LAHORE, Pakistan Cricket Board here on Sunday announced its women\u2019s national and \u2018A\u2019 teams will tour the West Indies for a series of white-ball matches.<\/p>\n
The touring party will depart for Antigua, where all matches will be played, from Lahore on 23 June. The national side will play the West Indies in three T20Is and five One-Day Internationals, while the two countries\u2019 \u2018A\u2019 sides will compete in three T20s and as many one-day matches.<\/p>\n
This is the national women\u2019s team third international tour in the last four months after they played three ODIs and as many T20Is against South Africa in Durban before traveling north to Harare to play Zimbabwe, a tour that was cut short due to flights restrictions.<\/p>\n
Despite travel-related limitations around the world due of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the PCB has continued to arrange the tours to provide its national women\u2019s team competitive cricket to prepare for this year\u2019s ICC Women\u2019s World Cup Qualifier, followed by next year\u2019s ICC Women\u2019s Cricket World Cup and the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n
Pakistan and West Indies are ranked seventh and sixth in the ICC Women\u2019s Team Rankings for ODI and T20I, respectively. Prior to this tour, the national women\u2019s team has played three ODI series, two T20I series and featured in two ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cups in 2010 and 2018 in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n
The last time these two sides faced off in bilateral series was in early 2019. Pakistan came back from behind in the United Arab Emirates to win the three ODIs 2-1 and the T20I series, played in Karachi, was won by West Indies 2-1, with the second match of the series going down the wire and the touring party winning it in the Super Over.<\/p>\n
The two teams last met in the ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup 2020 and the group-stage match was won by Pakistan as they comfortably chased down 125 with eight wickets and 10 balls spare.<\/p>\n
That the \u2018A\u2019 side will travel to Antigua with the national side \u2013 the first instance of the two teams traveling together \u2013 provides further boost to the women\u2019s game in the country.<\/p>\n
The players who have remained on the fringes of the national side will have an opportunity to impress the national selectors and the high-profile coaching staff ahead of the important global events.<\/p>\n
This will also be the first tour that the \u2018A\u2019 side will undertake in the post-Covid-19 world. They last travelled to Sri Lanka in October 2019 for the ACC Emerging Women\u2019s Asia Cup.<\/p>\n
PCB Chief Executive Wasim Khan said: \u201cWe are glad to announce that our senior and \u2018A\u2019 women teams will be traveling to the West Indies for competitive series in a year in which they have to feature in the ICC Women\u2019s Cricket World Cup Qualifiers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis tour presents a great opportunity to our players to further strengthen their skills by getting the desired match practice \u2013 against a quality side \u2013 under their belts and utilise it for their preparations for the World Cup qualifiers and the main event early next year that will be followed by the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n
\u201cDeveloping our women cricketers and providing them the required opportunities to develop themselves into world-class athletes is one of the key strategic objectives of the PCB, which we announced last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur players have put in hard yards in the recent High Performance camps in Karachi and Multan and I am hopeful that they will deliver favourable results under the able guidance of head coach David Hemp.\u201d<\/p>\n
The touring contingent will arrive in Lahore on Monday from where they will depart for Antigua.<\/p>\n
Tour itinerary:<\/p>\n
23 June \u2013 Departure for Antigua
\n24-27 June \u2013 Room Quarantine
\n28-29 June \u2013 Practice
\n30 June \u2013 1st T20I between national sides and 1st T20 between \u2018A\u2019 teams at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium<\/p>\n
2 July \u2013 2nd T20I between national sides and 2nd T20 between \u2018A\u2019 teams at Coolidge Cricket Ground
\n4 July \u2013 3rd T20I between national sides and 3rd T20 between \u2018A\u2019 teams at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium<\/p>\n
7 July \u2013 1st ODI between national sides at Coolidge Cricket Ground
\n9 July \u2013 2nd ODI between national sides at Coolidge Cricket Ground
\n10 July \u2013 1st one-day between \u2018A\u2019 sides at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium
\n12 July \u2013 3rd ODI between national sides at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium<\/p>\n
13 July \u2013 2nd one-day between \u2018A\u2019 sides at Coolidge Cricket Ground
\n15 July \u2013 4th ODI between national sides at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium
\n16 July \u2013 3rd one-day between \u2018A\u2019 sides at Coolidge Cricket Ground
\n18 July \u2013 5th ODI between national sides at Coolidge Cricket Ground
\n19 July \u2013 Departure for Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LAHORE, Pakistan Cricket Board here on Sunday announced its women\u2019s national and \u2018A\u2019 teams will tour the West Indies for a series of white-ball matches. The touring party will depart for Antigua, where all matches will be played, from Lahore on 23 June. The national […]<\/p>\n
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