Belgium women's cricket team in Austria in 2021

Belgium women's cricket team in Austria in 2021–22
 
  Austria women Belgium women
Dates 25 – 26 September 2021
Captains Gandhali Bapat Nicola Thrupp
Twenty20 International series
Results Austria women won the 3-match series 3–0
Most runs Andrea-Mae Zepeda (250) Nicola Thrupp (90)
Most wickets Ashmaan Saifee (2)
Bangalore Chamundaiah (2)		 Shweta Sinha (4)

The Belgium women's cricket team toured Austria in September 2021 to play a three-match bilateral Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) series.[1] The matches were played at the Seebarn Cricket Ground in Lower Austria,[2] and were the first official WT20I matches played by Belgium.[3] Austria won the series 3–0.[3]

Squads

 Austria  Belgium
  • Gandhali Bapat (c, wk)
  • Valentina Avdylaj
  • Harjivan Bhullar
  • Bangalore Chamundaiah
  • Harjot Dhaliwal
  • Tugce Kazanci
  • Anisha Nookala
  • Mahadewa Pathirannehelage
  • Priyadharshini Ponraj
  • Komati Reddy
  • Priya Sabu
  • Ashmaan Saifee
  • Jo-Antoinette Stiglitz
  • Raphaela Trobinger
  • Busra Uca
  • Andrea-Mae Zepeda
  • Nicola Thrupp (c)
  • Zara Amanda
  • Anya Beairsto
  • Shraddha Bhandari
  • Shirin Dias
  • Rosemary Lister
  • Jani Mclean
  • Susan Parker
  • Anindita Pramanik (wk)
  • Ananya Singh
  • Shweta Sinha
  • Hinduja Venigalla
  • Nikita Verma

WT20I series

1st WT20I

25 September 2021
10:00
Scorecard
Austria 
197/2 (20 overs)
v
 Belgium
79/3 (20 overs)
Andrea-Mae Zepeda 101 (63)
Anya Beairsto 1/22 (4 overs)
Nicola Thrupp 1/22 (4 overs)
Zara Amanda 14 (52)
Bangalore Chamundaiah 2/23 (4 overs)
Austria won by 118 runs
Seebarn Cricket Ground, Lower Austria
Umpires: Dharminder Pal Rauhia (Aut) and Allala Santosh (Aut)
Player of the match: Andrea-Mae Zepeda (Aut)
  • Belgium won the toss and elected to field.
  • Zara Amanda, Anya Beairsto, Rosemary Lister, Jani Mclean, Susan Parker, Anindita Pramanik, Ananya Singh, Shweta Sinha, Nicola Thrupp, Hinduja Venigalla and Nikita Verma (Bel) all made their WT20I debuts.
  • Andrea-Mae Zepeda became the first player for Austria to score a century in WT20Is.[3]
  • 10 penalty runs were added to Austria's total due to a slow over rate.

2nd WT20I

25 September 2021
14:30
Scorecard
Austria 
212/4 (20 overs)
v
 Belgium
100/3 (20 overs)
Andrea-Mae Zepeda 65 (46)
Shweta Sinha 2/32 (4 overs)
Nicola Thrupp 50* (59)
Austria won by 112 runs
Seebarn Cricket Ground, Lower Austria
Umpires: Dharminder Pal Rauhia (Aut) and Allala Santosh (Aut)
Player of the match: Andrea-Mae Zepeda (Aut)
  • Austria won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Shraddha Bhandari and Shirin Dias (Bel) both made their WT20I debuts.
  • 15 penalty runs were added to Austria's total due to a slow over rate.

3rd WT20I

26 September 2021
10:00
Scorecard
Austria 
188/2 (20 overs)
v
 Belgium
114/5 (20 overs)
Andrea-Mae Zepeda 84* (59)
Shweta Sinha 2/26 (4 overs)
Nicola Thrupp 35* (29)
Ashmaan Saifee 2/17 (2 overs)
Austria won by 74 runs
Seebarn Cricket Ground, Lower Austria
Umpires: Dharminder Pal Rauhia (Aut) and Allala Santosh (Aut)
Player of the match: Andrea-Mae Zepeda (Aut)
  • Austria won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Priyadharshini Ponraj and Raphaela Trobinger (Aut) both made their WT20I debuts.

References

  1. ^ "On 25th & 26th September 2021, Austria will play three T20Is against Belgium at Seebarn Cricket Ground in Lower Austria". Austrian Cricket Association (via Facebook). Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Austria Cricket to host Belgium Women Team for T20I series in September". Czarsportz. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  3. ^ a b c "Global Game: Belgium Women make maiden T20I appearance". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 27 September 2021.