Malaysia’s Kinrara Oval and Royal Selangor Club, both situated in Klang Valley, will be host to Women’s team’s from 6 countries for one week of enthralling T20 action in the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Women’s Asia Cup 2018.
Host’s Malaysia will see team’s from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand and themselves compete from 03rd Jun – 10th Jun, 2018 for the Title. The tournament will provide Thai Women’s team the much required competitive game time against top International team’s from the region before they head to Netherlands for ICC Women’s WorldT20 qualifiers in Jul 2018.
ACC Women’s Asia Cup Schedule (All times local):
03rd June – India vs Malaysia @Kinrara (10am) ; Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka @Royal Selangor Club (10am) ; Pakistan vs Thailand @Kinrara (2pm)
04th June – Bangladesh vs Pakistan @Kinrara (10am) ; India vs Thailand @Royal Selangor Club (10am) ; Sri Lanka vs Malaysia @Royal Selangor Club (2pm)
06th June – Pakistan vs Sri Lanka @Kinrara (10am) ; Thailand vs Malaysia @Royal Selangor Club (10am) ; India vs Bangladesh @Kinrara (2pm)
07th June – Bangladesh vs Thailand @Kinrara (10am) ; Pakistan vs Malaysia @Royal Selangor Club (10am) ; India vs Sri Lanka @Royal Selangor Club (2pm)
09th June – India vs Pakistan @Kinrara (10am) ; Sri Lanka vs Thailand @Royal Selangor Club (10am) ; Bangladesh vs Malaysia @Royal Selangor Club (2pm)
10th June – Final (01st vs 02nd) @Kinrara
All matches will be played in the T20 format. Malaysia Women and Thailand Women took part in the ASEAN Women’s T20 Cup earlier this year and the Asia Cup gives them further opportunities to grow the Women’s game in the region.
Chanida Sutthiruang and Ratanaporn Padunglerd will be expected to provide good start with the ball for Thailand Women with support from Wongpaka Leingprasert, Nattaya Boochatham and Sornnarin Tippoch. Nathakan Chantham along with Boochatham and Tippoch will be expected to be the mainstay of Thailand’s batting line-up. While for Malaysia, much will depend on their captain, Winifred Duraisingam, but they also have few other prospects in Nur Nadihirah and Nur Syazwina in the bowling ranks.
Malaysia’s batting has always been a bother for the team with not much coming in terms of partnerships at the top of the order or in the middle-order. The last time both these teams met in the ASEAN Women’s T20 Cup, Thailand easily defended their total of 156 by bowling out Malaysia for only 48 runs.
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