Sidra Amin’s Stars locked horns with Fatima Sana’s Conquerors in the National Women’s One-Day Tournament final at Faisalabad’s Iqbal Stadium on Sunday.
The 50-over match is shown live on PTV Sports and PTV National and streamed on PCB YouTube channel (outside Pakistan) and Tapmad (Pakistan).
The winners will pocket PKR 1.5 million, while the runners-up will take away PKR 1 million. The player of the tournament will be awarded PKR 200,000.
Defending champions Stars will be without their regular captain, who will miss the final due to family commitments and will be replaced by the previous year’s winning captain, Sidra Amin.
Meanwhile, Fatima Sana, whose Conquerors went down against the same opposition by five wickets in the previous edition’s final, will be hopeful to lift the trophy this time.
In the ongoing tournament, Conquerors finished top of the table with six wins out of eight league-stage games, just as the second-placed Stars did, but with a lower net run-rate. Interestingly, Stars’ both losses in the tournament have come against Conquerors as they registered 111-run and two-wicket losses.
The Conquerors went down against the Strikers and Invincibles by three wickets and 66 runs, respectively. Stars’ Sidra Amin (421) and Omaima Sohail (391) are the top two run-scorers in the tournament, while Conquerors’ Gull Feroza (354) sits third.
Among the bowlers, left-arm spinners Anam Amin (19) of Stars and Momina Riasat (19) of Invincibles occupy the top position, while Conquerors’ spin twins Ayesha Bilal and Umm-e-Hani are joint-second on the list with 14 wickets.
Stars’ Anosha Nasir is joint-fifth with her teammate Syeda Aroob Shah, Challengers’ Rameen Shamim and Invincibles’ Tasmia Rubab. Aroob has also scored 174 runs in her all-around effort for the Stars.
The 21-match 50-over tournament started on Friday, 14 November, with five teams playing a double-round robin before the top two qualified for the final.
Conquerors
Fatima Sana (captain), Amber Kainat, Aqsa Bibi, Ayesha Bilal, Eisha Naeem, Farzana Farooq (wicketkeeper), Gull Feroza, Iram Javed, Lubna Behram, Maham Anees, Saima Malik, Saira Jabeen, Sidra Nawaz (wicketkeeper), Umm-e-Hani and Zunash Abdul Sattar
Stars
Sidra Amin (captain), Anam Amin, Anosha Nasir, Arijah Haseeb, Diana Baig, Fatima Zahra, Gull Rukh, Haniah Ahmer, Kaynat Hafeez, Manahil Rafiq, Noor-ul-Iman, Seema Gul, Shabnam Hayat (wicketkeeper), Soha Fatima (wicketkeeper), Syeda Aroob Shah, Syeda Masooma, Syeda Taskyn Fatima, Warda Yousaf and Yusra Ehtesham
