German women's cricket team in Austria in 2020
The Germany women's cricket team toured Austria in August 2020 to play a five-match bilateral Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) series.[1][2] The matches were played at the Seebarn Cricket Ground in the Seebarn subdivision of Harmannsdorf, Lower Austria.[1]
| Germany women's cricket team in Austria in 2020 | |||
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| Austria women | Germany women | ||
| Dates | 12 – 15 August 2020 | ||
| Captains | Andrea-Mae Zepeda | Anuradha Doddaballapur | |
| Twenty20 International series | |||
| Results | Germany women won the 5-match series 5–0 | ||
| Most runs | Andrea-Mae Zepeda (77) | Christina Gough (239) | |
| Most wickets | Soujanya Chamundaiah (2) | Emma Bargna (10) | |
The series was the first women's international cricket to be played since the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Final on 8 March 2020, following widespread disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] Austria had last played a match in a quadrangular series in France in August 2019,[4] and Germany had last played an international match during their visit to Oman in February 2020.[5]
Germany won the series 5–0, breaking a number of records along the way.[6][7] In match two of the series, the unbeaten opening partnership of 191 between Christina Gough and Janet Ronalds meant that Germany set a WT20I record for the most runs scored in an innings without losing a wicket.[6] The same pair broke this record again in match four, with Germany's innings finishing on 198/0, before German captain Anuradha Doddaballapur became the first player to take four wickets in consecutive deliveries in WT20I cricket.[6]
WT20I series
1st WT20I
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Christina Gough 72 (62) Rezarta Avdylaj 1/17 (2 overs) |
Andrea-Mae Zepeda 35* (48) Emma Bargna 3/13 (4 overs) |
- Austria Women won the toss and elected to field.
- Jo-Antoinette Stiglitz (Aut), Asmita Kohli and Sharanya Sadarangani (Ger) all made their WT20I debuts.
2nd WT20I
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Janet Ronalds 105* (74) |
Jo-Antoinette Stiglitz 17 (28) Emma Bargna 5/9 (4 overs) |
- Germany Women won the toss and elected to bat.
- Claire Pfalzner-Gibbon (Ger) made her WT20I debut.
- Janet Ronalds became the first cricketer for Germany to score a century in WT20Is.[10]
- Emma Bargna became the first cricketer for Germany to take a five-wicket haul in WT20Is.[10]
3rd WT20I
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Harjivan Bhullar 9 (25) Anne Bierwisch 3/5 (3 overs) |
Sharanya Sadarangani 25* (30) |
4th WT20I
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Christina Gough 101* (70) |
Andrea-Mae Zepeda 25 (48) Anuradha Doddaballapur 5/1 (3 overs) |
- Germany Women won the toss and elected to bat.
- Christina Gough (Ger) scored her first century in WT20Is.[6]
- Germany's score of 198/0 was a highest score without the loss of a wicket in WT20Is, beating the 191/0 set by Germany in match two of the series the previous day.[6]
- Anuradha Doddaballapur (Ger) took the nineteenth hat-trick and also her first five-wicket haul in WT20Is. This was the first instance of a player taking four wickets in consecutive deliveries in WT20Is.[11]
References
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- "The Austrian Women's National team is facing the German Women's National team in a bilateral T20I series from 12th to 15th August in Seebarn, Austria". Austrian Women's Cricket (via Facebook). 8 August 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
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- "Ronalds, Bargna smash records as Germany beat Austria by 138 runs". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
- "Anuradha Doddaballapur becomes first bowler to take four wickets from four consecutive deliveries in women's T20I". CricketNext (News18). 14 August 2020. Retrieved 14 August 2020.