australia did and with some comfort in its Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 clash at ACA-VDCA Stadium in Vizag on Thursday. ALSO READ | Australia seals semifinal sport with 10-wicket demolition job against Bangladesh Here are…

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From facing Shabnim Ismail to playing five Women’s World Cups: Sobhana Mostary’s slow rise up Bangladesh’s batting order

On May 14, 2018, a 16-year-old Sobhana Mostary became Bangladesh’s fourth-youngest debutant in women’s ODIs. It was a trial by pace as she faced South Africa’s Marizanne Kapp and Shabnim Ismail. The raw pace of the latter is still fresh in the batter’s mind. “I remember facing Shabnim Ismail in my first few deliveries on…

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