Uganda, May 1 -- Losing early wickets have become frequent and thereafter too certain for the senior national women's cricket team at the ongoing ICC Women's Twenty20 Global Qualifier in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

The Victoria Pearls now paid a huge price for that on Monday evening after they were quickly bowled out for 62 runs in 17.2 overs before opponents Thailand won by nine wickets at the Tolerance Oval on Match Day 3 of Group A action.

"Our girls did not show a fight in batting. We didn't even complete our overs," a pretty disappointed coach Lawrence Ssematimba said, sometimes running short of words.

"If we had completed the overs, we would have fought to defend at least 80 runs," he went on. "We had a bad loss. There was a serious lax from...