Pakistan women's cricket team in Sri Lanka in 1997–98

Pakistan women's cricket team in Sri Lanka in 1997–98
	Sri Lanka	Pakistan
Dates	11 – 17 April 1998
Captains	Rasanjali Silva	Shaiza Khan
Test series
Result	Sri Lanka won the 1-match series 1–0
Most runs	Chamani Seneviratna (148)	Kiran Baluch (84)
Most wickets	Rasanjali Silva (8)	Shaiza Khan (6)
One Day International series
Results	Sri Lanka won the 3-match series 3–0
Most runs	Vasanthi Ratnayake (103)	Asma Farzand (110)
Most wickets	Gayathri Kariyawasam (6)	Shaiza Khan (5)

The Pakistan women's national cricket team toured Sri Lanka in April 1998. They played Sri Lanka in three One Day Internationals and one Test match, losing all four matches. The Test match was the first ever played in the format by either side, and the only one that has ever been played by Sri Lanka.

Squads

Sri Lanka	Pakistan
Rasanjali Silva (c) Vanessa Bowen Thanuga Ekanayake (wk) Hiruka Fernando Rose Fernando Dedunu Gunaratne Gayathri Kariyawasam Chandrika Lakmalee Kalpana Liyanarachchi (wk) Ramani Perera Vasanthi Ratnayake Chamani Seneviratna Chaturi Thalagalage	Shaiza Khan (c) Kiran Baluch Sadia Butt Asma Farzand (wk) Shazia Hassan Mahewish Khan Muqudos Khan Sharmeen Khan Nazia Nazir Nazia Sadiq Deebah Sherazi

WODI Series

1st ODI

11 April 1998 Scorecard

Pakistan 135 (34.4 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 136/3 (25.4 overs)
Asma Farzand 30 (–) Rose Fernando 4/17 (9.4 overs)		Vasanthi Ratnayake 48 (75) Deebah Sherazi 1/12 (2 overs)

Sri Lanka Women won by 7 wickets Singhalese Sports Club Cricket Ground, Colombo Umpires: Christy Silva (SL) and Garth Cuddumbey (SA)

• Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to field.
• Mahewish Khan, Muqudos Khan (Pak), Chandrika Lakmalee and Chaturi Thalagalage (SL) all made their WODI debuts.

2nd ODI

13 April 1998 Scorecard

Pakistan 157 (49.1 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 158/6 (35.1 overs)
Nazia Sadiq 37 (90) Gayathri Kariyawasam 3/26 (11 overs)		Dedunu Gunaratne 57* (98) Shaiza Khan 4/46 (10 overs)

Sri Lanka Women won by 4 wickets Moors Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Somasiri Dissanayake (SL) and Tissa Kudahetti (SL)

• Pakistan Women won the toss and elected to bat.

3rd ODI

15 April 1998 Scorecard

Pakistan 120/6 (31 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 121/4 (26.2 overs)
Asma Farzand 60 (73) Chamani Seneviratna 2/17 (6 overs)		Vasanthi Ratnayake 47 (40) Nazia Nazir 1/10 (3 overs)

Sri Lanka Women won by 6 wickets Moors Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: BK Ramachandra (SL) and DWJ Boteju (SL)

• Pakistan Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Match reduced to 31 overs per side due to rain.

Only WTest

17 – 20 April 1998 Scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	Pakistan
305/9d (96.1 overs) Vanessa Bowen 78 (–) Sharmeen Khan 3/23 (8.1 overs)		171 (82 overs) Kiran Baluch 76 (–) Chamani Seneviratna 5/31 (24 overs)
275/8d (68 overs) Chamani Seneviratna 105* (–) Nazia Nazir 4/66 (15 overs)		100 (49.5 overs) Asma Farzand 20 (–) Rasanjali Silva 4/27 (22 overs)

Sri Lanka Women won by 309 runs Colts Cricket Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Bennet Gunawardene (SL) and PU Ariyawansa (SL)

• Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Shaiza Khan, Kiran Baluch, Sadia Butt, Asma Farzand, Shazia Hassan, Mahewish Khan, Muqudos Khan, Sharmeen Khan, Nazia Nazir, Nazia Sadiq, Deebah Sherazi (Pak), Rasanjali Silva, Vanessa Bowen, Thanuga Ekanayake, Rose Fernando, Dedunu Gunaratne, Chandrika Lakmalee, Kalpana Liyanarachchi, Ramani Perera, Vasanthi Ratnayake, Chamani Seneviratna and Chaturi Thalagalage (SL) all made their WTest debuts.

External links

• Pakistan Women tour of Sri Lanka 1997/98 from Cricinfo