Tigresses seek to keep series alive

With the onus on them to overcome poor batting displays during comprehensive losses in the two international matches on tour so far, the Bangladesh women's national team will look to bounce back and keep the five-match ODI against hosts South Africa series alive by winning the third ODI at the Diamond Oval in Kimberly today.

Despite a brilliant start to the tour in the warm-up game against North West Women in Potchefstroom last week,  Rumana Ahmed and her troops failed to cope with the rise in standards in the first ODI and were defeated by 106 runs as they were bundled out on 164 runs in chase of 270.

The Tigress's batting department emerged as the weakest link and the biggest concern for coach David Capel when the visitors were shot out on for a paltry 89 in their nine-wicket defeat in the second ODI.

Top-order batter Fargana Hoque, who smashed a hundred in the practice match, struck a fifty in the first ODI and has been the only positive for the visitors who will desperately be looking to improve in this department today.