Australia women's cricket team in Bangladesh in 2023–24

The Australia women's cricket team toured Bangladesh in March and April 2024 to play three One Day International (ODI) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.^[1][2] The ODI series formed part of the 2022–2025 ICC Women's Championship.^[3] The fixtures for the tour were confirmed by Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) in February 2024.^[4] The venue for all the matches was the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka.^[5]

Australia women's cricket team in Bangladesh in 2023–24
	Bangladesh	Australia
Dates	21 March – 4 April 2024
Captains	Nigar Sultana	Alyssa Healy
One Day International series
Results	Australia won the 3-match series 3–0
Most runs	Nigar Sultana (44)	Alyssa Healy (72)
Most wickets	Sultana Khatun (4)	Ashleigh Gardner (8)
Player of the series	Ashleigh Gardner (Aus)
Twenty20 International series
Results	Australia won the 3-match series 3–0
Most runs	Nigar Sultana (96)	Alyssa Healy (110)
Most wickets	Nahida Akter (5)	Sophie Molineux (6)
Player of the series	Sophie Molineux (Aus)

It was the Australia women's side's first tour to Bangladesh and first ever bilateral series between the two sides.^[6][7]

Going into the series, Bangladesh had never beaten Australia in any format of women's international cricket.^[8]

Australia won the ODI series 3–0,^[9] with the hosts failing to reach a total of 100 runs in any of their batting innings.^[10][11] Bangladesh's Fariha Trisna became the first female fast bowler to take two T20I hat-tricks, achieving a hat-trick in the final over of the Australian innings during the second T20I,^[12] but Australia once again won all three T20I matches and completed a clean sweep of the series.^[13]

Squads

Bangladesh		Australia
ODIs[14]	T20Is[15]	ODIs[16]	T20Is[17]
Nigar Sultana (c, wk) Nahida Akter (vc) Farzana Akter Marufa Akter Shorna Akter Sumaiya Akter Disha Biswas Fargana Hoque Rabeya Khan Fahima Khatun Murshida Khatun Sultana Khatun Ritu Moni Sobhana Mostary Nishita Akter Nishi	Nigar Sultana (c, wk) Nahida Akter (vc) Dilara Akter Farzana Akter Marufa Akter Shorna Akter Sumaiya Akter Rabeya Khan Fahima Khatun Murshida Khatun Shorifa Khatun Sultana Khatun Ritu Moni Sobhana Mostary Fariha Trisna	Alyssa Healy (c, wk) Tahlia McGrath (vc) Darcie Brown Ashleigh Gardner Kim Garth Grace Harris Alana King Phoebe Litchfield Sophie Molineux Beth Mooney (wk) Ellyse Perry Megan Schutt Annabel Sutherland Tayla Vlaeminck Georgia Wareham	Alyssa Healy (c, wk) Tahlia McGrath (vc) Darcie Brown Ashleigh Gardner Kim Garth Grace Harris Alana King Phoebe Litchfield Sophie Molineux Beth Mooney (wk) Ellyse Perry Megan Schutt Annabel Sutherland Tayla Vlaeminck Georgia Wareham

On 15 March 2024, Darcie Brown was ruled out of the tour due to stress injury,^[18][19] with Grace Harris named as her replacement in Australia's ODI squad.^[20][21]

ODI series

1st ODI

21 March 2024 09:30 Scorecard

Australia  213/7 (50 overs)	v	Bangladesh 95 (36 overs)
Annabel Sutherland 58* (76) Nahida Akter 2/27 (10 overs)		Nigar Sultana 27 (64) Ashleigh Gardner 3/22 (5 overs)

Australia won by 118 runs Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: Vrinda Rathi (Ind) and Gazi Sohel (Ban) Player of the match: Alana King (Aus)

• Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field.
• Women's Championship points: Australia 2, Bangladesh 0.
• Nahida Akter became the leading wicket-taker for Bangladesh in women's ODIs, passing the previous record of 52 wickets set by Salma Khatun.^[22]

2nd ODI

24 March 2024 09:30 Scorecard

Bangladesh  97 (44.1 overs)	v	Australia 98/4 (23.5 overs)
Nahida Akter 22 (47) Sophie Molineux 3/10 (10 overs)		Ellyse Perry 35* (50) Sultana Khatun 1/23 (5 overs)

Australia won by 6 wickets Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: Vrinda Rathi (Ind) and Gazi Sohel (Ban) Player of the match: Sophie Molineux (Aus)

• Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.
• Women's Championship points: Australia 2, Bangladesh 0.

3rd ODI

27 March 2024 09:30 Scorecard

Bangladesh  89 (26.2 overs)	v	Australia 93/2 (18.3 overs)
Nigar Sultana 16 (39) Kim Garth 3/11 (7 overs)		Alyssa Healy 33 (34) Rabeya Khan 1/21 (5 overs)

Australia won by 8 wickets Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: Tanvir Ahmed (Ban) and Vrinda Rathi (Ind) Player of the match: Kim Garth (Aus)

• Australia won the toss and elected to field.
• Sumaiya Akter (Ban) made her ODI debut.
• Alyssa Healy (Aus) became the fastest cricketer to score 3,000 runs in women's ODIs, in terms of balls faced (3059).^[23]
• Women's Championship points: Australia 2, Bangladesh 0.

T20I series

1st T20I

31 March 2024 12:00 Scorecard

Bangladesh  126/4 (20 overs)	v	Australia 127/0 (13 overs)
Nigar Sultana 63* (64) Sophie Molineux 2/25 (4 overs)		Alyssa Healy 65* (42)

Australia won by 10 wickets Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: Ali Arman (Ban) and Vrinda Rathi (Ind) Player of the match: Alyssa Healy (Aus)

• Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.

2nd T20I

2 April 2024 12:00 Scorecard

Australia  161/8 (20 overs)	v	Bangladesh 103/9 (20 overs)
Georgia Wareham 57 (30) Fariha Trisna 4/19 (4 overs)		Dilara Akter 27 (25) Sophie Molineux 3/10 (4 overs)

Australia won by 58 runs Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: Morshed Ali Khan (Ban) and Vrinda Rathi (Ind) Player of the match: Georgia Wareham (Aus)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
• Fariha Trisna became the first cricketer for Bangladesh to take a hat-trick against Australia and to take multiple hat-tricks in women's T20Is.^[24][25]

3rd T20I

4 April 2024 12:00 Scorecard

Australia  155/6 (20 overs)	v	Bangladesh 78 (18.1 overs)
Alyssa Healy 45 (29) Nahida Akter 3/31 (4 overs)		Nigar Sultana 32 (31) Tayla Vlaeminck 3/12 (4 overs)

Australia won by 77 runs Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: Shathira Jakir (Ban) and Vrinda Rathi (Ind) Player of the match: Tayla Vlaeminck (Aus)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.