da stake casino： The World Order in women’s cricket is significantly different to that of themen’s game
da aposte e ganhe： Rick Eyre23-Jun-2008The World Order in women’s cricket is significantly different to that of themen’s game. It is with that in mind that we report that Pakistan are on thebrink of a crushing defeat by Ireland in their one-off women’s Test atCollege Park, Dublin.Ireland, making their first appearance on the Test arena in the women’s game,look set to wrap up their four-day match against Pakistan, who are playingtheir second-ever women’s Test, in about a day and a half.Pakistan, batting first after winning the toss, were all out for 53yesterday. Ireland, in reply, made 193 for 3 before declaring. Pakistan endedthe first day on 8 for 1, still needing another 132 runs to make Ireland batagain.Pakistan struggled against the Irish bowling, taking 47.4 overs to extracttheir 53 first innings runs. The wickets were shared for Ireland by CatherineO’Neill (4/26), Barbara McDonald (3/9) and Ciara Metcalfe (3/15).Ireland’s innings, which was in fact four balls shorter than Pakistan’s, wasdominated by Caitriona Beggs (68*) and Karen Young (58).For Ireland, the visit by the Pakistan team is their major workout before the2000 CricInfo Women’s World Cup in New Zealand at the end of this year.Ireland have appeared regularly at World Cups since 1988. Pakistan, with ashorter history of women’s cricket at international level, appeared in the1997 World Cup – a rare instance of a Pakistani sporting team playing onIndian soil – but failed to qualify for this year’s event when the number ofparticipating teams was cut back from eleven to eight.Pakistan’s development in the women’s game has been hampered byfactionalisation at the administrative level, and currently there are twoorganisations claiming to be the official governing body in Pakistan. It isthe Pakistan Women’s Cricket Control Association, who are affiliated with theIWCC, who are conducting the tour to Ireland.Pakistan have played just one women’s Test to date, away to Sri Lanka in1998. That match also being Sri Lanka’s first (and only thus far) women’sTest, the home side defeating Pakistan by 309 runs.The current match in Dublin, which resumes today at 11am local time, is thefirst women’s Test played anywhere in the world since England met India inJuly 1999.
