The Higher Education Commission women's cricket team is a Pakistani women's cricket team, sponsored by the Higher Education Commission, who play domestic cricket in Pakistan. They competed in the National Women's Cricket Championship, the Women's Cricket Challenge Trophy and the Departmental T20 Women's Championship between 2011–12 and 2018–19.
History Higher Education Commission first played in the 2011–12 season, in the National Women's Cricket Championship. They reached the final of this one-day cricket competition in their first season, but lost to Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited by 181 runs. They went on to reach the final of the competition twice more, in 2015 and 2017, as well as finishing second in the final league stage in 2012–13. Each time, however, they again lost out to Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited.
They also competed in two Twenty20 competitions, the Women's Cricket Challenge Trophy between 2014 and 2016–17 and the Departmental T20 Women's Championship in 2018 and 2018–19. Each time, they finished fourth in the initial group stage of the competitions, winning just two matches across the five seasons.
Players Notable players The players who have played for the Higher Education Commission and also for Pakistan internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets):
Sumaiya Siddiqi (2007) Sukhan Faiz (2009) Sidra Ameen (2011) Iram Javed (2013) Anam Amin (2014) Sidra Nawaz (2014) Aliya Riaz (2014) Diana Baig (2015) Ghulam Fatima (2017) Nashra Sandhu (2017) Natalia Pervaiz (2017) Fareeha Mehmood (2018) Sadia Iqbal (2019) Saba Nazir (2019) Kaynat Hafeez (2019) Tuba Hassan (2022) Gull Feroza (2022) Sadaf Shamas (2022) Umm-e-Hani (2022)
Seasons National Women's Cricket Championship Season Division League standings Notes P W L T A/C Pts NRR Pos 2011–12 Zone C 3 3 0 0 0 12 +2.976 1st Lost final 2012–13 Pool A 6 4 2 0 0 0 +0.644 2nd 2015 Super League 5 4 1 0 0 8 +0.896 2nd Lost final 2016 Pool A 4 1 3 0 0 2 –0.198 4th 2017 Departmental 3 2 1 0 0 4 –0.126 2nd Lost final
Women's Cricket Challenge Trophy Season League standings Notes P W L T A/C Pts NRR Pos 2014 3 1 2 0 0 2 –1.816 4th 2015–16 4 1 2 0 1 3 –1.755 4th 2016–17 3 0 3 0 0 0 –2.997 4th
Departmental T20 Women's Championship Season League standings Notes P W L T A/C Pts NRR Pos 2018 6 0 6 0 0 0 –2.344 4th 2018–19 6 0 6 0 0 0 –1.957 4th
Honours National Women's Cricket Championship: Winners (0): Best finish: Runners-up (2011–12, 2012–13, 2015 & 2017)
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