PCB announces Women’s Cricket Season for 2022-23

This season the national women’s cricket team will play 8 international series under the leadership of Bismillah Maroof. These international series include ICC Women’s Championship, ICC Women’s Twenty20 World Cup, Commonwealth Games, Asian Games and ACC Women’s Twenty20 Asia. Cups are also included. The Sri Lankan women’s cricket team will arrive in Pakistan in May to play three ODIs. This will be the first time that Pakistan will host a match of the ICC Women’s Championship. The tour of the visiting team includes 3 Twenty20 International matches.

The national women’s cricket team will leave for China in September, where it will participate in the Asian Games. Then in October-November the Irish women’s cricket team will visit Pakistan. Meanwhile, the visiting team will play 3 ODIs and 3 T20 International matches.

Similarly, women’s cricket competitions will also be held at the domestic level during the season 2022-23. The first event of the season, the National Under-19 Women’s Tournament will be played in Muridke in August, where teams from 6 cricket associations will participate. Cricketers who have excelled in the tournament will also be given the opportunity to represent the senior teams later in the Women’s Cricket Season 2022-23.

The National Women’s Twenty20 Championship will be played in September. This event is divided into 2 stages. In the first phase, 4 teams from 6 cricket associations will participate. The best performing players here will be divided into three new teams along with women cricketers representing the country at the international level. Then the winner of the T20 championship between these 3 teams will be declared the champion.

The third and final Women’s Domestic Event, the ODI Tournament, will be played in April. A total of 14 matches will be played in this four-team tournament.

No-trust resolution to be decided by March 31: Sheikh Rashid

Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Monday insisted that the fate of the opposition’s no-confidence resolution against Prime Minister Imran Khan would be decided by March 31.

Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Rashid said the situation on the day of voting on the no-confidence resolution could change even an hour before the vote, pointing that it was the opposition, and not the government, that needed to show the strength of 172 lawmakers.

Talking about national institutions, the minister said he sees Pakistan Army as a symbol of Pakistan’s integrity. “They keep an eye on politics as a whole and not any individual … whatever they decide will be in favour of Pakistan,” he said