Nigar Sultana Joty
Sabina, Ritu Porna visit SBNCS
The stars of Bangladesh Women’s national football team captain Sabina Khatun and Rituporna Chakma visited the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) office at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur today. They were welcomed to the SBNCS by national cricket team captain Nigar Sultana Joty who showed them around. The footballers, fresh from their SAFF Championship triumph, also tried their hands in cricket at the indoor practice facility of SBNCS and impressed Joti with their skills!
Joty included in Women’s T20 WC Team of the Tournament
She scored 104 runs in four innings at an average of 34.66, with a top score of 39 against the West Indies.
‘Visible batting problem’ let Tigresses down
Unable to make opportunities count, Bangladesh ended the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup with only one notable achievement as they managed to end a decade-long wait for a win in the competition when they notched up a 16-run victory in the tournament opener against Scotland in Sharjah earlier this month.
Tigresses on the brink after WI loss
Bangladesh are all but out of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup after suffering a demoralising eight-wicket defeat to former champions West Indies in the two teams’ penultimate Group B match in Sharjah on Thursday.
'We missed a good opportunity to beat a good side'
The Tigresses entered the contest brimming with confidence after snapping a 16-match and 10-year losing streak in the 20-over tournament by defeating Scotland. However, their batting performance fell short, as former champions England defended their lowest-ever total in T20 World Cup in their campaign opener.
Joty and Co ready to ‘dream of something bigger’
The momentum for women's cricket in Bangladesh would have had a far bigger boost had they been staging the event as planned.
‘Means a lot’: Emotional Joty reflects on first T20 WC victory in a decade
“We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. We had in our minds that this is our moment. Means a lot,” said an emotional Joty, for whom it was more special as it was her 100th T20I match, during a post-match presentation ceremony.
Interesting facts: Tigresses in T20 World Cup
Ahead of the Tigresses' T20 World Cup campaign, here we look at some of the interesting facts:
Joty hopeful T20 World Cup can be powerful tool for unity in Bangladesh
“Bangladesh is a crazy nation when it comes to cricket, with the emotion of the sport acting as an incredible tool for unity. If we perform well here, it will definitely have a positive impact on the Bangladeshi people.”
We have ‘all ingredients’ to go the distance
Bangladesh women’s team are all set to leave for the UAE tomorrow to partake in the upcoming ninth edition of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, scheduled to run from 3–20 October, after having suffered a winless drought in the last four instalments. Bangladesh head coach Hashan Tillakaratne, in an interview with The Daily Star’s Samsul Arefin Khan, discussed his team’s overall preparation and the challenges that await them, among other things, after the Tigresses underwent an official photoshoot at Mirpur’s Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium. The excerpts from the interview are as follows:
Winning Scotland game can make us dream big: Joty
It has been 10 years since Bangladesh national women’s cricket team registered their last victory in the ICC T20 World Cup. The victory came back in 2014 when Bangladesh hosted the marquee tournament and the Tigresses defeated Ireland in a ninth-place play-off match in Sylhet.
Bangladesh A complete T20 WC tune-up with series win in Sri Lanka
Bangladesh Women’s A team bowlers stood out in the final T20 of the five-match series against Sri Lankan A to help their side register an eight-wicket win and clinch a 4-1 series win at the Colts in Colombo today.
Shathi, Rabeya star as ‘A’ team go 2-0 up in Sri Lanka
Opener Shathi Rani scored a fifty before leggie Rabeya Khan claimed a four-fer as Bangladesh women’s ‘A’ team crushed their Sri Lankan counterparts by 104 runs in the second T20 contest of the ongoing five-match series in Colombo today.
Competitiveness and sporting wickets highlight Women’s NCL
Nigar Sultana Joty expressed her satisfaction after winning her first NCL title and hopes the players will carry their confidence into next month’s ICC T20 World Cup in the UAE.
Tigresses ‘couldn’t understand what they wanted’
Familiar batting woes returned for Bangladesh in a disheartening 10-wicket loss in the 2024 Women’s Asia Cup semifinal against India in Dambulla yesterday, with skipper Nigar Sultana Joty mentioning that she had no clue about what they wanted to achieve in a shambolic batting effort.
Murshida, Joty help Tigresses post their second highest WT20I total
Murshida Khatun struck a career-best 80 off 59 balls while skipper Nigar Sultana Joty made an unbeaten 62 off 37 balls as Bangladesh national women’s team posted a colossal total of 191-2 in their stipulated 20 overs against Malaysia in their last Group B match of the Women’s T20 Asia Cup in Dambulla on Wednesday.
BKSP provides backdrop for nourishing mentality
The calm and quiet surroundings of BKSP, the national sports institute in Savar, provided the backdrop for two different teams' preparations heading into two different kinds of objectives yesterday, with the weather making for interesting training conditions.
Joty revels in the prospect of ‘wonderful’ home T20 World Cup
The Bangladesh captain stated that featuring in a home T20 World Cup was a unique experience for her side, especially the younger players.
Alarm bells ringing for Nigar and Co
“Batting is the area we need to work on. We need to work on our approach and intent in batting,” Joty said in the post-match presentation.