Higher Education Commission women's cricket team explained

Higher Education Commission Women
Captain:	Diana Baig
Founded:	Unknown First recorded match: 2012
Title1:	NWCC
Title1wins:	0
Title2:	WCCT
Title2wins:	0
Title3:	DT20
Title3wins:	0

The Higher Education Commission women's cricket team is a Pakistani women's cricket team, sponsored by Pakistan's Higher Education Commission. They competed in the National Women's Cricket Championship, the Women's Cricket Challenge Trophy and the Departmental T20 Women's Championship between 2011–12 and 2018–19.^[1]

History

Higher Education Commission first played in the 2011–12 season, in the National Women's Cricket Championship. They reached the final of the competition in their first season, but lost to Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited by 181 runs.^[2] They went on to reach the final of the competition twice more, in 2015 and 2017, as well as finishing second in the final league stage in 2012–13. Each time, however, they again lost out to Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited.^{[3] [4] [5]}

They also competed in two Twenty20 competitions, the Women's Cricket Challenge Trophy between 2014 and 2016–17 and the Departmental T20 Women's Championship in 2018 and 2018–19.^[1] Each time, they finished fourth in the initial group stage of the competitions, winning just two matches across the five seasons.^{[6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}

Players

Notable players

Players who played for Higher Education Commission and played internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets):^[11]

• Sumaiya Siddiqi (2007)
• Sukhan Faiz (2009)
• Sidra Ameen (2011)
• Iram Javed (2013)
• Anam Amin (2014)
• Sidra Nawaz (2014)
• Aliya Riaz (2014)
• Diana Baig (2015)
• Ghulam Fatima (2017)
• Nashra Sandhu (2017)
• Natalia Pervaiz (2017)
• Fareeha Mehmood (2018)
• Sadia Iqbal (2019)
• Saba Nazir (2019)
• Kaynat Hafeez (2019)
• Tuba Hassan (2022)
• Gull Feroza (2022)
• Sadaf Shamas (2022)
• Umm-e-Hani (2022)

Seasons

National Women's Cricket Championship

Season	Division	League standings								Notes
		P	W	L	T	A/C	Pts	NRR	Pos
2011–12	Zone C	3	3	0	0	0	12	+2.976	1st	Lost final
2012–13	Pool A	6	4	2	0	0	0	+0.644	2nd
2015	Super League	5	4	1	0	0	8	+0.896	2nd	Lost final
2016	Pool A	4	1	3	0	0	2	–0.198	4th
2017	Departmental	3	2	1	0	0	4	–0.126	2nd	Lost final

Women's Cricket Challenge Trophy

Season	League standings								Notes
	P	W	L	T	A/C	Pts	NRR	Pos
2014	3	1	2	0	0	2	–1.816	4th
2015–16	4	1	2	0	1	3	–1.755	4th
2016–17	3	0	3	0	0	0	–2.997	4th

Departmental T20 Women's Championship

Season	League standings								Notes
	P	W	L	T	A/C	Pts	NRR	Pos
2018	6	0	6	0	0	0	–2.344	4th
2018–19	6	0	6	0	0	0	–1.957	4th

Honours

• National Women's Cricket Championship:
  • Winners (0):
  • Best finish: Runners-up (2011–12, 2012–13, 2015 & 2017)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Higher Education Commission Women . CricketArchive. 28 December 2021.
2. Web site: Higher Education Commission Women v Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited Women, 24 March 2012 . CricketArchive. 28 December 2021.
3. Web site: National Women's Cricket Championship 2012/13 . CricketArchive . 28 December 2021.
4. Web site: Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah National Women's Cricket Championship 2015 . CricketArchive . 28 December 2021.
5. Web site: Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah National Women's Cricket Championship 2017 . CricketArchive . 28 December 2021.
6. Web site: Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Women's Cricket Challenge Trophy 2014 . CricketArchive . 28 December 2021.
7. Web site: Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Women's Cricket Challenge Trophy 2015/16 . CricketArchive . 28 December 2021.
8. Web site: Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Women's Cricket Challenge Trophy 2016/17 . CricketArchive . 28 December 2021.
9. Web site: Departmental T20 Women's Championship 2018 . CricketArchive . 28 December 2021.
10. Web site: Departmental T20 Women's Championship 2018/19 . CricketArchive . 28 December 2021.
11. Web site: Players Who Have Played for Higher Education Commission Women . CricketArchive. 28 December 2021.