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Sri Lanka and Scotland registered victories on the opening day of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2024 warm-up games.
RESULT: Sri Lanka win by 33 runs
Sri Lanka began their campaign with a win over Bangladesh in their first warm-up game. Hasini Perera and Nilakshi de Silva shone with the bat to take Sri Lanka to 143/7 batting first.
In response, Inoshi Fernando struck twice early on before Sugandika Kumari and others struck at regular intervals to restrict Bangladesh to 110/9 in their 20 overs.
Skipper Nigar Sultana played a lone hand with the bat for them, remaining unbeaten on 30 with Disha Biswas adding some quick runs from No.10.
RESULT: Scotland win by 8 wickets
An impressive all-round display from Scotland saw them stun Pakistan in the opening day of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup warm-up games.
Pakistan were reduced to 33/4 batting first before Muneeba Ali and Omaima Sohail led the recovery to help them post a total of 132/9 in their allotted 20 overs.
For Scotland, Kathryn Bryce picked up three wickets while Olivia Bell and Abtaha Maqsood shared two apiece.
In response, Sarah Bryce and Saskia Horley got Scotland off to a flier with a 73-run opening stand that came off just 11.3 overs. Nashra Sundhu broke the stand with the wicket of Horley for 48, but the Bryce sisters joined hands to further eat into the target.
Sarah Bryce remained unbeaten on 60 off just 52 balls as Scotland completed a win with two overs to spare. (ICC)