We always knew that the World Cup was going to be a learning experience and if we needed a lesson in how to deliver one of the best batting performances of all time then we saw it on Thursday with Suzie Bates and Haidee Tiffen’s amazing 262-run

The West Indies have done extremely well at this tournament so far, so to record a win over them was an extremely good effort and it was an excellent all-round display from the whole team

I promised to the people of Pakistan ahead of today’s game against Sri Lanka that we would bounce back and I don’t think anybody could have expected a better performance than the one we put in today

It was a terribly disappointing day for us against India and not the start that we dreamed off when we headed to the ground this morning

It is great to be in Sydney and fantastic to have the support of my parents with me, who have both flown out from Karachi for the tournament

From the highs of qualifying for the ICC Women's World Cup and ICC World Twenty20, it has been frustrating not to continue that success

I am sure there will plenty of competition amongst players from different teams to improve their own ranking and I am sure it will occasionally get mentioned in the dressing room as well, but I think a bit of good-natured rivalry will be beneficial

The tournament has given us a good idea of who the best Twenty20 players are in the country and I am sure that will influence the thinking of the selectors when they meet to decide who will be in our training camp squads ahead of the series against

Judging by some of the comments on the blog, plenty of people think I have some work to do on my game, so they will be pleased to know I now have my own coach to really help me develop my batting

If anybody knows somebody looking for an international skipper, good batsman, lively fielder and spin bowler for their club team in England let me know

Four matches, four defeats is not exactly how I imagined our Asia Cup campaign would begin

Hopefully events like that, along with the Women’s Asia Cup and the ICC Women’s World Cup, will help to continue build the women's profile and attract more sponsorship to the sport as this is something that is needed to grow the game

I may have had to give up the stumps, but I am so proud of the fact that nobody will ever be able to take away from me the fact I have led my country to qualification to the Women’s World Cup

They are really great girls, who are trying their very best at the event, and it is a massive thing for them to even be playing here considering many of them only took up the game in the last couple of years