Lahore women's cricket team
Pakistani women's cricket team
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The Lahore women's cricket team is the women's representative cricket team for Lahore in domestic cricket in Pakistan. They competed in the National Women's Cricket Championship between 2004–05 and 2017, winning the tournament twice.[1]
History
Lahore joined the National Women's Cricket Championship for its inaugural season in 2004–05, and competed in every subsequent edition until the tournament ended in 2017.[1] The side reached the final of the competition in its inaugural season, but lost to Karachi.[2] The following season, however, they won the competition for the first time, beating Karachi in the final by 40 runs.[3][4] They then became finalists in three of the next four seasons, twice against Karachi and once against Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited.[5][6][7]
Lahore won the National Women's Cricket Championship for the second time in 2014, beating Karachi by 18 runs, helped by 84* from captain Bismah Maroof.[8][9] In the final season of the competition, 2017, Lahore finished as runners-up in the Super League section of the tournament.[10]
Players
Notable players
The players who played for Lahore and for Pakistan internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets):[11]
Sharmeen Khan (1997)- Nazia Sadiq (1997)
- Maryam Butt (2003)
- Sabahat Rasheed (2005)
- Sana Javed (2005)
- Tasqeen Qadeer (2005)
- Shumaila Mushtaq (2005)
- Bismah Maroof (2006)
- Marina Iqbal (2009)
- Sidra Ameen (2011)
- Elizebath Khan (2012)
- Iram Javed (2013)
- Anam Amin (2014)
- Sidra Nawaz (2014)
- Aliya Riaz (2014)
- Fareeha Mehmood (2018)
- Kaynat Hafeez (2019)
- Tuba Hassan (2022)
- Sadaf Shamas (2022)
- Waheeda Akhtar (2023)
Seasons
National Women's Cricket Championship
| Season | Division | League standings[1] | Notes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | W | L | T | A/C | Pts | NRR | Pos | |||
| 2004–05 | Super League | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +2.784 | 1st | Lost final |
| 2005–06 | Lahore Zone | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +4.021 | 1st | Champions |
| 2006–07 | Group A | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +1.547 | 1st | Lost final |
| 2007–08 | Group C | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +2.399 | 1st | Lost final |
| 2009–10 | Zone C | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +2.521 | 2nd | |
| 2010–11 | Zone B | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | +2.167 | 1st | Lost final |
| 2011–12 | Zone A | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | +1.651 | 1st | 3rd in Final Stage |
| 2012–13 | Pool A | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +0.087 | 4th | |
| 2014 | Pool B | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | +3.347 | 1st | Champions |
| 2015 | Pool C | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.992 | 2nd | |
| 2016 | Pool C | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | –1.276 | 3rd | |
| 2017 | Super League | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | +0.113 | 2nd | |
Honours
- National Women's Cricket Championship:
- Winners (2): 2005–06 & 2014