Fast-thinking UAE beat the rain and Qatar in a Ladies’s T20 World Cup qualifier as a outstanding 10 batters retired out en path to a crushing 163-run victory.
UAE, who wanted a win to consolidate prime spot in Group B within the Asia Qualifier, raced to 192-0 after 16 overs with captain Esha Oza scoring 113 off 55 balls and opening accomplice Theertha Satish 74 off 42 balls.
Nonetheless, with inclement climate threatening to affect the sport, Oza and Satish retired out, earlier than the remainder of the batting line-up padded up, got here to the center and did likewise.
Because of this 192-0 turned 192 all out, within the first occasion of a group retiring out all 10 batters in a males’s or ladies’s T20, earlier than UAE rolled Qatar for 29 in 11.1 overs to take the 2 factors.
Groups can not declare in T20 cricket so UAE needed to take this weird plan of action so as to pace up the sport.
Solely the highest aspect from every of the three teams within the Asia Qualifier will advance to the knockout stage, from which the 2 finalists will attain the ultimate Ladies’s T20 World Cup Qualifier for subsequent 12 months’s World Cup correct in England and Wales.
With seven gamers recording geese within the Qatar innings – and eight retired-out UAE batters having additionally suffered the identical destiny earlier on – there have been a file 15 noughts in a ladies’s T20.
Who has certified for 2026 Ladies’s T20 World Cup and the way?
- England (host nation)
- Australia (primarily based on efficiency in 2024 T20 World Cup)
- India (primarily based on efficiency in 2024 T20 World Cup)
- New Zealand (primarily based on efficiency in 2024 T20 World Cup)
- South Africa (primarily based on efficiency in 2024 T20 World Cup)
- West Indies (primarily based on efficiency in 2024 T20 World Cup)
- Pakistan (primarily based on Ladies’s T20 rankings)
- Sri Lanka (primarily based on Ladies’s T20 rankings)
- TBC (by T20 World Cup Qualifier)
- TBC (by T20 World Cup Qualifier)
- TBC (by T20 World Cup Qualifier)
- TBC (by T20 World Cup Qualifier)
