Weather aids West Indies Women in winning the first Twenty20 match against Pakistan Women – Cricket News Update
Although the team kicked off with a troublesome start, the West Indies Women had much to thank the home turf weather conditions which aided the hosts into marking a cut throat, single run win against the Pakistani Women side.
From the ongoing Pakistan Women’s Tour of West Indies, the match came as the opening Twenty20 (T20) bout from the limited overs series and came alive at the Progress Park, St Andrew’s, on Tuesday, September 6, 2011.
What was to be a 20-over game, was trimmed down to an 18-over match as rain kept disrupting the fixture.
The bout however, finally kicked off with Pakistan Captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 Women into batting first. For the skipper may have hoped to make use of the weather conditions.
Cherishing her verdict, Mir stood out fortunate after the St Andrew’s pitch turned in Pakistani ladies’ favour, who managed to deliver some successful early blows to the Windies top order, securing fair wickets as the procession trailed on.
The initial damage came primarily from skipper Mir, and left-arm bowler http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sadia-Yousuf-c87834. As for the hosts, West Indies saw more trouble, following a successive crumble at its batting line-up.
The team’s misery finally came to an end at the conclusion of their innings. The Windies ladies managed to come up with a minor chase for the Green Caps, bagging a mediocre total of 90, while losing 8 players on the roster.
The highest wicket takers for Pakistan remained to be attacking bowler http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nida-Rashid-Dar-c79512. Both the players managed to earn 2 wickets a piece.
As for the hosts, opening batter Stafanie http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915 was the highest scorer for the side, earning 24.
However, just when Pakistan had thought of taking on an easy chase, rain turned against the tourists, which eventually led the match to be reduced to an 11-over bout, leaving http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 with a target of 58.
Suffering an early run out dismissal of Pakistan’s opening batter, Dar, the team came under much pressure, but with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Marina-Iqbal-c74453 taking over the chase, the team saw some hope.
However, all failed for the team, which went into losing both the batters. Suffering a total loss of 3 wickets, the succeeding batters then took on the mark, trailing into the final moments of the fixture.
With the arrival of the 11th over, trouble came for the visiting side, which was eventually forced into falling just a single short of the chase, losing the opening T20 bout.
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