KARACHI, Pak­istan—Wick­et­keep­er She­maine Camp­belle ran out Tu­ba Has­san off the fi­nal ball of the in­nings as West In­dies Women pulled off a dra­mat­ic one-run vic­to­ry over Pak­istan Women in the open­ing Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al on Fri­day.

With the hosts need­ing two off the fi­nal de­liv­ery in pur­suit of 123 at Na­tion­al Bank Sta­di­um, Na­ji­ha Alvi played and missed at a widish de­liv­ery from fast bowler Shamil­ia Con­nell and Camp­bell quick­ly threw down the stumps at the strik­er’s end, af­ter the bat­ters at­tempt­ed to steal a sin­gle in or­der to lev­el the scores.

It capped off a thrilling last over that saw Tu­ba near­ly hole out to mid-wick­et off the first ball be­fore scram­bling a cou­ple, and then sky to mid off where cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews could on­ly get her fin­ger­tips to the catch.

Na­ji­ha turned the game in her side’s favour, how­ev­er, when she thread­ed the penul­ti­mate de­liv­ery through ex­tra cov­er for four but Con­nell then held her nerves for the de­ci­sive de­liv­ery.

Pak­istan looked to be cruis­ing when they reached 104 for four cour­tesy of cap­tain Ni­da Dar’s breezy 27 off 24 de­liv­er­ies be­fore off-spin­ner Kar­ish­ma Ramharack turned the game on its head by grab­bing three wick­ets in the 18th over in a Play­er-of-the-Match ef­fort.

The 29-year-old, who fin­ished with a ca­reer-best four for 15 from her four overs, knocked over Aliya Ri­az (12) and Fa­ti­ma Sana (0) in suc­ces­sive de­liv­er­ies be­fore hav­ing Dar caught at cov­er point by sub­sti­tute Jan­nil­lea Glas­gow on the sec­ond at­tempt, off the fi­nal ball of the over.

Pak­istan had ear­li­er flour­ished af­ter Sidra Ameen (23) and Gull Fer­oza (13) put on 37 off 33 de­liv­er­ies for the first wick­et be­fore Dar added 22 for the fourth wick­et with Munee­ba Ali (17) and a fur­ther 28 for the fifth with Ri­az (18).

Choos­ing to bat first, West In­dies Women lost their tal­is­man­ic skip­per Hay­ley Matthews with­out scor­ing to the sec­ond ball of the in­nings with­out a run on the board, caught at the wick­et off left-arm spin­ner Sa­dia Iqbal (2-23).

And when vice-cap­tain Camp­belle per­ished in the fourth over for two lbw to seam­er Di­ana Baig, the vis­i­tors were stum­bling on 14 for two.

Qiana Joseph, in her first match of the tour, came to her side’s res­cue with a top score of 34 off 36 balls with four fours, post­ing a cru­cial 55 for the third wick­et with for­mer cap­tain Stafanie Tay­lor, whose 30 came from 32 balls and al­so in­clud­ed four fours.

They fell in suc­ces­sive overs, Tay­lor sky­ing to deep mid-wick­et in the 13th over and left-han­der Joseph loft­ing low to mid-on in the 14th, and there­after seam­er Fa­ti­ma Sana kept the scor­ing in check with a spell of three for 24. (CMC)