Pakistan’s best women cricketers will be in action in the City of Lights, Karachi, from Friday, 19 May, in the Pakistan Cup Women’s Cricket Tournament 2022-23.
The tournament has been designed to provide maximum matches to these cricketers and will be played in two iterations – in the first, four sides will play T20 matches on a round-robin basis and three teams will play one-day matches on a double round-robin basis with the final on 4 June.
The first phase of the tournament will see probables for the ACC Women’s Emerging Teams Asia Cup – to be played in Hong Kong in June – showcase their skills and talent and get the desired match practice in challenging conditions under the banner of Strikers. The team will be captained by Pakistan ace fast bowler Fatima Sana.
The other three sides are Blasters, captained by Muneeba Ali, Pakistan’s only batter to score a century in T20Is, Challengers, led by left-arm orthodox Sadia Iqbal, and Dynamites, skippered by right-handed top-order batter Sidra Amin.
These six T20 matches will be played from 19 to 21 May at Hanif Mohammad High Performance Centre Oval Ground and State Bank Ground.
From 23 May, Blasters, Challengers and Dynamites will feature in the 50-over tournament. The three teams will take on each other twice and the top two teams will play the final at the State Bank Ground, which will be live-streamed on the PCB YouTube channel.
In line with its policy of incentivizing top performers, the winning side will bag Rs. 1 million and the runners-up will get Rs. 500,000. Player of the match award winners will get Rs. 20,000 and the player of the tournament will get Rs. 50,000.
Squads for the Pakistan Cup Women’s Cricket Tournament:
Blasters
Muneeba Ali (c) Aleena Shah Anam Amin Asma Amin Ayesha Bilal
Ayesha Javed Ayesha Zafar Diana Baig Fajar Naveed Iram Javed
Kainat Imtiaz Saba Nazir Saiqa Riaz Zaib-un-Nisa Zunera Shah
Challengers
Sadia Iqbal (c) Aiman Saleem Amber Kainat Areesha Noor Fareeha Mehmood
Fatima Zehra Huraina Sajjad Javeria Khan Javeria Rauf Kaynat Hafeez
Maham Tariq Masooma Zehra Noreen Yaqoob Saima Malik Warda Yousuf
Dynamites
Sidra Amin (c) Aliya Riaz Bismah Maroof Fatima Shahid Ghulam Fatima
Humna Bilal Khadija Chishti Laiba Nasir Maham Manzoor Nashra Sandhu
Omaima Sohail Rameen Shamim Sidra Nawaz Waheeda Akhtar Yusra Amir
Strikers
Fatima Sana (c) Anoosha Nasir Dua Majid Eyman Fatima Fatima Khan
Gull Feroza Gulrukh Lubna Behram Najiha Alvi Natalia Parvez
Sadaf Shams Shawaal Zulfiqar Syeda Arooba Shah Tuba Hassan Umm-e-Hani
Here’s the full schedule: (all matches to commence at 9:00 AM)
First-Phase (T20 Format)
Fixture Date Venue
Dynamites vs Blasters 19 May State Bank Ground
Challengers vs Strikers 19 May Oval Academy Ground
Dynamites vs Challengers 20 May State Bank Ground
Blasters vs Strikers 20 May Oval Academy Ground
Dynamites vs Strikers 21 May State Bank Ground
Blasters vs Challengers 21 May Oval Academy Ground
Second-Phase (50-Over Format)
Blasters vs Dynamites 23 May State Bank Ground
Blasters vs Challengers 25 May State Bank Ground
Dynamites vs Challengers 27 May State Bank Ground
Dynamites vs Blasters 29 May State Bank Ground
Challengers vs Blasters 31 May State Bank Ground
Challengers vs Dynamites 2 June State Bank Ground
Final 4 June State Bank Ground
Source: Pro Pakistani