LA­HORE – The West In­dies Women are in se­ri­ous jeop­ardy of miss­ing the 2025 ICC Women’s World Cup af­ter slump­ing to their sec­ond de­feat in three match­es, go­ing down by 65 runs to Pak­istan Women in their World Cup Qual­i­fi­er match in Pak­istan on Mon­day.

West In­dies Women did well to re­strict the home side to 191 in 49.5 overs, af­ter Pak­istan Women won the toss and chose to bat at the Gaddafi Sta­di­um.

How­ev­er, they nev­er re­cov­ered from los­ing cap­tain and star play­er Hay­ley Matthews to the first ball of their run chase and were even­tu­al­ly bowled out for 126 in 39.2 overs.

With on­ly the top two teams qual­i­fy­ing for the World Cup to be played in In­dia in Sep­tem­ber, the re­sult left them in fourth po­si­tion on two points in the six team stand­ings, with two match­es against Bangladesh and Thai­land re­main­ing.

Pak­istan is cur­rent­ly in first po­si­tion on six points af­ter three vic­to­ries, while Bangladesh and Scot­land are sec­ond and third re­spec­tive­ly on four points, with the for­mer hav­ing played two match­es.

Need­ing a win to boost their chances of qual­i­fy­ing af­ter their open­ing loss to Scot­land, West In­dies Women start­ed bright­ly, with Matthews dis­miss­ing Gull Fer­oza ear­ly on to leave Pak­istan six for one.

Open­er Munee­ba Ali (33), Sidra Amin (54) and Aliya Riyaz (20) con­sol­i­dat­ed their team’s po­si­tion, al­beit at a slow rate, to see them progress to 132 for three in the 37th over.

Amin, who was named Play­er-of-the-Match, was the back­bone of the in­nings, with her knock com­ing off 94 balls and con­tain­ing four bound­aries.

How­ev­er, Pak­istan lost their way af­ter spin­ner Afy Fletch­er dis­missed Omaima So­hail, los­ing their last sev­en wick­ets for 59 runs.

Matthews was the Windies’ best bowler with 2-30, while Fletch­er (2-39) and Kar­ish­ma Ramharack (2-55) al­so tak­ing two wick­ets.

West In­dies Women then suf­fered a night­mare start when trapped Matthews lbw with the very first ball of the in­nings.

It was a po­si­tion they would not re­cov­er from, with need­less run outs ac­count­ing for the wick­ets of She­maine Camp­belle and Zai­da James soon af­ter to leave the Windies Women 29 for three.

Jan­nil­lea Glas­gow (18), Chinelle Hen­ry (14), Stafanie Tay­lor (17) and Shabi­ka Gajn­abi (21), all got starts but failed to car­ry on as West In­dies Women slumped to 97 for sev­en in the face of dis­ci­plined bowl­ing by Sana.

Aaliyah Al­leyne, who top­scored with 22, tried her best to re­vive the in­nings, but it was not to be as Rameen Shamim and Nashra San­du each grabbed two wick­ets to bring the con­test to an end.

Sana end­ed with fig­ures of 3-16, while Shamim took 2-26 and Sand­hu 2-31.

West In­dies Women will next play Bangladesh on Thurs­day.

CMC

Sum­marised scores

PAK­ISTAN WOMEN 191 in 49.5 overs (Sidra Amin 54, Munee­ba Ali 33, Sidra Nawaz 23, Aliya Ri­az 20, Omaima So­hail 16, Fa­ti­ma Sana 15; Hay­ley Matthews 2-30, Afy Fletch­er 2-39, Kar­ish­ma Ramharack 2-55).

WEST IN­DIES WOMEN 126 in 39.2 overs (Aaliyah Al­leyne 22, Shabi­ka Gajn­abi 21, Jan­nil­lea Glas­gow 18, Stafanie Tay­lor 17, Chinelle Hen­ry 14, She­maine Camp­belle 14; Fa­ti­ma Sana 3-16, Rameen Shamim 2-26, Nashra Sand­hu 2-31).

Pak­istan Women won by 65 runs.