Women's World Cup: New Zealand to chase down 145 against Pakistan
Pakistan won the toss in the must-win game of ICC Women's World Cup 2017, and decided to bat first
TAUNTON (Dunya News) – Pakistan s batting line continued to wobble like the previous matches as the whole team managed to score 144 runs in the alloted overs against New Zealand in Taunton.
Earlier, Pakistan won the toss in the must-win game of ICC Women’s World Cup 2017, and decided to bat first.
The match was played at The County Ground in Taunton, and started at 02:30 PM (PST).
Teams
Pakistan
Ayesha Zafar, Nahida Khan, Marina Iqbal, Nain Abidi, Kainat Imtiaz, Sidra Nawaz (, Sana Mir (capt), Nashra Sandhu, Diana Baig, Iram Javed
New Zealand
SW Bates (capt), RH Priest†, AE Satterthwaite, SFM Devine, KJ Martin, KT Perkins, ML Green, LM Kasperek, AC Kerr, LMM Tahuhu, HM Rowe
Umpires
GO Brathwaite (West Indies) and Sharfuddoula (Bangladesh)
Match referee
RB Richardson (West Indies)
Reserve umpire
L Rusere (Zimbabwe)
Pakistan Innings
Score 144, Overs 46.5
After opting to bat first at Taunton, Pakistan team continued with their poor show as was witnesses in the previous matches. The batting line had no answer to the outstanding bowling performance of the Kiwi bowlers as the the wickets fell in quick succession and henceforth creating frustations for the skipper and coach.
The opening stand of 35 runs was put to an end with the depart of Ayesha Zafar who fell after scoring 17 runs of the bowling of Kasperek. Marina Iqbal was the next to go who was cleaned by Amelia before she open her account.
Pakistan suffered another loss in the shape of Javeria Khan who got out when the score was 50. Nain Abidi and Nahida Khan too failed to make an impression as they fell in quick succession after Javeria’s loss.
And like the previous matches, the poor show by the battling line continued as half of the team was back in the pavilion when the score was just 56 runs.
A sigh of relief came in the shape of skipper Sana Mirza and Iram Javed partnership that took the score to 84 however, the short stand was also not enough as Iram was cleaned up Tahuhu after scoring 14 runs.
At the end of a dismal batting show by Pakistan, the whole team managed to score 144 as they were all out in 46.5 overs.
Skipper Sana Mir was the second last to go after she scored fifty and stood out with the only mentioned performance of the day.
