Norway women's cricket team in Sweden in 2021

The Norway women's cricket team toured Sweden in August 2021 to play a three-match bilateral Twenty20 series, with the last of the matches having official Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status.^[1] The matches were played at the Guttsta Wicked Cricket Ground in Kolsva, and the official WT20I match was the first played by Sweden.^[2] On the first day of the tour, both teams shared a training day with Sweden's head coach Jonty Rhodes.^[3] Sweden won all three games in the series, including a low-scoring 2-wicket victory in their maiden WT20I.^[4][5]

Norway women's cricket team in Sweden in 2021
	Sweden women	Norway women
Date	29 August 2021[n 1]
Captains	Gunjan Shukla	Pooja Kumari
Twenty20 International series
Results	Sweden women won the 1-match series 1–0
Most runs	Gunjan Shukla (15)	Ayesha Hasan (11)
Most wickets	Neeha Kayani (3)	Farial Zia Safdar (3) Pooja Kumari (3)

Squads

Sweden[2]	Norway[1]
Gunjan Shukla (c) Meghana Alugunoolla (wk) Sai Devata Cecilia Elmesiöö Sofie Elmesiöö Tova Elmesiöö Daisy Holm Johanna Jonsson Sienna Linden Signe Lundell Kanchan Rana Abhilasha Singh Rashmi Somashekhar Tzoulietta Zilfidou	Pooja Kumari (c) Paridhi Agrawal Mutaiba Ansar Amna Dastgir Dulmini Gamage Anushka Gorad (wk) Ayesha Hasan Hina Hussain Saira Ifzal Ramya Immadi Samruddhi Jadhav Bijeyata Kumari Sangeerthana Raveendrakumar Farial Zia Safdar

WT20 series

1st unofficial WT20

28 August 2021 11:00 Scorecard

Norway  48/9 (20 overs)	v	Sweden 49/4 (10.5 overs)
Bijeyata Kumari 8 (23) Rashmi Somashekhar 3/8 (3 overs)		Kanchan Rana 16 (16) Shangeerthana Raveendrakumar 3/7 (3 overs)

Sweden won by 6 wickets Guttsta Wicked Cricket Ground, Kolsva Umpires: Anukool Korde (Swe) and Nasir Rizvi (Swe) Player of the match: Gunjan Shukla (Swe)

• Sweden won the toss and elected to field.

2nd unofficial WT20

28 August 2021 14:00 Scorecard

Norway  92/7 (20 overs)	v	Sweden 93/4 (14.5 overs)
Farial Zia Safdar 29* (63) Neeha Kayani 2/11 (4 overs) Kanchan Rana 2/11 (4 overs)		Rashmi Somashekhar 21* (33) Hina Hussain 1/12 (2 overs)

Sweden won by 6 wickets Guttsta Wicked Cricket Ground, Kolsva Umpires: Anukool Korde (Swe) and Nasir Rizvi (Swe) Player of the match: Kanchan Rana (Swe)

• Sweden won the toss and elected to field.

3rd WT20 (Only WT20I)

29 August 2021 10:30 Scorecard

Norway  52 (12 overs)	v	Sweden 53/8 (12.1 overs)
Farial Zia Safdar 11* (28) Neeha Kayani 3/15 (3 overs)		Gunjan Shukla 15 (16) Farial Zia Safdar 3/9 (3.1 overs)

Sweden won by 2 wickets Guttsta Wicked Cricket Ground, Kolsva Umpires: Anukool Korde (Swe) and Nasir Rizvi (Swe) Player of the match: Neeha Kayani (Swe)

• Sweden won the toss and elected to field.
• Meghana Alugunoolla, Sai Devata, Cecillia Elmesioo, Sofie Elmesioo, Neeha Kayani, Sienna Linden, Signe Lundell, Gunjan Shukla, Abhilasha Singh, Rashmi Somashekhar, Tzoulietta Zilfidou (Swe), Amna Dastgir, Dulmini Gamage, Anushka Gorad, Ayesha Hasan, Samruddhi Jadhav and Pooja Kumari (Nor) all made their WT20I debuts.

Notes

1. The series was played from 28–29 August, but only the third game had official WT20I status. Sweden won the three-match series 3–0. The leading run-scorer for Sweden was Gunjan Shukla (32) and their leading wicket-taker was Neeha Kayani (7). The leading run-scorer for Norway was Farial Zia Safdar (31) and their leading wicket-takers were Faria Zia Safdar and Pooja Kumari (4 each).

References

1. "National Womens squad Sweden". The Norwegian Cricket Federation. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
2. "Sweden to make international debut against Norway in three-match T20I series". Women's Criczone. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
3. "The National Womens team, first day report from Sweden". The Norwegian Cricket Federation. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
4. "Sweden win in first women's T20I". Cricket Europe. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
5. "The National Womens team, second and third day report from Sweden". The Norwegian Cricket Federation. Retrieved 30 August 2021.

External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo