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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Shaky batting leads to first defeat for Windies Women

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West Indies Women vice-captain Shemaine Campbelle.

West Indies Women vice-captain Shemaine Campbelle.

KARACHI, Pak­istan – West In­dies Women now hold a 3-1 lead in their Twen­ty20 se­ries against hosts Pak­istan Women af­ter their bowlers failed to bail them out fol­low­ing an in­ex­plic­a­ble bat­ting col­lapse that con­demned them to their first loss on the trip by eight wick­ets on Thurs­day.

Vice-cap­tain She­maine Camp­belle hit the top score of 26 for the Caribbean side and was the on­ly bats­man to reach 20, and they could on­ly muster 84 for nine from their al­lo­ca­tion of 20 overs af­ter de­cid­ing to bat in the penul­ti­mate match of their five-match se­ries at the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um.

The vis­i­tors failed to come to grips with the Pak­istani at­tack on a slow pitch and left-arm spin­ner Sa­dia Iqbal end­ed with three for 18 from fours overs to earn the Play­er-of-the-Match and her cap­tain Ni­da Dar bagged three for 19 from four overs with her off-spin.

West In­dies Women got a cou­ple of con­so­la­to­ry wick­ets in the chase when pac­er Shamil­ia Con­nell had open­er Sidra Ameen caught be­hind for 15 in fourth over, and leg-spin­ner Afy Flec­ther had Munee­ba Ali stumped for eight in the eighth over.

But open­er Ayesha Za­far hit the top score of 42 not out to an­chor a suc­cess­ful Pak­istan chase and shared an un­bro­ken stand of 46 for the third wick­et with Gul Fer­oza to seal the deal with 21 balls re­main­ing.

Be­fore this stum­ble, the Caribbean side won the pre­vi­ous six in­ter­na­tion­al match­es on the trip – the first three T20Is by mar­gins of one run, sev­en wick­ets, and two runs, and the pre­ced­ing three ICC Women’s Cham­pi­onship One-day In­ter­na­tion­als – all played at the same venue.

Ear­li­er, the vis­i­tors made three changes to the line-up for the match with the se­ries wrapped up to ex­am­ine their bench strength with the ICC Women’s Twen­ty20 World Cup com­ing up lat­er this year in Bangladesh, but it did not all work out.

But they en­dured an ear­ly set­back when left-hand­ed all-rounder Qiana Joseph, one of the re­place­ments, was stumped off the of­fi­cial first ball of the match from Iqbal for a duck.

Things turned grim for West In­dies Women when Hay­ley Matthews, their cap­tain and most pro­lif­ic bats­man, strug­gled to get the ball of the square be­fore she was caught at deep mid-on for one – off nine balls – off the same bowler in the third over.

The Caribbean side were 25 for two at the close of the Pow­er Play, and the wick­ets of Camp­belle and Chedean Na­tion in suc­ces­sive overs sent them crash­ing to 39 for four at the halfway stage from which they nev­er re­cov­ered.

Sum­merise Scores

WEST IN­DIES WOMEN 84 for nine off 20 overs (She­maine Camp­bell 26; Sa­dia Iqbal 3-18, Ni­da Dar 3-19) vs PAK­ISTAN WOMEN 87 for two off 16.3 overs (Ayesha Za­far 42 not out, Gul Fer­oza 21 not out).

Re­sult: Pak­istan Women won by eight wick­ets (21 balls re­main­ing).

Se­ries: Pak­istan Women lead five-match se­ries 3-1.

Toss: West In­dies Women.

Play­er-of-the-Match: Sa­dia Iqbal (Pak­istan).

Um­pires: Fa­rooq Ali Khan, Claire Polosak (Aus­tralia).

TV um­pire: Im­ran Javed.

Match ref­er­ee: Muham­mad Javed.

Re­serve um­pire: Hu­maira Farah.

(CMC)


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