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.
History Karachi joined the National Women's Cricket Championship for its inaugural season in 2004–05 and won the tournament. They competed in every edition of the championship until 2017, when the tournament was replaced by the PCB Triangular One Day Women's Tournament. 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. 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.
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.
Players Notable players Players who played for Karachi and played internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets):
Kiran Baluch (1997) Shaiza Khan (1997) Khursheed Jabeen (2000) Batool Fatima (2001) Urooj Mumtaz (2004) Armaan Khan (2005) Sana Mir (2005) Humera Masroor (2006) Nain Abidi (2006) Javeria Khan (2008) Sania Khan (2009) Rabiya Shah (2010) Kanwal Naz (2010) Shumaila Qureshi (2010) Kainat Imtiaz (2010) Masooma Junaid (2011) Javeria Rauf (2012) Maham Tariq (2014) Ayesha Zafar (2015) Muneeba Ali (2016) Aiman Anwer (2016) Omaima Sohail (2018) Fatima Sana (2019) Rameen Shamim (2019) Syeda Aroob Shah (2019)
Seasons National Women's Cricket Championship Season Division League standings Notes P W L T A/C Pts NRR Pos 2004–05 Super League 3 2 1 0 0 8 +1.916 2nd Champions 2005–06 Karachi Zone 2 2 0 0 0 8 +4.462 1st Lost final 2006–07 Group B 3 3 0 0 0 12 +5.157 1st Champions 2007–08 Group C 3 3 0 0 0 12 +3.158 1st Champions 2009–10 Zone B 4 4 0 0 0 16 +3.010 1st Lost final 2010–11 Zone B 3 2 1 0 0 8 +1.340 2nd 2011–12 Zone C 3 2 1 0 0 8 +1.382 2nd 2012–13 Pool A 6 4 2 0 0 8 +0.388 3rd 2014 Pool A 3 3 0 0 0 6 +3.740 1st Lost final 2015 Pool B 3 1 2 0 0 2 –2.244 3rd 2016 Pool B 3 0 2 0 1 1 –3.824 4th 2017 Super League 4 3 0 0 1 7 +2.053 1st Champions
Honours National Women's Cricket Championship: Winners (4): 2004–05, 2006–07, 2007–08 & 2017
See also List of Karachi first-class cricket teams
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