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Hymn of champions: Part-1

Tale of miraculous emergence of Tigress in cricket

Published : Wednesday, 13 June, 2018 at 12:00 AM
Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan
Bangladesh Women Cricket Team celebrating after winning the ACC Women's Cup 2018 beating India in the final on Sunday.	photo: Acc"It's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong uttered the quote after landing onto the lunar sea 'Peace of Tranquillity' on July 1969. Now space is not so far, Mars has been conquered and men contemplating to build habitats on the planets other than the mother earth. That's how a success story gets mellowness.
Bangladesh is no more a creeping child of cricket. They have gone so far, done many things in cricket arena and wrote many success stories to their fore. The latest cricketing fairy tale had written by Bangladesh women's cricket team on June 10 at Kinrara Oval stadium in Malaysia, which has brought some nostalgic flashbacks to eyesight once again, created some ponders and pleaded future initiatives.
Kuala Lumpur, the holy land for Bangladesh cricket
It was 13 April 1997, when Bangladesh cricket started it's triumphant march beating Kenya, who need not to look back for a while later. The name of the venue was Kelab Kilat, situated in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. Bangladesh are now the fullest member of the ICC holding the 7th position in the ODI rankings and 8th among the Test playing nations.
It was the story of Bangladesh men cricket side. After 21 years, Bangladesh women counterparts of the cricket loving country started another journey holding the Asian crown beating never-beatable Indian women couple of days back. The success took place in the same city of the same country but in a different venue, the Kinrara Oval of Royal Selangor Club.
It's now the turn of Tigresses to extend their success as men did; in fact doing in every match.

Bird's eye view on Women's cricket team of Bangladesh
Bangladesh women's cricket team started their journey in the year 2007 by competing in the ACC Women's Cup, who beat Thailand that year. Tigresses played ICC women's world cup qualifier in the year 2011 and got their ODI status. Subsequently they had bulged their experiences and confidence over time.
They played two women's world cup in 2014 and 2016 respectively, who are all set to champ the upcoming version of ICC Women's World T20 qualifier, which has been scheduled to stage from July 7 to 14 this year in the Netherlands.
They participated in consecutive Aisian games in the year 2010 and 2014 respectively and returned home with silver both the times.
Bangladesh eves played in three ACC Women's Asia Cup, among which they finished at fourth in their first appearance in 2008, third in 2012 and clinched the title in their third presence only this year.
What a story of paradigm shift!
To be contunued...






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