Bangladesh Women lost 5 wickets in the last 9 balls and lost by 7 runs against Sri Lanka with 12 runs needed from 2 overs and 6 wickets in hand. Sri Lankan captain Chamari Athapaththu led from the front by taking 3 wickets in the 50th over of the match.
The Sri Lanka Women vs Bangladesh Women match in the ICC Women’s World Cup was the most disastrous batting collapse in the history of the game. Both Sri Lanka and Bangladesh had some dreadful collapses, but Bangladesh suffered the most as their collapse resulted in a loss in the game.
Sri Lanka is the co-host of the World Cup and they are hosting all their matches in the island nation along with Pakistan Women’s matches. The win was the first World Cup win for the Lankan women.
Bangladesh’s spinners dominated and Sri Lanka was out before 50 overs.
Sri Lanka’s innings did not have a good start, with Marifa Ector delivering the breakthrough on the very first ball of the game. After the wicket of Vishmi Gunaratne, Lankan batsmen Chamari Athapaththu and Hasini Perera scored easily and gave a great start to Sri Lanka.
The captain scored 46 runs from 43 balls before being dismissed by Rabiya Khan and Shona Ector dismissed Hasini Perera, who brought up her maiden international half-century in her 143rd game. She knocked down a ton but lost to Shorna on 85 runs.
Athapaththu completed the milestone of 4000 international runs in ODIs while also reaching the milestone of 1000 runs with a half century. Thereafter, Lankan women were the architects of their own downfall, while Shoorna Ector took over the Lankan middle order. After the dismissal of Neelakshi de Silva, Sri Lankan women could score only 28 runs in the last 103 balls and six wickets fell.
Bangladesh secured the target till 48th over in the presence of Nigar Sultana.
Bangladesh’s innings may not have had a good start with the fall of three early wickets, but captain Nigar Sultana guided the Tigresses safely towards the target, if not comprehensively. Sultana played an excellent inning of 77 runs off 98 balls and was also supported by Sharmin Akhtar, who scored an unbeaten 64* off 103 balls.
These runs came as part of a huge partnership of 82 runs between Sultana and Sharmin Akhtar and later a 50-run stand with Shoran Akhtar. However, Bangladesh’s ship was not moving fast enough, and due to this over-vigilance, they collapsed in the final moments of the game.
Sri Lanka defeated Bangladesh with a team hat-trick in the last over that changed the match of the Women’s World Cup.
The Women’s World Cup lacked a promising series of thrilling finales; However, in the last two matches of the World Cup, there have been two intriguing encounters, first between India and England and then between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Chasing a total of 203, Bangladesh fell from 191/4 in 48 overs to 195/9 in 50 overs. In a thrilling final encounter, Sri Lankan Women took 5 wickets in the last two overs, 4 of which came off the first four balls of Chamari Athapaththu alone in the final over of the match.
This marked a team hat-trick with one run-out preventing Athapaththu’s hat-trick, as she finished with figures of 4/42. The team’s hat-trick had left Bangladesh women helpless as they are now officially out of the race for the World Cup semi-finals.
An epic choke
You have never seen anything like this!!
Bangladesh needed 12 runs out of 12 and had 6 wickets in hand.
they lost the match by 7 runs #SLWvBANW pic.twitter.com/qhCyF5is1i
– Cricbuzz (@cricbuzz) 20 October 2025
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