Australia Vs Bangladesh Highlights, Women's World Cup 2025: AUS-W Grab Top Four Spot With 10-wicket Win

Hello and welcome, we are back with another live blog, covering Australia Women vs Bangladesh Women from Visakhapatnam. Stay tuned for live updates.

The high-octane ICC Women's World Cup 2025 clash between New Zealand vs Sri Lanka will be live-streamed on JioHotstar. Simultaneously, the AUS-W Vs BAN-W match will be telecast on the Star Sports Network.

Australia Women: Alyssa Healy(w/c), Phoebe Litchfield, Ellyse Perry, Beth Mooney, Annabel Sutherland, Ashleigh Gardner, Tahlia McGrath, Sophie Molineux, Kim Garth, Alana King, Megan Schutt, Georgia Wareham, Darcie Brown, Georgia Voll, Heather Graham

Bangladesh Women: Rubya Haider, Fargana Hoque, Sharmin Akhter, Nigar Sultana(w/c), Sobhana Mostary, Fahima Khatun, Shorna Akter, Nahida Akter, Rabeya Khan, Ritu Moni, Marufa Akter, Shanjida Akter Meghla, Fariha Trisna, Sumaiya Akter, Nishita Akter Nishi

The surface at the ACA-VDCA stadium is known for its batting friendly nature but also offers help to the spinners as the game proceeds. The average score in the venue is 230 and teams prefer to bowl first after winning the toss.

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Bangladesh women have won the toss and elected to bat first in the crucial match. They would look to overcome the early danger from Australian seamers by not losing wickets.

Australia Women: Alyssa Healy(w/c), Phoebe Litchfield, Ellyse Perry, Beth Mooney, Annabel Sutherland, Ashleigh Gardner, Tahlia McGrath, Georgia Wareham, Alana King, Megan Schutt, Darcie Brown

Bangladesh Women: Fargana Hoque, Rubya Haider, Sharmin Akhter, Nigar Sultana(w/c), Sobhana Mostary, Ritu Moni, Shorna Akter, Fahima Khatun, Rabeya Khan, Nishita Akter Nishi, Fariha Trisna

We're done with the formalities and the players stride out to the middle. Australia will start with Megan Schutt - a slip in place. Bangladesh openers Fargana Hoque and Rubya Haider are ready for an early battle.

Rubya Haider makes Darcie Brown pay, beautifully dispatching a fuller delivery on the pads for four. She gets inside the line and flashes a crisp on-drive past mid-wicket, timing and placement absolutely perfect.

Rubya Haider is showing great composure here. On 11.2, she meets a fuller delivery on off and pushes it elegantly to mid-on. Next ball, 11.3, Sutherland fires in a short one angling across, and Haider smartly sways away, avoiding trouble. Smart batting under pressure.

Bangladesh Women are off to a steady start after 15 overs, reaching 58 for 1 against Australia. Rubya Haider has anchored the innings beautifully with a composed 32 off 50 balls, rotating the strike smartly and punishing the loose deliveries. Sharmin Akhter has provided solid support at the other end with 15 off 16 balls, helping Bangladesh rebuild after the early wicket.

Gardner strikes right when Australia needed a breakthrough. An outside off delivery, tempting Rubya Haider into a slog-sweep over mid-on, but she mistimes it badly. No height, no distance, straight into the safe hands of McGrath, who takes a neat reverse-cupped catch. A lively knock from Haider comes to an end on 44 off 59 balls, decorated with eight crisp boundaries.

One brings another! Just after Rubya Haider departed in the 18th over, Sharmin Akhter's resistance also breaks. She dismissed on 19 runs by Ashleigh Gardner. The unwanted shot came as the scoring-rate pressure was building. Easy catch for Sutherland on mid-on.

Alana King strikes right when Australia needed it! Nigar Sultana, feeling the pressure of tight field placements, charges down the track but is completely deceived by flight and turn. Healy calmly collects and whips off the bails, leaving the Bangladesh skipper stranded mid-pitch. Sultana goes for 12.

Shorna Akter is struggling to find her timing, scoring just 1 off 16, while Sobhana Mostary is holding the innings together with 18 off 25 balls. The pair are cautiously rotating strike, trying to steady the innings after recent wickets, as the bowlers continue to apply pressure with tight lines and disciplined field placements.

Alana King finishes her spell in style! Ritu Moni digs one back into the off-side with soft hands for no run, bringing an end to King’s brilliant 10-over spell. She finishes with 2 wickets for just 18 runs, including 4 maidens, completely stifling the batters and keeping Bangladesh under pressure.

Wareham strikes! Ritu Moni attempts to attack a tossed-up delivery outside off, but mistimes it straight to McGrath at mid-off, who takes a simple, comfortable catch. Moni’s brief innings ends for 2 off 9 balls.

Sobhana Mostary is trying to hold the innings together with a patient 37 off 51 balls, while Fahima Khatun adds a brief 3 off 11 at the other end. The middle and lower order have struggled to build momentum after the sixth wicket fell, as the bowlers continue to keep things tight.

Sutherland strikes! Fahima Khatun tries to attack a short delivery outside off, but mistimes it straight to Mooney at point, who takes a simple catch. Khatun departs for 4 off 14 balls, leaving Sobhana Mostary to navigate the final overs with only the tail for support.

Wareham delivers another breakthrough for Australia! Rabeya Khan goes after a tossed-up delivery with a slog sweep but gets a massive top-edge. Gardner positions herself perfectly at deep mid-on and takes an easy catch. Khan’s innings ends for 6 off 11 balls

Sutherland strikes again to claim her second wicket of the spell! Nishita Akter Nishi tries to push a length delivery angled in but misses, and the ball strikes well above the knee roll. Australia’s review confirms the decision, and Nishi is given LBW for 1 off 7 balls.

What an innings from Shobana Mostary. She finishes with 66 from 80 balls and helps her side finish on a high. A decent score of 198 for Bangladesh tonight. Mostary's 66 not out is the first 50-plus score by a Bangladesh Women against Australia in ODIs.

Australia Women need 199 runs to win!

Alyssa Healy and Phoebe Litchfield are at the crease. Healy is on strike. Fariha Trisna will open the attack for Bangladesh.

A top start from the Australian openers. They are cruising at seven runs per over. 18 runs off the fifth over and things are getting out of control for Bangladesh right at the start of this game.

Blazing start from Australia and Alyssa Healy is dictating terms in front of Bangladeshi bowlers now. 43 off 35 so far for Healy and Litchfield is doing well as well on the other end. The game is fastly moving out of Bangladesh's reach.

Both Healy and Litchfield have hit half-centuries. Australia have crossed the 100-run mark and this game is about to get over really soon. Australia showing their dominance.

Just 44 runs away from victory are the Australians now. Alyssa Healy has upped the ante and 45 runs have come in the last five overs. Healy is moving towards a hundred, Litchfield is just moving along at her own pace, which too is quite fast by the way.

Australia openers deliver a statement victory for their team. As dominant a performance as their can be. Alyssa Healy slams 113 not out off just 77 balls while Phobe Litchfield gets 84 unbeaten runs in only 72 balls. What a victory.

With this win, Australia become the first team in the tournament to book a seat in the semifinals. Five matches, four wins and a no result. The defending champions are back in the final four.

BANW 198/9 (50)

AUSW 202/0 (24.5)

Australia Women won by 10 wkts

Despite Alyssa Healy's century, it is Alana King who gets the Player of the Match award. 10 overs 18 runs and two wickets for King.

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