Pakistan won the throw on Thursday and chose to hit Bangladesh first in their in the third game of the ICC Ladies Cricket World Cup 2025 in the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The two parties have arrived 16 times face-to-face in the ODIs of women, with their head-to-head record balanced in eight victories each.
XIS play
Pakistan: Muneeba Ali, Omaima Sohail, Sidra Amin, Aliya Riaz, Natalia Parvaiz, Fatima Sana (C), Sidra Nawaz (World Championship), Rameen Shamim, Nashra Sundhu, Diana Baig and Sadia Iqbal.
Bangladesh: Farqana Hoque, Rubya Haider, Sharmin Akhter, Nigar Sultana (Capt, World Championship), Sobhana Mostary, Shorna Akter, Fahima Khatun, Nahida Akr, Rabeya Khan, Marufa Akr and Nishita Akter.
In the structure of the World Cup World Cup 2025, Pakistan organized South Africa for a series of three games, with a 2-1 defeat.
It followed their perfect world cup qualification campaign, in which they won all five games and sealed the qualification.
Bangladesh was last in the format in the qualifying match, where they finished second after the hosts.
The last meeting between the two games also came during the same tournament, where the home team came as a victor with seven wickets.
Pakistan: W, l, l, w, w (most recent first)
Bangladesh: L, l, w, w, w
