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Germany women's cricket team in Austria in 2020
	Austria women	Germany women
Dates	12 – 15 August 2020
Captains	Andrea-Mae Zepeda	Anuradha Doddaballapur
Twenty20 International series
Results	Germany women won the 5-match series 5–0
Most runs	Andrea-Mae Zepeda (77)	Christina Gough (239)
Most wickets	Soujanya Chamundaiah (2)	Emma Bargna (10)

The Germany women's cricket team toured Austria in August 2020 to play a five-match bilateral Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) series. The matches were played at the Seebarn Cricket Ground in the Seebarn subdivision of Harmannsdorf, Lower Austria.

The series was the first women's international cricket to be played since the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Final on 8 March 2020, following widespread disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Austria had last played a match in a quadrangular series in France in August 2019, and Germany had last played an international match during their visit to Oman in February 2020.

Germany won the series 5–0, breaking a number of records along the way. In match two of the series, the unbeaten opening partnership of 191 between Christina Gough and Janet Ronalds meant that Germany set a WT20I record for the most runs scored in an innings without losing a wicket. The same pair broke this record again in match four, with Germany's innings finishing on 198/0, before German captain Anuradha Doddaballapur became the first player to take four wickets in consecutive deliveries in WT20I cricket.

Squads

Austria	Germany
Andrea-Mae Zepeda (c) Ayse Atis Albulena Avdylaj Rezarta Avdylaj Valentina Avdylaj Harjivan Bhullar Bangalore Chamundaiah Harjot Dhaliwal (wk) Sylvia Kailath Tugce Kazanci Anisha Nookala Derya Ortasulak Priya Sabu Ashmaan Saifee Jo-Antoinette Stiglitz (vc) Raphaela Trobinger Büsra Uca	Anuradha Doddaballapur (c) Emma Bargna Milena Beresford Anne Bierwisch Christina Gough Asmita Kohli Suzanne McAnanama-Brereton Antonia Meyenborg Claire Pfalzner-Gibbon Kainat Qureshi Janet Ronalds Sharanya Sadarangani (wk) Lena Skatulla Verena Stolle Karthika Vijayaraghavan (wk)

WT20I series

1st WT20I

Germany  165/2 (20 overs)	v	Austria 83 (19 overs)
Christina Gough 72 (62) Rezarta Avdylaj 1/17 (2 overs)		Andrea-Mae Zepeda 35* (48) Emma Bargna 3/13 (4 overs)

• Austria won the toss and elected to field.
• Jo-Antoinette Stiglitz (Aut), Asmita Kohli and Sharanya Sadarangani (Ger) all made their WT20I debuts.

2nd WT20I

Germany  191/0 (20 overs)	v	Austria 53 (13 overs)
Janet Ronalds 105* (74)		Jo-Antoinette Stiglitz 17 (28) Emma Bargna 5/9 (4 overs)

• Germany won the toss and elected to bat.
• Claire Pfalzner-Gibbon (Ger) made her WT20I debut.
• Janet Ronalds became the first cricketer for Germany to score a century in WT20Is.
• Emma Bargna became the first cricketer for Germany to take a five-wicket haul in WT20Is.

3rd WT20I

Austria  54 (17.5 overs)	v	Germany 55/0 (8.1 overs)
Harjivan Bhullar 9 (25) Anne Bierwisch 3/5 (3 overs)		Sharanya Sadarangani 25* (30)

• Austria won the toss and elected to bat.
• Bangalore Chamundaiah (Aut) and Lena Skatulla (Ger) both made their WT20I debuts.
• Anne Bierwisch (Ger) took the eighteenth hat-trick in WT20Is.

4th WT20I

Germany  198/0 (20 overs)	v	Austria 61/9 (20 overs)
Christina Gough 101* (70)		Andrea-Mae Zepeda 25 (48) Anuradha Doddaballapur 5/1 (3 overs)

• Germany won the toss and elected to bat.
• Christina Gough (Ger) scored her first century in WT20Is.
• Germany's score of 198/0 was a highest score without the loss of a wicket in WT20Is, beating the 191/0 set by Germany in match two of the series the previous day.
• Anuradha Doddaballapur (Ger) took the nineteenth hat-trick and also her first five-wicket haul in WT20Is. This was the first instance of a player taking four wickets in consecutive deliveries in WT20Is.

5th WT20I

Germany  129/3 (20 overs)	v	Austria 50/8 (20 overs)
Karthika Vijayaraghavan 36* (34) Bangalore Chamundaiah 2/15 (3 overs)		Busra Uca 17 (38) Anne Bierwisch 4/7 (4 overs)

• Germany won the toss and elected to bat.

References

1. ^ "Austria Women vs Germany Women T20I Series 2020: Full schedule, squads, match timings and live streaming details". Sportskeeda. 10 August 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
2. "Frauen Nationalmannschaft fährt gut vorbereitet nach Wien" [Women's national team is well prepared for Vienna]. German Cricket Board (in German). Retrieved 3 August 2020.
3. "Women's cricket in Germany 2020 with Monika Loveday". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
4. "Germany Women's team to tour Austria for 5 Match T20I series from 12-15th August". Female Cricket. 12 August 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
5. "Women's international cricket returns with Austria v Germany T20I series". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
6. "Women's T20 International cricket returns for the first time since International Women's Day". International Cricket Council. 15 August 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
7. ^ "Record-breaking Germany complete whitewash of Austria". International Cricket Council. 15 August 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
8. "Anne Bierwisch stars with the ball as Germany whitewash Austria 5-0". Women's CricZone. 15 August 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
9. "The Austrian Women's National team is facing the German Women's National team in a bilateral T20I series from 12th to 15th August in Seebarn, Austria". Austrian Women's Cricket (via Facebook). 8 August 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
10. "International women's cricket restarts: Germany v Austria T20I series announced". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
11. ^ "Ronalds, Bargna smash records as Germany beat Austria by 138 runs". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
12. "Anuradha Doddaballapur becomes first bowler to take four wickets from four consecutive deliveries in women's T20I". CricketNext (News18). 14 August 2020. Retrieved 14 August 2020.

External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo

• Cricket in Austria
• Cricket in Germany
• Associate international cricket competitions in 2020