LAHORE – The National Women’s One-Day Tournament will begin on November 14 in Faisalabad.
The five-team tournament will be played on a double-league basis with the top two teams contesting the final, which will be held on December 6.
Among the five teams, the Stars will be looking to defend their title as they had beaten the Conquerors by five wickets in the final of the previous season’s One-Day Tournament in Rawalpindi. Challengers, Invincibles and Strikes are the other three teams taking part in the 21-match 50-over tournament.
The 20-member preliminary squads of the five teams assembled in Faisalabad on November 10 and will undergo three days of training at the Iqbal Stadium and PCB High-Performance Centre Ground. The squads will be trimmed to 15 players at the end of the camp.
A prize pot of PKR 3.55 million will be up for grabs as the tournament winner and runner-up teams will pocket PKR 1.5 million and PKR 1 million, respectively. The player of the match in each of the 21 matches will get PKR 25,000, while the player of the tournament will take away PKR 200,000.
The tournament will see 10 rounds with two matches played in each round, followed by the final. All the matches will take place at Iqbal Stadium and PCB High-Performance Centre Ground except the Challengers v Strikers fixture on November 22, which will be played at the Jawad Club Cricket Ground.
Fatima Sana (Conquerors), Nashra Sundhu (Strikers), Rameen Shamim (Challengers), Muneeba Ali (Invincibles) and Omaima Sohail (Stars) are the five captains in the tournament.
Match timings:
Toss 9am; First innings 9.30am start; Lunch break 12.40pm; Second innings 1.10 pm start
