While Ireland had recently beat England and Sri Lanka, the hosts are winless this year and last played a 50-over match in March.
For the first time, BCB has been able to secure a deal for title sponsorship and ground rights for a home women’s series.
Bangladesh will start their campaign by taking on Pakistan in a Group A encounter on October 20 before facing five-time champions India in the group’s second and final match on October 23, after the seven-team tournament gets underway on October 17 in Kathmandu.
In a repeat of the 2023 semi-final, England got their revenge with an all-round team display to chase down 125 with four balls remaining.
The momentum for women's cricket in Bangladesh would have had a far bigger boost had they been staging the event as planned.
"In abroad, they give women's sports the same amount of importance as men's sports. I don't know if the men's and women's sports are getting the same importance, but the situation has improved a lot."
The FIFA Women's World Cup final, which England lost 1-0 to Spain at Stadium Australia, was 2023's most-watched women's sport event on TV with 38.4 million viewing hours.
A record 46.7 million viewers in Britain tuned in to watch women's sport on TV in 2023, eclipsing 2019's mark by almost a million, according to research published by the Women's Sport Trust on Tuesday.
Let’s revisit the cream of the crop from a stellar year.
While Ireland had recently beat England and Sri Lanka, the hosts are winless this year and last played a 50-over match in March.
For the first time, BCB has been able to secure a deal for title sponsorship and ground rights for a home women’s series.
Bangladesh will start their campaign by taking on Pakistan in a Group A encounter on October 20 before facing five-time champions India in the group’s second and final match on October 23, after the seven-team tournament gets underway on October 17 in Kathmandu.
In a repeat of the 2023 semi-final, England got their revenge with an all-round team display to chase down 125 with four balls remaining.
The momentum for women's cricket in Bangladesh would have had a far bigger boost had they been staging the event as planned.
"In abroad, they give women's sports the same amount of importance as men's sports. I don't know if the men's and women's sports are getting the same importance, but the situation has improved a lot."
The FIFA Women's World Cup final, which England lost 1-0 to Spain at Stadium Australia, was 2023's most-watched women's sport event on TV with 38.4 million viewing hours.
A record 46.7 million viewers in Britain tuned in to watch women's sport on TV in 2023, eclipsing 2019's mark by almost a million, according to research published by the Women's Sport Trust on Tuesday.
Let’s revisit the cream of the crop from a stellar year.
Hosts Bangladesh tasted their first defeat in the ongoing SAFF U-17 Women’s Championship when the girls in red and green suffered a 3-0 defeat to their Russian counterparts at the Shaheed Birshreshtha Mostafa Kamal Stadium on Wednesday.