Left-arm spinner Nahida Akter shone on the opening day of the Women's Bangladesh Cricket League - the first-ever three-day first-class competition in the women’s game in the country - as the Central Zone player returned seven wickets for 48 runs against North Zone at the Shaheed Kamruzzaman Stadium in Rajshahi on Saturday.

Fargana Hoque's century, her second hundred, in the second ODI might have gone in vain but it gave her a two-spot ranking boost as she climbed to No.13 for batters.

Fargana has now contributed to three of four hundreds by a Bangladesh woman across ODI and T20I formats.

Fargana made 102 off 167 balls and almost carried her through the innings before departing in the final over

The duo earned the nomination on the back of their performances in Bangladesh’s ODI series triumph against Pakistan

Bangladesh women’s cricket team’s commendable performance in the recent ODI series against India was reflected in the latest ICC rankings.

Bangladesh suffered a major blow ahead of the ICC Women’s World T20 Qualifiers as pacer Jahanara Alam and batter Fargana Hoque Pinky were ruled out of the tournament due to injuries.

Bangladesh pacer Jahanara Alam has been ruled out of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifier 2022 in Abu Dhabi after sustaining a hand injury in practice on Thursday.