Bangladesh’s Women’s Squad for ICC WC 2025: A Blend of Experience and Exciting Young Talent

Cricket fans, it’s a time to prepare! Bangladesh has revealed its 15-member team for the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025, and there’s a lot to be enthusiastic about. With Nigar Sultana Joty still captain, this squad will undoubtedly include a mix of experienced professionals and inexperienced players ready to stamp their footprints on the global game. As the tournament will be played in India and Sri Lanka, Bangladesh will want to build on their previous experiences and show they belong with the best nations in women’s cricket.

Calm and Experienced: Nigar Sultana Joty Leads the Way

Joty has a wealth of experience from important tournaments to draw upon, which makes her a steady and calm leader for Bangladesh. Her experience leading Bangladesh at the 2022 World Cup will assist her team in preparing for the tournament conditions, including leading their side through the arduous competition from the best teams in the world, for example, Pakistan, South Africa, and Sri Lanka. Joty will have some experienced company in Nahida Akter and Fargana Hoque, Ritu Moni, and Sobhana Mostary, adding some experience with the bat and ball, respectively. That level of experience and leadership will be significant for Bangladesh entering the tournament to help ensure that they will be more than just mere competitors, but challengers and potential spoilers.

Fresh Faces and Young Talent: The New Wave

To see this group, what is most exciting is the emergence of young players such as Rubya Haider, Nishita Akter Nishi, and Sumaiya Akter. After six T20Is, Rubya has carried her form into a promising first ODI performance. She presents a new option for wicketkeeping depth and batting order depth. Nishita, the youngest member of the group before the U19 experience in Bangladesh, also displayed her maturity during her previous ODIs. That she can frustrate left-handers and hold herself together in pressure situations displays how this provides options for the Bangladesh team in an all-round spin bowler. Sumaiya offers aggression and acceptance of the all-rounder role at the top of the order, and has captained Bangladesh earlier this year in DC’s U19 Women’s T20 World Cup. These players are simply the new generation of cricketers who can impact this format and potentially change the make-up of how Bangladesh plays major tournaments.

Preparation and Upcoming Fixtures: Setting the Stage

Bangladesh will not be stepping into the World Cup completely blind. Before their first World Cup match on October 2 against Pakistan in Colombo, Bangladesh will have played two warm-up matches against South Africa (September 25) and Sri Lanka (September 27). These matches will be beneficial in terms of not only warm-up matches, but getting the players into the play rhythm, starting relationships, and purging some early-season bugs. Overall, Bangladesh has landed on a nice mixture of aggression, skills, and awareness in advance of their warm-up matches, and these will surely help build confidence and momentum in advance of the main event.

The Bangladesh Women’s team for the 2025 World Cup appears to be a healthy mix of experience and youth. Senior player Nigar Sultana Joty leads a group that has added young players such as Nishita and Sumaiya, among others. If they put things together in the warm-up matches, Bangladesh may surprise larger teams. Cricket watchers everywhere, get ready, this is a World Cup Campaign you will want to watch!