Women's World Cup: Australia win toss, opt to bat against Pakistan

Women's World Cup: Australia win toss, opt to bat against Pakistan
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Summary The match started at 02:30 PM (PST) at Grace Road, Leicester.

LEICESTER (Dunya News) – Defending Champions Australia have on Wednesday won the toss against Pakistan and decided to bat first in the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 match.

The match started at 02:30 PM (PST) at Grace Road, Leicester. Pakistan are not yet off the mark in the tournament and have lost all three matches. On the contrary, Aussies have triumphed in all of their games in the championship.

Australia have made two changes in their playing XI as Meg Lanning and Megan Schuttt are out, and Rachel Haynes, the captain, and Sarah Aley take their places. Aley is making her ODI debut in this match.

Pakistan have made one only change from the previous game. Marina Iqbal have come in the squad for Javeria Khan.


Teams


Pakistan: Nahida Khan, Ayesha Zafar, Marina Iqbal, Nain Abidi, Iram Javed, Asmavia Iqbal, Sana Mir*, Sidra Nawaz†, Nashra Sandhu, Sadia Yousuf, Diana Baig

Australia: NE Bolton, BL Mooney, EA Perry, RL Haynes*, EJ Villani, AJ Blackwell, AJ Healy†, JL Jonassen, A Gardner, SE Aley, KM Beams

Umpires: AK Chaudhary (India) and S Redfern

Match referee: DT Jukes

Reserve umpire: JM Williams (West Indies) 

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