In a bid to prepare for the upcoming ICC Women's T-20 World Cup in Australia, a three-team T20 tournament will be held at Karachi's National Stadium from Thursday.

The National Triangular T20 Women's Cricket Championship is an eight-day-long tournament, in which PCB Blasters, PCB Challengers and PCB Dynamites will come face to face for national glory.

The final, to be played on 16th January, will be played under floodlights. To maximise the reach of the women's game, the contest will be live-streamed on the PCB's YouTube channel.

To provide opportunities to fans to watch the action up-close and promote the game amongst girls, Hanif Mohammad and Javed Miandad enclosures will be opened throughout the tournament with free entry for spectators. The winning team will get Rs 500,000, while the runners-up will get Rs. 250,000. The best performer of the tournament, the player of the championship, will be awarded Rs 25,000 each and the player of the match, for every game, will get Rs. 10,000.

Urooj Mumtaz, the chair of the national women's selection committee, said: "The upcoming T20 tournament provides a great opportunity to the players to prepare for the ICC Women's T20 World Cup. This is also an opportunity for all the participating players to leave a mark and put forward their case for the selection. The decision to play the final of the tournament under lights is taken to emulate the conditions in the T20 World Cup as Pakistan will be playing two of their four group matches under floodlights." She said, "The profile of women's cricket has grown over the past few years and the decision to live-stream the final is going to attract more fans towards the game."

Schedule:

9th Jan: PCB Blasters v PCB Dynamites

10th Jan: PCB Blasters v PCB Challengers

11th Jan: PCB Dynamites v PCB Challengers

12th Jan: PCB Dynamites v PCB Blasters

13th Jan: PCB Challengers v PCB Blasters

14th Jan: PCB Challengers v PCB Dynamites

16th Jan: Final.