Pakistan Women defeated Ireland in the third T20.

Player of the Match Muniba Ali's century helped Pakistan Women secure a comfortable win over Ireland in the final T20 International of the series on Sunday, which the Irish team won 2-1.

Coming into this encounter, the Green Shirts were 2-0 down in the series, having won the first T20I by 11 runs on Wednesday and by four wickets on Friday.

Batting first at the Clontarf Cricket Club Ground in Dublin, the Irish side scored a respectable 155 runs at 155-4, before centuries from Muniba and Aaliya Riaz helped the Irish achieve an unbeaten 101-run partnership to ease the Irish total - with 14 balls to spare in the chase.

In the first innings, Irish all-rounder Orla Prendergast continued her good form in the series, scoring an unbeaten 64 off 46 balls.

Wicketkeeper Amy Hunter and Irish captain Gabby Lewis scored 29 and 36 respectively.

Muniba started the Pakistani chase with three back-to-back boundaries off Prendergast, the team that won the Man of the Match and Man of the Series awards earlier today.

The biggest hit of the series came from Muniba, who hit a square leg off Arlene Kelly in the fifth over of the innings.

The southpaw opener kept up the momentum, taking the Green Shirts to the 50-run mark in just 5.1 overs - she completed her half-century off just 29 balls.

The left-handed opener brought up her second century of the format with a single that took Pakistan over the line in the 18th over, reaching the milestone in just 68 balls.

She was adjudged Man of the Match for her match-winning effort with the bat.

The series follows a productive month of preparation for Pakistan, who held a 17-day skills camp and a five-day pre-tour camp at the Hanif Muhammad High Performance Centre in Karachi before arriving in Dublin on August 3.

Meanwhile, Ireland enter the series with confidence after a strong showing against Zimbabwe Women last month, where they swept both the T20I and ODI series at home.

Pakistan will play a three-match series against South Africa in Lahore from September 16-22 before participating in the 50-over ICC Women’s World Cup in September.

The World Cup is scheduled to be held in India from September 30 to November 2, but Pakistan will play its matches in Sri Lanka under a hybrid model of the global event, which sees neither India nor Pakistan visit each other’s venues due to political tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

The national team will then face New Zealand (October 18), South Africa (October 21) and co-hosts Sri Lanka (October 24) to conclude their round-robin phase.