PCB organising National Triangular T20 Women's Cricket Championship from Thursday

Pakistan Cricket Board is organising a three-team T20 tournament at Karachi’s National Stadium from Thursday in a bid to prepare for the upcoming ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia,

The National Triangular T20 Women’s Cricket Championship will last for eight days and the teams participating have been named as PCB Blasters, PCB Challengers and PCB Dynamites.

The final on 16 January, will be played under floodlights.

To maximise the reach of the women’s game, the contest will be live-streamed on the PCB’s YouTube channel. 

Hanif Mohammad and Javed Miandad enclosures will be open for public free of cost.

The winning team will bag PKR500,000, while the runners-up will get PKR250,000.

The best performer of the tournament, the player of the championship, will be awarded PKR25,000 and the player of the match, for every game, will get PKR10,000.

Urooj Mumtaz, the chair of the national women’s selection committee, said: “The upcoming T20 tournament provides a great opportunity to the players to prepare for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup. This is also an opportunity for all the participating players to leave a mark and put forward their case for the selection.

“The decision to play the final of the tournament under lights is taken to emulate the conditions in the T20 World Cup as Pakistan will be playing two of their four group matches under floodlights.

Schedule:

Thursday, 9 Jan: PCB Blasters v PCB Dynamites, 12pm.

Friday, 10 Jan: PCB Blasters v PCB Challengers, 12pm. 

Saturday, 11 Jan: PCB Dynamites v PCB Challengers, 12pm.

Sunday, 12 Jan: PCB Dynamites v PCB Blasters, 12pm.

Monday, 13 Jan: PCB Challengers v PCB Blasters, 12pm. 

Tuesday, 14 Jan: PCB Challengers v PCB Dynamites, 12pm.

Thursday, 16 Jan: FINAL, 7pm.

Team officials – Waqar Orakzai (coach), Shakir Qayyum (assistant coach), Mahlaka Mansoor (manager) and Riffat Asghar Gill (Physiotherapist)

Bismah Maroof (c), Aiman Anwar, Aroob Shah, Ayesha Zafar, Fatima Sana, Hafsa Khalid, Muneeba Ali, Najiha Alvi, Nida Dar, Saba Nazir, Sadia Iqbal, Waheeda Akhtar, Hafsa Amjad and Khadija Chishti 

Team officials – Amir Iqbal (coach), Shahid Mehmood (assistant coach), Aisha Jalil (manager) and Saima Malik (physiotherapist)

Nahida Khan (c), Diana Baig, Fareeha Mehmood, Ghulam Fatima, Irum Javed, Kainat Hafeez, Kainat Imtiaz, Lubna Behram, Masooma Jaffri, Nashra Sandhu, Omaima Sohail, Sana Mir, Sidra Amin and Umme Hani 

Team officials  Kamran Hussain (coach), Ali Niazi (assistant coach), Rabail Khalid (manager) and Sajida Fajar (physiotherapist)