Bahrain women’s cricket team shatters T-20 records

Bahrain women’s cricket team created a new record in T-20 cricket.

Team scored a mammoth total of 318/1 in a T20I match against Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.

The match was played at the Al Amerat Cricket Ground Oman Cricket.

It was the seventh match of the GCC Women’s T20I Championship 2022 where the women in red jersey's eclipsed Uganda’s score of 314/2 to climb on top of the record books.

Bahrain captain Deepika Rasangika, who scored an unbeaten 161 runs off 66 balls, also got her name in history books after becoming the first batter to score more than 150 runs in a women’s T20I.

Chasing a big total Saudi Arabia could only score 49 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs.

Bahrain won the match by 269 runs.