PAKISTAN WOMEN vs SRI LANKA WOMEN: Pakistan women’s cricket team defeated Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the first match of the 3-match T20 International series. In this victory of Pakistan, its young leg-spinner Tuba Hassan created history in his debut match itself. Tuba Hasan took 3 wickets for 8 runs in 4 overs. This is the best bowling figure for Pakistan on Women’s T20 International debut. Before him, this record was in the name of Sadia Yusuf. Sadia Yusuf took 2 for 9 against New Zealand in 2010. Nida Dar is at number three in this case. Nida Dar took 2 for 10 against Sri Lanka in 2010.
In this match played at the Southend Club Cricket Stadium in Karachi, Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat. However, his decision did not prove to be correct. She could only manage 106 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. Chasing the target, Pakistan won the match by making 107 runs for 4 wickets in 18.2 overs.
For Pakistan, Muneeba Ali and Iram Javed scored 18-18, captain Bismah Mahroof 28 and Nida Dar scored 36 not out. Oshadi Ranasinghe took 2 wickets for 20 runs for Sri Lanka.
Earlier, Sri Lanka had a poor start. He had lost 2 wickets within 13 runs. After this Harshita Madavi and Anushka Sanjeevani took the score beyond 50. After this Sri Lankan team lost 4 wickets within the next 18 runs. Anushka returned to the pavilion on the score of 51 runs as the third wicket. He scored 16 runs in 19 balls.
Sri Lanka got the fourth blow on the score of 58. Harshita returned to the pavilion after scoring 25 runs in 35 balls. On the third ball of the fourteenth over, Kavisha Dilhari was out on a personal score of one run. At that time 64 runs were added to the team’s account. Sri Lanka got the sixth blow on the score of 69. Oshadi Ranasinghe was dismissed for 4 runs. Apart from Tuba for Pakistan, Anam Amin took 3 wickets for 21 runs in 4 overs. Aman Anwar took 2 wickets for 32 runs in 4 overs. Tuba Hassan was adjudged player of the match.