Pakistan’s Diana Baig celebrates a dismissal throughout their ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier match in opposition to Eire on the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on April 9, 2025 — Fb/PakistanCricketBoard
LAHORE: Pakistan grabbed a 38-run victory over Eire with assist of Aliya Riaz and Sidra Amin’s half-centuries and Diana Baig’s four-wicket haul within the opening match of the ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier on the Gaddafi Stadium on Wednesday.
Put into bat first, the house facet had a modest whole of 217 earlier than getting bowled in 49 overs.
The inexperienced shirts acquired off to a shaky begin to their innings as their opener Gull Feroza (4), fell sufferer to Jane Maguire within the second over with simply 4 runs on the board.
Muneeba was additionally eliminated by Maguire within the twenty first over. She scored 32 off 59 deliveries with the assistance of 4 boundaries.
Sidra was then concerned in one other essential partnership for Pakistan when she put collectively a 72-run stand with Aliya Riaz, which took their whole previous the 150-run mark.
The anchoring partnership culminated with Sidra’s dismissal within the thirty sixth over. She scored 51 off 112 deliveries, hitting three fours.
Aliya adopted swimsuit simply 5 overs later and walked again after top-scoring for Pakistan with a 58-ball 52, studded with 4 fours and a six.
Her dismissal sparked a lower-order collapse, which noticed Pakistan shedding all of their remaining six wickets for simply 42 runs.
Maguire was the standout bowler for Eire, taking three wickets for simply 33 runs in 10 overs, adopted by Arlene Kelly and Cara Murray, who bagged two every.
Chasing a modest 218-run goal, Eire’s batting unit unfolded on a meagre 179 in 44 overs regardless of notable contributions from their prime order.
Eire had been on observe to chase down the overall when skipper Gaby Lewis and wicketkeeper batter Amy Hunter had been within the center.
The duo had recovered Eire from 27/1 in 8.1 overs to 96/2 in 23 overs till Nashra Sandhu dismissed each set batters within the span of 28 deliveries.
Lewis and Hunter remained the joint top-scorers for Eire with 44 every.
Their back-to-back dismissal sparked a collapse, which noticed Eire shedding their remaining seven wickets for simply 66 runs and consequently getting bowled out for 179.
Center-order batter Orla Prendergast was the opposite notable run-getter for Eire with a 53-ball 37.
Baig led the bowling cost for Pakistan with 4 wickets, adopted by Sandhu with three, whereas Sadia Iqbal picked up two.
For her match-winning bowling efficiency, Baig was adjudged the Participant of the Match.
Within the second match of the ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier, Scotland edged previous West Indies by 11 runs to make a triumphant begin to their marketing campaign.
