LA­HORE – To stand any chance of qual­i­fy­ing for the 2025 ICC Women’s World Cup, West In­dies Women must reg­is­ter a huge win over min­nows Thai­land in their fi­nal World Cup Qual­i­fi­er in Pak­istan on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Af­ter a dis­ap­point­ing start to the tour­na­ment where they lost their open­ing match to Scot­land be­fore be­ing sound­ly whipped by Pak­istan, the re­gion­al side will need a string of re­sults to go their way if they are to claim one of the two qual­i­fy­ing spots on of­fer for the Women’s World Cup, which will bowl off in Sep­tem­ber in In­dia.

Ire­land Women did them a favour by knock­ing Scot­land out of con­tention by de­feat­ing them by one wick­et in a thrilling con­test on Fri­day.

As it cur­rent­ly stands, West In­dies Women are fifth in the stand­ings on four points with two wins and two loss­es, the same as Ire­land and Scot­land, who have played all their match­es.

How­ev­er, the West In­dies have an un­healthy net run rate (NRR) of -0.283.

Pak­istan have won all four of their match­es and are on eight points, with Bangladesh in sec­ond po­si­tion on six points.

With un­beat­en Pak­istan hav­ing al­ready clinched one of the two spots, West In­dies Women will need a mas­sive win over the win­less Thai­land side, and hope that Pak­istan al­so de­feat Bangladesh hand­i­ly in their fi­nal match.

Bangladesh have a NRR of 1.033 and could still ad­vance even if they lose and West In­dies win, once it is not by a large mar­gin.

CMC