Pakistan Women’s U19 Cricket Team fell 13 runs short in a rain-drenched contest against Ireland Women’s U19 in their final group match of the ongoing U19 Women’s World Cup at Johor Cricket Academy Oval in Malaysia on Wednesday.
The Green Shirts finished fourth in the Group B points table and will face Samoa in the fourth-place play-off on Friday (January 24) at the same venue in Malaysia.
The match is scheduled to start at 7:30 a.m. PT, with the draw to take place before then.
From Group B, Ireland qualified alongside England and the United States for the Super Six stage of the event.
Ireland chose to bat first after winning the toss and posted a score of 69-5 in the allotted nine overs with Alice Walsh being the top scorer with a 19-ball 31 and being awarded Player of the Match.
Walsh opened the innings and struck five overs before falling to Pakistani pacer Quartolin in the seventh over. Her opening partner scored 11 off 10 with two fours while Annabelle Squires and Abi Harrison added 13 off 13 and 10 off 10 balls to the scorecard respectively.
Pakistan’s Maimunah Khalid only took two wickets in it. Their revised target according to the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method was 73 in nine overs.
In response to the target, the team made a promising start with 24 without losing a wicket in 2.1 overs before wickets began to fall regularly 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 12 off as many balls as the team fell 13 points short of the target.
Irish bowler Ellie McGee was the highest wicket-taker with two scalps in her two overs as she conceded 13 runs,