The Islamabad women's cricket team is the women's representative

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team for

Islamabad Islamabad (; ur, , ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's ninth-most populous city, with a population of over 1.2 million people, and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital T ...

. They competed in the

National Women's Cricket Championship The National Women's Cricket Championship, officially the Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah National Women's Cricket Championship, was a women's domestic Limited overs cricket, one-day cricket competition that took place in Pakistan between 2004–05 and 2 ...

between 2005–06 and 2017.

History

Islamabad joined the

for its second season in 2005–06, winning one of their two matches in the Rawalpindi Zone. The following season, 2006–07, the side qualified for the final stage of the competition after they won Group C, but lost both of their matches to finish third overall. The side competed in every subsequent edition of the National Women's Cricket Championship until it ended in 2017, with high points including winning Pool B in 2012–13, beating

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in the final, and qualifying for the final Super League stage in 2016, finishing 4th overall.

Players

Notable players

Players who played for Islamabad and played internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets): *

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(2000) * Naila Nazir (2009) *

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(2015)

Seasons

National Women's Cricket Championship

Honours

: ** Winners (0): ** ''Best finish:'' 3rd (2006–07)

References

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