The UAE will have to wait another four years if they want to make their women’s World Twenty20 dream a reality after an eight-wicket loss to Bangladesh ended their hopes of reaching the 2018 edition.
After being denied by Papua New Guinea on Sunday, the UAE had one last opportunity to book their place in the semi-finals when they took on the Asian side in Utrecht, Netherlands, on Tuesday.
But Bangladesh showed why they are the Asian Twenty20 champions by bowling out the UAE for 39 in an innings that saw them pick up eight wickets for 11 runs including a hat-trick by spinner Fahima Khatun. They needed just 6.5 overs to reach their target.
The result means it’s the end of the 2018 World Twenty20 road for the UAE, who had to make the last-four in order to claim one of the two available berths. They will now contest in the play-offs against Thailand on Thursday and aim to end the tournament on a high.
Having been put into bat, the UAE started cautiously and lost their first wicket in the seventh over with 16 on the board. Runs were hard to come by as Esha Oza and Nisha Ali put on a 12-run stand. However, Ali, who scored a half-century in UAE’s win over Netherlands in their opener, departed for five which triggered a collapse.
The UAE were 33-5 when leg-spinner Khatun dismissed Udeni Dona (3), Kumari Kavisha (0) and Esha Oza (12) to claim her hat-trick. Bangladesh claimed another three scalps in the next over before bowling out the UAE for 39.
Subha Srinivasan and Ali took one wicket each for the UAE but it was too little too late.
