Big win for Australia in opening T20 international against Bangladesh

Tayla Vlaeminck has celebrated her return to worldwide cricket with a wicket together with her fourth ball, as Australia thrashed Bangladesh of their series-opening Twenty20

Enjoying her first sport for Australia since January 2022, Vlaeminck beat Sobhana Mostary together with her pace to scrub up the right-hander’s stumps.

Bangladesh vs Australia

Girls’s T20I sequence

1st T20I: Australia wins by 10 wickets (Dhaka)2nd T20I: Tuesday April 2, 5pm AEDT (Dhaka)third T20I: Thursday April 4, 5pm AEDT (Dhaka)

The Victorian fast completed with 1-30 as Australia stored Bangladesh to 4-126, earlier than chasing the goal down with out loss and with seven overs to spare.

Vlaeminck, the quickest feminine bowler within the nation, suffered two anterior cruciate ligament ruptures and a shoulder dislocation earlier than her twenty first birthday.

That got here earlier than her most up-to-date prolonged break, when stress fractures in her foot and a shoulder dislocation required greater than two years of restoration.

The 25-year-old admitted earlier than the Bangladesh tour that she at one stage privately questioned why officers had stored religion in her.

However on Sunday afternoon, she offered one other reminder of why.

The fitting-armer managed to bowl with pace in her first match on the sub-continent, piercing by Mostary’s defences because the quantity three tried to play again.

Vlaeminck’s return helped push her case for choice for the World Cup later this 12 months, additionally in Bangladesh.

Fellow Victorian Sophie Molineux additionally did her case no hurt.

After a ruptured ACL destroyed her 2023, the spinner had Dilara Akter caught with the primary ball of the match.

She additionally bowled Fahima Khatun within the remaining over of the innings, ending with 2-25.

Legspinner Georgia Wareham additionally impressed with 1-18 from 4 overs.

In reply, Alyssa Healy (65no from 42 balls) and Beth Mooney (55no from 36 balls) made gentle work of the chase.

Healy smashed 9 fours and a six in a dominant innings, elevating 50 in 34 balls.

Mooney additionally hit 9 boundaries in her knock as she too introduced up a 34-ball 50, with the pair taking Australia to their fourth 10-wicket win in T20 historical past.

AAP