Dar’s fifty goes in vain as Barbados hand Pakistan crushing defeat in CWG 30-07-2022

Dar’s fifty goes in vain as Barbados hand Pakistan crushing defeat in CWG 30-07-2022

 BIRMINGHAM: Captain Hayley Matthews and Kycia Knight featured as Barbados Women pounded Pakistan Women by 15 runs in their initial match of the continuous Commonwealth Games 2022.

Set to pursue 145, Pakistan fell 15 runs short as the Green Shirts could figure out how to score 129/6 in the designated 20 overs regardless of a splendid 50 years by all-rounder Nida Dar.

The Green Shirts ended up in a tough situation from the beginning in the run pursue as the side lost four wickets at a joined score of 49 in the eleventh over with the skipper Bismah Maroof being the most recent setback, who battled for her 12 off 28 conveyances.

Dar was the exemption in the horrid batting show showed by Pakistan as she scored an unbeaten 50 at a fast speed; confronting a simple 31 conveyances and crushed eight limits including a six.

Another Pakistan all-rounder Aliya Riaz, regardless, likewise found it hard to continue onward as she could score 14 off 24 conveyances.

Following the top request disappointment and agonizingly slow clip thumps of Bismah and Aliya, Pakistan stayed 15 runs shy of the objective as Dar's courageous exertion went to no end.

For Barbados, Shamilia Connell, Aaliyah Alleyne, Matthews, and Deandra Dottin made one scalp each.

Batting first, Barbados completed at an honorable 144/4 in the distributed 20 overs, because of the significant half-hundreds of years from Matthews and Knight.

Barbados' beginning to their innings remained evaded as the side lost their opener Dottin for a joined score of simple nine in the first finished, who could score eight of five conveyances.

Following the early difficulty, Matthews and Knight went to bat for their group and set Barbados in the ordering position with a heavenly 107-run organization for the second wicket as both scored fifties.

Matthews lost herself in the eighteenth over, not long after contacting her 50 years and scored 51 off 50 conveyances, bound with four limits and a six. Knight, then again, top-scored for the side with an unbeaten 62 off 56 conveyances with the assistance of nine limits.

Other than the powerful team, no other Barbados hitter could figure out how to score into the twofold figures while 14 runs came in as additional items.

For Pakistan, Fatima Sana stowed two wickets however stayed costly, while Diana Baig struck out a player.

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