Pakistan cricket team is currently on a tour of South Africa, where it is playing a 3-match ODI series. At the same time, the National Women’s ODI Tournament 2024-25 played in Pakistan’s domestic cricket is currently in the news. The final match of this tournament was played on 22 December between the teams of Conquerors and Stars. In this match the Stars team won by 5 wickets. But the surprising thing is that the result of this match was due to a wide ball.
Stars won the title of National Women’s ODI Tournament
In this match played between the two teams, the Conquerors team won the toss and decided to bat first. But she failed to put a big score on the board. In this match played 45-45, Conquerors team could score only 178 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in its innings. Hafsa Khalid scored the highest score of 47 runs for the Conquerors team. At the same time, Dua Majeed also contributed 40 runs. Whereas, Saira Jabeen played an inning of 32 runs. Apart from these, no batsman could touch the 30 run mark.
The Stars team, which set out to chase the target of 179 runs, did not get a good start. The team lost its first two wickets for 35 runs only. But Sidra Amin, who came to bat at number four, played a match-winning innings. He scored unbeaten 77 runs on 84 balls, which included 11 fours and 1 six. Due to this innings of Sidra Amin, the Stars team achieved this target in 43.2 overs at the loss of 5 wickets and won the title.
A wide ball made the team champion
Let us tell you, in this match, no batsman of the Stars team could score the winning run, because the last run of the match came through wides. Actually, when Stars team needed 1 run to win the match, Conquerors bowler Syed Arub Shah bowled a white ball and his team lost the match. The video of this incident is now going viral on social media.
The winning run comes off a wide as Stars clinch the National Women’s One-Day Tournament 2024-25 final
Scorecard: https://t.co/mMBPYrA459#BackOurGirls , #CONQUERORSvSTARS pic.twitter.com/tLePcDWv7o
— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) December 22, 2024
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