Khadiza Tul Kubra claimed six wickets against Ireland to lead Bangladesh to its second win of the ICC Women's World Cup Qualifier.

Bangladesh captain, Salma Khatun, had helped the side to a total of 209 after the 21-year-old struck 73 runs at BKSP* 3, but in response Ireland fell 95 runs short of the target.

Meanwhile at BKSP 2, Shabnim Ismail put in a match-winning performance today for South Africa to claim 6-10 and help her side register its third win in the tournament, this time over The Netherlands. Ismail's performance (8.3-0-10-6) was her best-ever performance to date for South Africa.

West Indies continued its winning ways as Stafanie Taylor claimed five wickets in the side's 10-wicket win over Japan, while USA beat Zimbabwe at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium by just one run.

As the teams arrived early at the Bangladesh Institute of Sports ground it was announced that the match would be delayed by half an hour, till the sun had risen and burnt off the thick fog that was shrouding the venue.

Starting at 9:30 am, it was a poor start for Bangladesh with Ayesha Akhter departing for just two runs, while Fargana Hoque Pinky out for only 16, leaving Suktara Rahaman and Salma to lead the Bangladesh batting line up.

Poor running between the wickets saw the home side losing five of its players to run-outs. But despite some swift fielding by the Irish, the Bangladeshis amassed 209 in its 50 overs much to the delight of the students of the sports institute who were cheering them on.

In reply, Isobel Joyce's side were undone by the star spin bowler of the Bangladesh side, Kubra, who at 16 ripped through the Irish batting line-up. However, Bangladesh's tallest player, Panna Ghosh began proceedings by dismissing Clare Shillington with her opening ball, as the 30-year-old was declared leg-before-wicket.

Kubra consequently tore through the entire top order of the Irish side, including the key scalps of Cecelia Joyce, Jill Whelan and Laura Delaney as the Ireland batting line-up failed to read the spin of the petite Bangladeshi and Ireland succumbed to its third loss, as the sparsely filled Bangladesh fans who had gathered on the grassy banks cheered the victory.

Ireland head coach Jeremy Bray admitted that his side's batters were struggling against spin: 'There were a number of things that went wrong today, I don't think we bowled well enough as a side nor did we field well as a collective group, not nearly as well as we can. The team haven't played overseas for a while but I have to say we've been found out against good quality spin here in Dhaka.

'It's a glaring fact that our play of spin needs to be improved. It has got better this tournament, but it needs to improve further. Now we have a few days off before our next play-off game we can go away and practice taking on more spin as we could end up facing the Bangladesh side again in a play-off situation and we want to put in a better performance.'

Meanwhile, a delighted Bangladesh captain, Salma heaped praised on young Kubra: 'Kubra's one of our newcomers, having only joined up with the side when we recently toured Sri Lanka and since then she's become one of our best bowlers. I was very happy to see her taking six wickets today and again showing us and everyone else how great a bowler she can be.'

Salma admitted that she was pleased with her own performance with the bat: 'I wanted to lead from the front today and by scoring runs I hope it motivated the team to do well. We did have some poor running between the wickets which cost us five wickets but we had wickets in hand and runs on the board and we were taking every chance we could. We need to keep this momentum going ahead of our last group game against West Indies.'

A young Kubra was thrilled with her first spell: 'It was great to take my first six-wicket haul and with such support here. I just wanted to make sure I kept bowling the ball in the right line and keep the flight going and it worked out well for us. I began playing cricket after my father encouraged me to train under my local coach. All their hard work and encouragement has paid off with my first six-wicket haul.'