Pakistan’s openers Muniba Ali and Sidra Amin created history on Friday in the women’s ODI against Sri Lanka. Not only this, his opener batsman Sidra Amin also achieved a personal record. This match was played on 3 June 2022 at the Southend Club Cricket Stadium in Karachi. Pakistan team captain Bismah Maroof won the toss and elected to bat. Pakistan scored 251 runs for 2 wickets in the first 50 overs.
Chasing the target, the Sri Lankan team could only manage 180 runs for 9 wickets in 50 overs. With this win, Pakistan also took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match ODI series. For Pakistan, Fatima Sana took 4 for 26 and Omaima Sohail took 2 wickets for 35 runs. Nida Dar also took a wicket. Bangladesh’s two batters were run out.
Earlier, Pakistan’s openers Muniba Ali and Sidra Amin shared a 158-run partnership for the first wicket. For the first time, a century partnership for the first wicket has been made by Pakistan in the Women’s One Day International. Before Muniba and Sidra, Nadia Khan and Javeria Khan shared a 96-run partnership for the first wicket in the match against England in 2019. Muniba was dismissed for 56 runs in 100 balls with the help of 3 fours. Bismah Maroof 36 off 43 balls and Nida Dar remained unbeaten on 10 off 7 balls.
Not only this, Sidra Khan scored a century in this match. She was dismissed for 123 runs in 150 balls with the help of 11 fours. This is the second highest score for Pakistan in Women’s One Day International. This is Sidra’s second century in One Day Internationals. She made her first century on 14 March 2022 against Bangladesh women’s team. Then he had scored 104 runs.
Sidra Amin has become the first woman batsman from Pakistan to score two centuries in a year in One Day Internationals. Apart from Sidra Amin, so far 2 women cricketers from Pakistan (Javeria Khan and Nain Abidi) have scored centuries in One Day Internationals.
Nain Abidi is the first female batsman to score a century for Pakistan in One Day Internationals. Javeria Khan scored centuries on 13 January 2015 and 20 March 2018. Both his centuries came against the Sri Lankan team.