Karachi women's cricket team
{{short description|Pakistani women's cricket team}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}
{{Infobox cricket team
| name = Karachi Women
| image =
| captain = Rida Hussain
| founded = Unknown{{Clear}}First recorded match: 2005
| dissolved =
| ground =
| title1 = NWCC
| title1wins = 4
}}
The Karachi women's cricket team is the women's representative cricket team for Karachi, Pakistan. They competed in the National Women's Cricket Championship between 2004–05 and 2017, winning the competition four times.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Teams/1/1818/1818.html|title=Karachi Women |publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=29 December 2021}}
History
Karachi joined the National Women's Cricket Championship for its inaugural season in 2004–05, and competed in it in every subsequent season until 2017, when the tournament was replaced by the PCB Triangular One Day Women's Tournament.{{cite web |title=PCB Triangular One Day Women's Tournament 2017/18 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/30/PCB_Triangular_One_Day_Womens_Tournament_2017-18.html |access-date=22 March 2025 |publisher=CricketArchive}} The side won the competition four times: firstly, in its inaugural season, Karachi topped the initial group stage and the subsequent Final Stage, before beating Lahore in the final to win the tournament.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/4/National_Womens_Cricket_Championship_2004-05.html |title=National Women's Cricket Championship 2004/05 |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=29 December 2021}} After losing the 2005–06 final to Lahore, they then won the tournament two seasons in a row, in 2006–07 and 2007–08, both times beating Lahore in the final.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/4/National_Womens_Cricket_Championship_2005-06.html |title=National Women's Cricket Championship 2005/06 |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=29 December 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/6/National_Womens_Cricket_Championship_2006-07.html |title=National Women's Cricket Championship 2005/06 |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=29 December 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/8/National_Womens_Cricket_Championship_2007-08.html |title=National Women's Cricket Championship 2007/08 |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=29 December 2021}}
Karachi lost in the final of the competition again in 2009–10 and 2014, before finally winning their fourth title in the final season of the National Women's Cricket Championship, 2017, topping the Super League section of the tournament with three wins and one abandonment from their four matches.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/13/National_Womens_Cricket_Championship_2009-10.html |title=National Women's Cricket Championship 2009/10 |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=29 December 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/22/Mohtarma_Fatima_Jinnah_National_Womens_Cricket_Championship_2014.html |title=Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah National Women's Cricket Championship 2014 |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=29 December 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/30/Mohtarma_Fatima_Jinnah_National_Womens_Cricket_Championship_2017.html |title=Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah National Women's Cricket Championship 2017 |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=29 December 2021}}
Players
=Notable players=
Players who played for Karachi and played internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets):{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Teams/1/1818/Players.html|title=Players Who Have Played for Karachi Women |publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=29 December 2021}}
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- {{flagicon|PAK}} Kiran Baluch (1997)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Shaiza Khan (1997)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Khursheed Jabeen (2000)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Batool Fatima (2001)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Urooj Mumtaz (2004)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Armaan Khan (2005)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Sana Mir (2005)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Humera Masroor (2006)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Nain Abidi (2006)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Javeria Khan (2008)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Sania Khan (2009)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Rabiya Shah (2010)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Kanwal Naz (2010)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Shumaila Qureshi (2010)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Kainat Imtiaz (2010)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Masooma Junaid (2011)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Javeria Rauf (2012)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Maham Tariq (2014)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Ayesha Zafar (2015)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Muneeba Ali (2016)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Aiman Anwer (2016)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Omaima Sohail (2018)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Fatima Sana (2019)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Rameen Shamim (2019)
- {{flagicon|PAK}} Syeda Aroob Shah (2019)
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Seasons
=National Women's Cricket Championship=
Honours
- National Women's Cricket Championship:
- Winners (4): 2004–05, 2006–07, 2007–08 & 2017
See also
References
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{{Domestic Women's Cricket in Pakistan}}
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