SLW vs BANW 18th Match Prediction

SLW vs BANW Team Previews

Sri Lanka Women

The Sri Lankan team management will be expecting their team members can keep their winning momentum going in this game. As far as the batting department is concerned, the team will depend on the likes of O Ranasinghe, Harshitha Madavi, Nilakshi de Silva, and Chamari Atapattu to score most of the runs for Sri Lanka women. In the earlier match for Sri Lanka, Oshadi Ranasinghe played a crucial inning at the back end of the game. She scored a vital 23 from 18 balls with a couple of boundaries. 

Nilakshi de Silva contributed 21 runs from 23 balls while the skipper Chamari Atapattu scored 21 runs from 34 balls. As far as the bowling department of the Sri Lankan women's cricket team is concerned, the onus is in the hands of Malsha Shehani, Sugandhika Kumari, Oshadi Ranasinghe, Inoka Ranaweera to provide the breakthroughs for the team. In the game for Sri Lanka, their fast-medium bowler Malsha Shehani was the best bowler of the side. She finished with incredible figures of 4 for 2 from just 1.5 overs. Apart from her Inoka Ranaweera, Sugandika Kumari and Shehani bowled pretty well to pick up 2 wickets each.

Chamari Athapaththtu is not only the Sri Lankan skipper but, she is also one of their top batters. She has scored 208 runs in her last 10 games with an average of 23.11. Although this is not a great performance by any standards her contribution to the batting effort of the side is crucial. Harshitha Samarawickran has scored 185 runs in her last 9 matches for Sri Lanka women. She has scored these runs at an average of 20.56 and a strike rate of 96.85. The top bowler for Sri Lanka women is Inoka Ranaweera who has picked up 17 wickets from her 10 games.

Bangladesh Women

As far as the Bangladesh batting department is concerned, the team will rely on batters such as Murshida Khatun, Nigar Sultana, Fargana Hoque, and Shamima Sultana for doing most of the run-getting for Bangladesh. In their last game, Nigar Sultana was the star performer for Bangladesh with the bat. She finished being the top run-getter for the Bangla women with a score of 36 runs from 29 balls. She hit five boundaries in her innings. Fargana Hoque also hit 30 runs from 40 balls with 3 fours in the innings. Murshida Khatun also contributed 21 runs from 25 balls for Bangladesh.

As far as the Bangla bowling attack is concerned the team will rely on the likes of Sanjida Akter, Nahida Akter, Salma Khatun, and Rumana Ahmed to provide timely breakthroughs to the Bangladesh bowling attack. As far as their recent performance is concerned, Bangladesh has won 3 out of their last five games. They lost the other two games they played. Sri Lanka women's team has a similar record to Bangladesh in terms of their recent performance. Nigar Sultana has done an exceptional job with the bat for Bangladesh by scoring 316 runs from 10 matches at an average of 39.50 and a strike rate of 106.75.

Another batter that has done a good job for Bangladesh women is Murshida Khatun. In the last 8 games she has played for Bangladesh she has put together 253 runs with an excellent average of 36.14 and a strike rate of 97.68. Salma Khatun has been the top bowler for Bangladesh with 13 wickets from her last 10 games. She has also bowled pretty economically with an economy rate of 4.48 and a strike rate of 17.00 in her effort. Rumana Ahmed has also done a fair job for the Bangladesh bowling attack by picking up 12 wickets from her last 10 matches.