Pakistan Women’s Under-19 cricket team lost 13 runs in a rain-drenched match against Ireland Women’s U19 in their final group match of the ongoing ICC Women’s T20 U19 World Cup at Johor Cricket Academy Oval in Malaysia on Wednesday.
The Green Shirts finished fourth in the Group B points table and will now face Samoa in the fourth place match on Friday January 24 at the same venue in Malaysia.
The match is scheduled to begin at 7:30 a.m. PKT, with the draw taking place before then.
In Group B, Ireland, England and the United States qualified for the Super Six stage of the event.
Ireland had elected to bat first after winning the toss and posting a score of 69-5 in the allotted nine overs, with Alice Walsh top scorer with a 19-ball 31 and receiving the Women’s Player of the Year award. match.
Walsh opened the innings and hit five fours before falling to Pakistan leg-spinner Quartulain in the seventh over. Her opening partner scored 11 from 10 with two fours while Annabel Squires and Abbi Harrison added 13 from 13 and 10 from 10 balls respectively to the scoreboard.
Pakistan’s Memoona Khalid took only two wickets. Their revised target using the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method was 73 from nine overs.
In response to the target, the team led to a promising start of 24 without losing a wicket in 2.1 overs before wickets started falling steadily as they finished the nine overs with a score of 59- 7.
Captain Komal Khan turned out to be the top scorer as she scored a 12 off the same number of balls as the team fell 13 runs short of the target.
Irish bowler Ellie McGee was the highest wicket-taker with two scalps in two overs as she conceded 13 runs,
