It's been more than 25 years since Australia first hosted Pakistan for a women's cricket match and yet, since then, the occasion has been few and far between.
In February 1997, an inexperienced group of Pakistani cricketers, desperate to qualify for the upcoming Women's World Cup, headed to New Zealand to make their international debut. After playing two ODIs against the White Ferns, they then crossed the ditch, with one more international fixture left to come on their southern hemisphere tour.
In Melbourne, they faced a legendary team captained by Belinda Clark in a standalone ODI and right from the beginning, the visitors were on the back foot, fielding just 10 players and losing the toss to a bunch of Aussies that loved to bat.
