Bangladesh women’s cricket team captain Nigar Sultana Joty expressed her disappointment after a heartbreaking loss against Sri Lanka in their sixth match of the ongoing Women’s World Cup on Monday, admitting that her team needs to learn to handle pressure better in crucial moments.
Joty said to the post-match conference, “It’s really heartbreaking, definitely, because we came here to win. This kind of match, I think we played three games against England, South Africa and now Sri Lanka. I think we need to think about it and we have to learn so many things. This kind of situation, how we should calm our nerves and how we should get runs. And definitely, the young players have been playing in the middle at crucial moments. So, I think they should learn.”
The captain’s remarks highlight a broader challenge for the Tigresses, building the mental toughness required to close out competitive games against higher-ranked sides. With a growing pool of talented youngsters and increasing international experience, Joty believes the team is on the right path, but needs to translate learning into results.
Joty expressed her thoughts on improvement and possible ways to overcome,
“The more competitive cricket you play, the sharper your skills get. In ICC tournaments, we face new situations that we don’t often see in bilateral series, where we play the same opponents again and again. A stronger domestic setup or league system would help a lot. If we get to play more competitive games at home, our chances of losing tight matches will go down for sure.”
The skipper and Sharmin Akhter did try to balance the scorecard and not giving wickets. They added 82 runs together and took the team at a stable position. She mentioned that phase as crucial and stated, “First of all, I guess we lose early three wickets. So, me and Supta were trying to build a partnership. And we were talking like if we could play till 35th to 40th over, maybe we can finish the game before five overs left. Because both the batter, we batted really well and we are very comfortable in the middle. And at some point, I guess, Supta was stuck and me also were stuck in there because we started very well getting run singles, especially, but couldn’t get any boundaries in the middle. And the run rate kept going, so we had to run with the run rate. So maybe we tried a lot, some where we actually couldn’t capitalize ourselves in the middle.”

Tigresses will face India for their last match on 26 October at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam, India.