PCB Blasters win National Triangular One Day Women Cricket Championship 2019 opener
Kainat Hafeez scored a fine half-century and Aliya Riaz took three wickets as PCB Blasters defeated PCB Challengers by one wicket in the opening match of National Triangular One Day Women Cricket Championship 2019 at Lahore Gymkhana.
Kainat Hafeez scored a fine half-century and Aliya Riaz took three wickets as PCB Blasters defeated PCB Challengers by one wicket in the opening match of National Triangular One Day Women Cricket Championship 2019 at Lahore Gymkhana.
Kainat hit a 92-ball 82 with 11 fours and a six to help PCB Blasters chase down the target of 191 runs set by PCB Challengers. Ramin Shamim scored an unbeaten 20 runs from 49 balls and contributed 13 runs partnership for the tenth wicket with Nashra Sandhu.
Earlier, PCB Challengers won the toss and elected to bat first. In their allotted 50 overs, they scored 190 for eight. Bismah Maroof top-scored with 55-ball 33 that included four fours. Aliya Riaz was the pick of the bowlers for PCB Blasters with three wickets.
The second match of the tournament will take place today between PCB Blasters and PCB Dynamites at the same venue.
Scores in brief:
* PCB Challengers: 190-8, 50 overs (Bismah Maroof 33, Iram Javed 32; Aliya Riaz 3-41)
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* PCB Blasters: 191-9, 47.4 overs (Kainat Hafeez 82, Sadia Iqbal 3-27, Hafsa Amjad 2-30, Syeda Aroob Shah 2-36).
The National Triangular One-Day Cricket Tournament is featuring as many as 42 players. The women cricketers are provided with a chance to showcase their talent in a jam-packed cricket season with international commitments seeing them play Bangladesh in October and November, Asian Cricket Council Emerging Teams Asia Cup for ‘A’ Teams in October, England in December in the 7th round of ICC Women’s Championship and ICC Women’s T-20 World Cup in Australia in February and March next year.
The winner will pocket PKR 500,000 and the Runner-up team will be collecting a cheque of PKR 250,000. In addition to this, for the first time, each player will be paid PKR 10,000 as match fee, while Kookaburra cricket ball will be used for the event to be played on a double-league basis.
All matches, including the final on 26th September, will be played at Lahore Gymkhana Ground and will start at 09:30 AM.
Squads for the National Triangular One Day Women’s Cricket Championship as selected by the Women’s Selection Committee are stated below:
1. PCB BLASTERS – Rameen Shamim (Captain), Aliya Riaz, Almas Akram, Areeb Shamim, Ayesha Zafar, Hafsa Khalid, Kainat Hafeez, Najiha Alvi, Nashra Sandhu, Umaima Sohail, Noreen Yaqoob, Sidra Amin, Tooba Hasan, Waheeda Akhtar.
2. PCB CHALLENGERS - Bismah Maroof (Captain), Aroob Shah, Diana Baig, Fatima Sana, Hafsa Amjad, Hurraina Sajjad, Iram Javed, Javeria Rauf, Khadija Chishti, Maham Manzoor, Natalia Pervaiz, Saba Nazir, Sadia Iqbal, Sidra Nawaz.
3. PCB DYNAMITES - Nida Dar (Captain), Anam Amin, Ayesha Naseem, Ayesha Naz, Nahida Khan, Fareeha Mehmood, Ghulam Fatima, Javeria Khan, Kainat Imtiaz, Maham Tariq, Muneeba Ali, Sana Mir, Soha Fatima, Subhana Tariq.
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