Bangla shock for Harman & Co.

Kuala Lumpur, June 7
The Bangladesh women’s cricket team notched up its maiden international win over India after Harmanpreet Kaur and Co. put up a below-par batting performance to go down by seven wickets in the Women’s Asia Cup T20 competition today.
The win is Bangladesh women’s first in an international game against India across any format. After two facile victories over Thailand and Malaysia, India put up a shoddy batting performance, scoring 141/7 in the stipulated 20 overs, which Bangladesh surpassed in 19.4 overs.
India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan have all got four points from three games but India are leading the standings with a net run-rate of +3.428. Fargana Haque (52*) and Rumana Ahmed (42*) added 93 runs for the fourth wicket stand to guide the Bangladesh women to win.
Rumana was the Player of the Match for her all-round effort as she took 3/21 in 4 overs to engineer a middle-order slump. It was the batting that let India down with only skipper Harmanpreet Kaur (42 off 37 balls) making a significant contribution. Along with Deepti Sharma (32), the skipper added 50 runs for the fourth wicket stand, but it did not come at a fair clip. The duo consumed seven overs to score the runs.
It was leg-spinner Rumana, who was the pick of the Bangladesh bowlers, removing Harmanpreet, Deepti and Anuja Patil. Bangladesh were in a trouble at 49/3 after 8 overs before Fargana and Rumana calmly completed the task.
Brief Scores: India: 141/7 in 20 overs (Harmanpreet Kaur 42, Deepti Sharma 32; Rumana Ahmed 3/21); Bangaldesh: 142 in 19.4 overs (Fargana Haque 52*, Rumana Ahmed 42*).