The race for the semi-finals in the Women's Asia Cup 2024 has intensified. The 9th match of the tournament was played between the teams of Pakistan and UAE. In this match, the Pakistan team achieved a historic victory. This match was played at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium in Dambulla. The Pakistan team did such a feat in this match which no team could do before this tournament.

Historical victory for Pakistan

Pakistan's women's team defeated UAE by 10 wickets in this match. The special thing is that this is the first time in the history of Women's T20 Asia Cup that a team has won a match by a margin of 10 wickets. Let us tell you, Women's Asia Cup is being played since 2004. Women's T20 Asia Cup started in 2012, but before this no team had been able to win a match by 10 wickets. This is Pakistan's second victory in this tournament and it has now reached close to the semi-finals.

Gul Firoza-Muniba Ali's century partnership

Pakistan won the toss and decided to bowl first, which proved to be correct. UAE could only score 103 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. During this, Tirth Satish scored the highest 40 runs and 8 batsmen could not even touch the 8-run mark. Sadia Iqbal, Nashra Sandhu and Tuba Hasan took the maximum 2-2 wickets from Pakistan.

On the other hand, Pakistan achieved the target of 104 runs in 14.1 overs without losing any wicket. Openers Gul Feroza and Muniba Ali played a century innings. Gul Feroza scored an unbeaten 66 runs off 55 balls, during which she hit 8 fours. At the same time, Muniba Ali played an unbeaten innings of 37 runs off 30 balls. In this innings, 4 fours came off Muniba's bat. Let us tell you, Pakistan's matches in the group stage are over. In such a situation, if Team India defeats Nepal in its next match, then the teams of India and Pakistan will qualify for the semi-finals.