BAN-W vs AUS-W

That wraps it up! Australia have been a force to reckon with on this tour. Their performances have been clinical and their domination of world cricket has continued. It has been a pleasure bringing you the coverage of this match as well as the entire tour. On the behalf of Bidipto Dutta and the entire team, this is me, Darpan Tikiya, signing off!

Alyssa Healy (Australian Captain): No complaints at all. It has been a very good tour for us. The hospitality has been top notch. Thanks to Bangladesh for hosting us. Our group has got a lot out of this tour. We did a lot of things right and that's what we spoke of: adjusting to the conditions with bat as well as the ball. I am proud that each of the 14 girls is taking something out of this tour that they can use in September [at the T20 World Cup] later on. Now, we will have a little time off and then get ourselves ready for later in the year. It is a huge summer for us. (on being asked about the world cup) The oppositions can prepare as much as they like. We have a few plans up our sleeves.

Sophie Molineux is the Player of the Series!

Sophie Molineux (Player of the series): It has been good fun. I am enjoying this squad's company and the cricket. These were different conditions to home and it was to be expected. Great to be out here and hopefully we can take this experience and use it later in the year. There is plenty of people who have been with me along the way. Players, people at NCA, people back home - a lot of them to thank. Will be nice to win the [T20] World Cup but I am focused on trying to stay on the park right now.

Tayla Vlaeminck has been adjudged the Player of the Match! Here is what she has to say. 

Tayla Vlaeminck: It was good fun, taking wickets, getting to play like this, so yes, it was great fun! It was a tough time through that injury phase but am glad to be here right now. It's always a dream to play World Cups and I'm very much pressing for a case to play in the T20 World Cup coming up later in the year over here. 

Nahida Akter (Bangladesh Women vice-captain): We wanted to do well in this series after the ODIs, but, a little better application would have helped us, which was not to be. The youngsters are trying their best every time, hope the efforts come good. Nigar Sultana is a little unwell and that is why she came lower down the order. 

Australia would be quite delighted with what they have achieved on this tour. This was the first time a lot of their players were experiencing the foreign conditions in Bangladesh. They have not only adapted and adjusted in accordance, but have been absolutely dominating against a team which has given strong teams like India a run for their money in the past. Yet again, this mighty Australian side has delineated that they are a couple of leagues above the rest. 

Australia Women beat Bangladesh Women by 77 runs.

Australia 155/5 (20 overs) | Bangladesh 78/10 (18.1 overs)

Alyssa Healy 45 (29) | Tayla Vlaeminck 3/12
Nigar Sultana 32 (31) | Nahida Akter 3/31

The Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium saw a similar story play out as the Australians dominated the entire match and ended up winning it in comprehensive fashion. Bangladesh did bowl well in the middle overs and were hence able to keep Australia down to 155/5 in 20 overs.

At the toss, Nigar Sultana had mentioned that that was the kind of score they would fancy chasing. However, it did not pan out the way she had imagined. Most of the Bangladesh batters looked like a fish out of water. They struggled to get any sort of momentum going their way. 

The skipper had demoted herself to no.7 to give opportunity to others but it did not work out very well as when she walked in the game was already lost. Bangladesh had not even put 40 runs on the board and had used up almost 9 overs and half the batting line up. She did score a 31-ball-32 to salvage some pride but it was she was alone never going to be enough to give the mighty Aussies a scare. 

18.1 Georgia Wareham to Nigar Sultana, over the wicket, AND IT'S ALL OVER! AUSTRALIA COMPLETE ANOTHER WHITEWASH! Full toss on leg-stump. Nigar came down the track to try and drive over cover point but she could not middle it. It took the outside edge and went on to take leg-stump! 

Nigar Sultana b Georgia Wareham 32 (31b, 5x4, 0x6)

Georgia Wareham [1-0-1-2] is back on.

Annabel Sutherland finishes with decent figures of 4-0-21-1. Two overs still to go. Can Bangladesh manage to play out the 20 overs?

17.6 Annabel Sutherland to Fariha Islam, good length ball around off-stump. Pushed to the cover area on the up but Fariha has done her job by keeping this ball out. 

17.5 Annabel Sutherland to Fariha Islam, short around off-stump. Fariha tried to dab it away to the third man region off the back foot but failed to put bat on ball. 

17.4 Annabel Sutherland to Nigar Sultana, short and too slow outside off-stump. Pulled away to deep mid-wicket off the back foot for a single this time. 

17.3 Annabel Sutherland to Nigar Sultana, FOUR RUNS! Good length ball around off-stump. Nigar moves across and heaves from the middle of the bat to the deep mid-wicket area for a one bounce boundary! 

16.6 Sophie Molineux to Nigar Sultana, FOUR RUNS! Good length ball on middle-and-leg. Nigar moves across and brings out the lap-sweep to find the boundary at fine-leg. But was she looking for this result? 

That was cunning stroke from Nigar Sultana. Though she seems to be annoyed with her ownself. She wanted a single but ended up hitting it too well.