In a bid to secure a direct spot in this year's ICC Women's World Cup in India, Bangladesh women's team need to win remaining two matches to leapfrog New Zealand.

Bangladesh, on the other hand, have all to play for in the upcoming series and can still make it to this year’s Cricket World Cup if they win two of their remaining three games.

The Tigresses will play three One-Day Internationals -- crucial for their direct qualification to the ODI World Cup this year in India -- and three T20 Internationals, scheduled to run from January 19-31 in St. Kitts.

Chasing 170 runs, the home side finished their 20-over quota with 157 for seven to suffer the 12-run defeat, despite a 72-ball 103-run opening stand between Dilara Akter [49] and Sobhana Mostary [46] providing a good platform. 

The three-match T20I series will be played entirely in Sylhet. The matches begin on December 5 with the following matches on alternate days.

Experienced Bangladesh batter Sharmin Akhter Supta made a sensational return to the national side as she struck a career-best 89-ball 96 in the Tigresses’ record 154-run win over Ireland in the first of three ODIs in Mirpur yesterday. Had she not been caught at mid-off while trying to ratchet up the scoring rate in the latter stage of the innings, Supta could have become only the second Bangladeshi woman batter to score an ODI hundred after Fargana Hoque, who scored both the ODI hundreds for Bangladesh. Playing her first international game since July 2023, she also had cramps while fielding which forced her to leave the ground. After the match, the 28-year-old batter talked to The Daily Star’s Samsul Arefin Khan regarding her comeback, preparation, and yesterday’s match-winning knock. The excerpts of the interview are as follows:

The qualification scenario for the semifinals of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 is becoming clearer by the day, although no team is yet certain of a spot in the final four.

Taking confidence from their win over Scotland in the opener, Bangladesh will take on England, the champions of the inaugural ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in 2009, in their second Group B encounter at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium today.

Ahead of the Tigresses' T20 World Cup campaign, here we look at some of the interesting facts:

It will be a special occasion for Nigar Sultana Joty when the Bangladesh skipper leads her team onto the Sharjah Cricket Stadium for the opener of the ninth edition of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup against Scotland today.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) today announced a 15-member squad for the upcoming ICC Women's T20 World Cup, scheduled to be held in UAE between October 3 and 20.

Women’s wing head of Bangladesh Cricket Board Habibul Bashar insisted that even though the girls are upset about missing out on playing the upcoming ICC Women’s T20 World Cup on home soil, it won’t hamper their preparation for the global tournament.

Bangladesh national women’s team displayed a frustrating performance both with the bat and ball to suffer a 10-wicket defeat to India in the first semifinal of the Women’s T20 Asia Cup at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium on Friday.

Bangladesh’s women’s side are slated to play the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka, scheduled to begin on July 19, with an eye on the upcoming T20 World Cup at home in October. The Tigresses, however, have a lot to work out in the meantime as they suffered a slump in recent times, with batting being their main concern in series losses to Australia and India at home. Head coach Hashan Tillakaratne talked about how the Tigresses can recover from this slump, and use their spin advantage and their target in the Asia Cup during an interview with The Daily Star’s Abdullah Al Mehdi. The excerpts of the interview are as follows:

Yet another disappointing batting display saw the Bangladesh women’s cricket team suffer a 56-run defeat (DLS) in the rain-interrupted fourth T20I against India at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium today.

Bangladesh slumped to a 10-wicket defeat in the first T20I against Australia women's team yesterday at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, despite putting on a better show with the bat.

Openers Alyssa Healy (65*) and Beth Mooney (55*) stitched an unbroken 127-run partnership as Australia romped to a 10-wicket victory against Bangladesh in the first match of the three-match T20I series in Mirpur on Sunday.

Bangladesh women's cricket team lost the third and final ODI against their Australian counterparts by eight wickets in Mirpur on Wednesday, losing the three-match series 3-0.

“We are always coming up with a plan but sometimes can’t execute in the middle and that’s the reason,” Bangladesh spin bowling coach Dinuka Hettiarachchi clarified why the Tigresses failed in this series.

A second ODI fifty from Annabel Sutherland and a career-best score from Alana King saw Australia finish on a high against hosts Bangladesh in the first of the three Women’s One-Day Internationals at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur today.