Pakistan women's national cricket team
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The Pakistan women's national cricket team, also known as Green Shirts or Women in Green, represents Pakistan in international women's cricket. One of ten teams competing in the ICC Women's Championship (the highest level of international women's cricket), the team is organised by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Nickname(s) | Women in Green, Green Shirts | |||||||||
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Association | Pakistan Cricket Board | |||||||||
Personnel | ||||||||||
Captain | Nida Dar[1] | |||||||||
Coach | Mohtashim Rasheed (interim) | |||||||||
Batting coach | Taufeeq Umar | |||||||||
Bowling coach | Kamran Hussain | |||||||||
Manager | Nahida Khan | |||||||||
History | ||||||||||
Test status acquired | 1998 | |||||||||
International Cricket Council | ||||||||||
ICC status | Full member (1952) | |||||||||
ICC region | Asia | |||||||||
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Women's Tests | ||||||||||
First WTest | v Sri Lanka at Colts Cricket Club Ground, Colombo; 17–20 April 1998 | |||||||||
Last WTest | v West Indies at the National Stadium, Karachi; 15–18 March 2004 | |||||||||
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Women's One Day Internationals | ||||||||||
First WODI | v New Zealand at Hagley Oval, Christchurch; 28 January 1997 | |||||||||
Last WODI | v England at County Ground, Taunton; 26 May 2024 | |||||||||
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Women's World Cup appearances | 5 (first in 1997) | |||||||||
Best result | 5th (2009) | |||||||||
Women's World Cup Qualifier appearances | 5 (first in 2003) | |||||||||
Best result | Runners-up (2008, 2011) | |||||||||
Women's Twenty20 Internationals | ||||||||||
First WT20I | v Ireland at The Vineyard, Dublin; 25 May 2009 | |||||||||
Last WT20I | v England at Headingley, Leeds; 19 May 2024 | |||||||||
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Women's T20 World Cup appearances | 7 (first in 2009) | |||||||||
Best result | First round (2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, | |||||||||
Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier appearances | 1 (first in 2013) | |||||||||
Best result | Champions (2013) | |||||||||
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As of 26 May 2024 |
Pakistan made its One Day International (ODI) debut in early 1997 against New Zealand, and later in the year played in the 1997 World Cup in India. The team's inaugural Test match came against Sri Lanka in April 1998. In its early years, Pakistan was one of the least competitive of the top-level women's teams, and after its inaugural appearance in 1997, did not qualify for another World Cup until the 2009 event in Australia. However, the team has played in all eight editions of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup to date, and has also participated in the Women's Asia Cup and the Asian Games cricket tournament.
The increase in terrorism as a result of the war on terror led to a stagnation of foreign teams touring Pakistan in the late 2000s and early 2010s. However, due to a decrease in terrorism in Pakistan over the past few years, as well as an increase in security, Bangladesh (twice), West Indies, Sri Lanka, Ireland, and South Africa have toured Pakistan since 2015.[9][10]