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After 14 exciting group matches, the winners of the Pakistan Cup Women’s One-Day will be decided on Tuesday under National Stadium floodlights when PCB Challengers take on PCB Blasters. The match will be live-streamed on PCB’s YouTube channel.
Both sides have had a sensational run of form as they won five each of their six matches and the score line of the two matches between them stands at 1-1.
Javeria Khan’s Challengers ended their group stage on the top of the points table with a net run-rate of 1.200 and Sidra Nawaz’s Blasters – tied at the same points as Challengers – finished at second with 0.438.
Javeria and Iram Javed are the leading run-getters for Challengers with 268 runs – which place them third on the overall chart – and their side will be pinning hopes on the two senior batters to lead them from front. Javeria scored three half-centuries and averages 53.60, while Iram averages a staggering 89.33 and has two half-centuries to her name.
It was 16-year-old slow left-arm orthodox Anoosha Nasir who provided Challenger breakthroughs at regular intervals and took 12 wickets at 14.17. She was equally supported by 29-year-old off-spinner Saba Nazir who also snared 12 wickets at 16.92.
Blasters Nahida Khan is the second best run-getter in the tournament, to date, with 273 runs from six innings at a towering 91. The right handed top-order batter has struck three half-centuries and is the second best run-getter behind PCB Dynamites’ Muneeba Ali (358 at 59.67, one century and three half-centuries), whose side crashed out of the tournament after facing six consecutive defeats.
Blasters’ all-rounder Nida Dar enters the final in form after she smashed 93 not out on Sunday. She is the leading wicket-taker in the tournament with 13 scalps at a brilliant 9.08 runs per wicket.
Meanwhile, Kainat Imtiaz’s PCB Strikers and Dynamites will face-off in the third-place play-off at the Oval Academy Ground.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), formerly the Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan, is the governing body for cricket in Pakistan. It oversees and organizes all tours and matches for the Pakistan national cricket team. A member of the International Cricket Council since 1952, the PCB represents Pakistan’s men’s and women’s teams in international cricket tournaments.
