German women's cricket team in Austria in 2020

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Germany women's cricket team in Austria in 2020
  Flag of Austria.svg Flag of Germany.svg
  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]

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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]

Squads

Flag of Austria.svg  Austria [9] Flag of Germany.svg  Germany [10]
  • Andrea-Mae Zepeda (c)
  • Ayse Atis
  • Albulena Avdylaj
  • Rezarta Avdylaj
  • Valentina Avdylaj
  • Harjivan Bhullar
  • Bangalore Chamundaiah
  • Harjot Dhaliwal (wk)
  • Sylvia Kailath
  • Tugce Kazanci
  • Anisha Nookala
  • Derya Ortasulak
  • Priya Sabu
  • Ashmaan Saifee
  • Jo-Antoinette Stiglitz (vc)
  • Raphaela Trobinger
  • Büsra Uca

WT20I series

1st WT20I

12 August 2020
11:00
Scorecard
Germany  Flag of Germany.svg
165/2 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
83 (19 overs)
Christina Gough 72 (62)
Rezarta Avdylaj 1/17 (2 overs)
Andrea-Mae Zepeda 35* (48)
Emma Bargna 3/13 (4 overs)
Germany won by 82 runs
Seebarn Cricket Ground, Lower Austria
Umpires: Rajinder Kumar (Aut) and Praveen Kumar Swamidas (Aut)
Player of the match: Christina Gough (Ger)
  • Austria won the toss and elected to field.
  • Jo-Antoinette Stiglitz (Aut), Asmita Kohli and Sharanya Sadarangani (Ger) all made their WT20I debuts.

2nd WT20I

13 August 2020
10:00
Scorecard
Germany  Flag of Germany.svg
191/0 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
53 (13 overs)
Janet Ronalds 105* (74)
Jo-Antoinette Stiglitz 17 (28)
Emma Bargna 5/9 (4 overs)
Germany won by 138 runs
Seebarn Cricket Ground, Lower Austria
Umpires: Rajinder Kumar (Aut) and Dharminder Pal Rauhia (Aut)
Player of the match: Janet Ronalds (Ger)

3rd WT20I

13 August 2020
14:30
Scorecard
Austria  Flag of Austria.svg
54 (17.5 overs)
v
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
55/0 (8.1 overs)
Harjivan Bhullar 9 (25)
Anne Bierwisch 3/5 (3 overs)
Germany won by 10 wickets
Seebarn Cricket Ground, Lower Austria
Umpires: Rajinder Kumar (Aut) and Dharminder Pal Rauhia (Aut)
Player of the match: Anne Bierwisch (Ger)
  • Austria won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Bangalore Chamundaiah (Aut) and Lena Skatulla (Ger) both made their WT20I debuts.
  • Anne Bierwisch (Ger) took the eighteenth hat-trick in WT20Is. [7]

4th WT20I

14 August 2020
11:00
Scorecard
Germany  Flag of Germany.svg
198/0 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
61/9 (20 overs)
Christina Gough 101* (70)
Germany won by 137 runs
Seebarn Cricket Ground, Lower Austria
Umpires: Rajinder Kumar (Aut) and Dharminder Pal Rauhia (Aut)
Player of the match: Christina Gough (Ger)

5th WT20I

15 August 2020
09:00
Scorecard
Germany  Flag of Germany.svg
129/3 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
50/8 (20 overs)
Karthika Vijayaraghavan 36* (34)
Bangalore Chamundaiah 2/15 (3 overs)
Busra Uca 17 (38)
Anne Bierwisch 4/7 (4 overs)
Germany won by 79 runs
Seebarn Cricket Ground, Lower Austria
Umpires: Rajinder Kumar (Aut) and Dharminder Pal Rauhia (Aut)
Player of the match: Anne Bierwisch (Ger)
  • Germany won the toss and elected to bat.

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