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 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]
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, [3] following widespread disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. [4] Austria had last played a match in a quadrangular series in France in August 2019, [5] and Germany had last played an international match during their visit to Oman in February 2020. [6]
Germany won the series 5–0, breaking a number of records along the way. [7] [8] 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. [7] 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. [7]
Austria [9] | Germany [10] |
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Christina Gough 72 (62) Rezarta Avdylaj 1/17 (2 overs) |
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Janet Ronalds 105* (74) | Jo-Antoinette Stiglitz 17 (28) Emma Bargna 5/9 (4 overs) |
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Harjivan Bhullar 9 (25) Anne Bierwisch 3/5 (3 overs) | Sharanya Sadarangani 25* (30) |
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Christina Gough 101* (70) |
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Karthika Vijayaraghavan 36* (34) Bangalore Chamundaiah 2/15 (3 overs) | Busra Uca 17 (38) Anne Bierwisch 4/7 (4 overs) |
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