Bangaldesh Women’s cricket captain Nigar Sultana Joty and left-arm spinner Nahida Akter reach to amilestone, when the cricketers reached to a magical three figure 100.
Nigar Sultana, beceme first Bangladesh player to reach 100 T20Is when she played the first of the ongoing Women’s T20 Wrold Cup in UAE and Nahida Akter became the country’s first female bowler to take 100 wicket.
However, Nigar Sultana, the 27-year-old wicketkeeper-batter, who made her debut in T20 international for Bangladesh in 2015 against Pakistan, since accumulated 1,944 runs in the format.
Her highest score is an unbeaten 113, came during a dominant performance against the Maldives, where Bangladesh secured a crushing 249-run victory.
Joy is closely followed by Salam Khatun (95 matches), Nahida Akter (88), Rumana Ahmed (87) Fahima Khatun (85), who are also in the queue to reach 100 match milestone.
Meanwhile, Nahida Akter picked up one wicket against Scotland in the in their T20 World Cup opener on Thursday at Sharjah Cricket Stadium to earn the feat to become the first Bangladeshi female bowler to take 100 wickets.
Nahida Akter is also very closer to have double when she is just 12 matches away to play 100 international T2o matches.
Nahida, in her four overs spells conceded 19 runs to reach her 100 wickets marks.
Nahida, who needed just one wicket to reach the magical figure, could claim any wicket in her first three overs but took the most covated wicket in his last over with claiming the wicket of Katherine Fraser to achieve the milestone.
Nahida, who made her debut against Pakistan in 2015, at the age of just 15, claimed 50 wickets in 41 matches and completed 100-wicket haul in 88 matches with the average of 16.82 and economy rate of 5.72 when she claimed five wickets twice in an innings.
