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Sabina, Krishna secure exciting victory for Bangladesh
Dhaka, 21 Jan - Captain Sabina Khatun and Krishna Rani Sarkar scored a brace each as Bangladesh women's team, came from behind, beat Sri Lanka by exciting 6-3 goals in the SAFF Women’s Futsal Championship held at Nonthaburi Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand tWednesday.
In the day’s match, Shanu Paskaran opened an account scoring the first goal for Sri Lanka in the 13th minute while Imesha Kankanamlage doubled the lead scoring the second goal in the 16th minute of the match.
Bangladesh fought back strongly in the match when goal-machine Sabina Khatun scored two goals in two minutes. She reduced the margin scoring the first goal for Bangladesh in the 18th minute and leveled the margin scoring the second goal in the 20th minute of the match.
Sumaya Matsushima put Bangladesh ahead scoring the third goal in the 29th minute while Krishna Rani further widened Bangladesh’s margin scoring the fourth goal in the 36th minute of the match.
Mansura Parvin made the score line 5-2 in the 38th minute while Krisha Rani scored her second and sixth goal for Bangladesh in the 40th minute of the match.
Imesha reduced the margin scoring her second and third goal for Sri Lanka few second before the final whistle.
The day’s win saw, Bangladesh maintained their domination in the point table with ten points from four matches while Sri Lanka remained with their previous collection of one point playing the same number of matches.
Earlier, Bangladesh made a winning start in the tournament beating India by 3-1 goals in their opening match. Thanks to skipper Sabina Khatun who played a key role behind the Bangladesh victory scoring a brace.
The Sabina and Co, came from behind, played out to a 3-3 with Bhutan in their second match and blanked Nepal by 3-0 goals in their third match.
While Sri Lanka played out to a 2-2 with Nepal, suffered 3-2 defeat to Pakistan and 5-1 defeat to Bhutan.
Bangladesh will play their remaining matches against Pakistan (January 23) and Maldives (January 25) at the same venue.
The table toppers at the end of all seven rounds of matches will be crowned in the SAFF Women's Futsal champions.BSS