PAK-W vs BAN-W | Twitter reacts as Bangladesh hold back no laughter after Nashra Sandhu's hilarious hit-wicket

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Pressure can make world-beaters behave like rookies, and it barely gets higher than during a World Cup opener on home continent. Pakistan's Nashra Sandhu emerged as Exhibit A against Bangladesh in Colombo on Thursday, as she clipped her own bails off much to her rivals' unbridled joy.

Pakistan crumbled to 129 all-out in their Women's World Cup 2025 opener against Bangladesh at the R Premadasa Stadium with no batter maging to score more than Rameen Shamim's 23 runs. Despite two first-over wickets from Marufa Akter and a couple middle-over breakthroughs from Nahida Akter, it was Shorna Akter who emerged as the pick of the bowlers for the Tigresses with dream figures of 3.3-3-5-3. The wily wrist-spinner opened her tally by having Natalia Parvaiz nick behind and capped off the innings with Sadia Iqbal getting caught at mid-on, but it was her second scalp that raised eyebrows with wonder and laughter.

Shorna found herself up against tailender Nashra Sandhu in the 35th over and began with a full delivery at the stumps that was promptly driven back to her. The leggie responded by dropping her length slightly while maintaining the off-stump line, tempting her rival into a late cut. However, Sandhu had not expected the Kookaburra to turn sharply and was left waiting with her bat raised as the ball ripped through to the keeper without a shot offered, evoking sighs from the Bangla camp. But as Sandhu breathed a sigh of relief, she failed to realize her proximity to the stumps and gently brought her bat down onto the bails, clipping them off to be rendered hit-wicket.

Keeper Nigar Sultana could not help her instincts as he pointed at the broken stumps with an open palm while bubbling with laughter, still a milder reaction to Shorna's whose entire body shaking with laughter. Twitterati reacted no differently. 

Haha!

Out!

Strange!

Poor performance!

Big wicket!

Hilarious!

Epic Laughter

Absolutly!

Haha!

Brilliant!

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