The days of Pakistan cricket are going on. Be it any format, any team, any series or tournament, different teams of Pakistan are feeling embarrassed on the field. Under the captaincy of Babar Azam, it suffered a crushing defeat from teams like Afghanistan and America in last year’s ODI World Cup and this year’s T20 World Cup. If this was not enough, then just a few weeks ago, under the captaincy of Shan Masood, they suffered a clean sweep of the Test series at the hands of Bangladesh in their own home country. Now Pakistan has lost to Bangladesh in women’s cricket also. Even in the warm-up match of the T20 World Cup, Bangladesh easily defeated Pakistan by 23 runs.
First Scotland, now Bangladesh washed it
The Pakistani team had to face a crushing and shocking defeat in its second match in the practice matches being played before the Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 starting from October 3 in UAE. Within just 3 days it has lost to two small teams. In the first warm-up match on Saturday, 28 September, Scotland defeated the Pakistani team by 8 wickets. Now for the second time in 3 days he had to yearn for victory. In this warm-up match held at ICC Academy in Dubai, Bangladesh defeated Pakistan by scoring 140 runs.
Like the first match, Pakistan’s batting failed miserably in this match too. Bangladesh batted first in this match and scored 140 runs losing 7 wickets in 20 overs. For Bangladesh, only 17 year old all-rounder Shorna Akhtar scored a quick 28 runs in just 17 balls, which included 3 fours. He scored the most runs for the team. Apart from him, opener Shati Rani also played an important inning of 23 runs in 16 balls. For Pakistan, Saadia Iqbal took 2 wickets for just 19 runs in 4 overs.
batting failed miserably
Even a score of 140 runs is not easy to chase in women’s T20 cricket and this proved to be absolutely true in the case of Pakistan. Pakistani batting, which scored only 132 runs while batting first against Scotland, proved to be a failure in this run chase. The entire top order was a complete flop, who not only failed to score big but also batted slowly. Omaima Iqbal scored the highest score of 33 runs in 33 balls. Pakistan lost the last 4 wickets in just 7 balls and the entire team collapsed for just 117 runs. For Bangladesh, 4 bowlers took 2-2 wickets.
In this way, before the start of the tournament, the Pakistani team lost both its practice matches, which is not good news for it in terms of preparations. Now they will directly face Asia Cup champion Sri Lanka, who is in excellent form, in their first match of the tournament on October 3. Incidentally, Sri Lanka defeated Scotland and Bangladesh in both its warm-up matches.
