BEIJING – Chinese women cricket team has been bundled out for a miserly 14in a regional cricket tournament in Bangkok against the United ArabEmirates. This score is the lowest ever, either in men or women’s cricket,while the losing margin is also massive – losing by a massive 189 runs.

[image: China innings]

While the International Cricket Councillink)terms China as a strategic priority, the country’s women cricket team isnot doing so well to achieve the goal of sustainable growth of cricket inworld’s most populous country.

Sunday proved to be a nightmare for cricket fans in China as the nationalside was made to toil, both with bat and ball. UAE put a huge total of203/3 on the board. Getting over the line in a steep chase looked unlikely,what happened next was nothing short of a horror story for China cricket.

A top score of 4 by Hin Lili led the team’s equal-to-zero resistanceagainst UAE at the Thailand T20 Smash, which includes other teamslike Myanmar, Indonesia and Malaysia as well.

Chinese men’s team suffered a similar ordeal against Nepallinkin2018, getting skittled out for just 26 runs, crushing their hopes ofqualifying for the World T20 2020.

While China may be a newcomer to the cricketing world, miserly performanceslike these are the real hindrances in spreading the game, inspiring thekids to take up bat and ball.

*Via EWNlink*