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Leg-spinner Alana King has taken three wickets in four balls in Australia's washed out T20 women's cricket match against Pakistan in Northern Ireland.

Rain has spoilt Alana King's annihilation of the Pakistan batting order as Australia continued their Commonwealth Games warm-up in their T20 clash in Northern Ireland.

Only eight overs in the Tri-Series opener were completed with the match in Derry washed out with the Australians delivering a mixed bag from their bowling spell.

Pakistan collapsed to 6-56, however 28 of those runs came from extras.

Leg-spinner King, who was thrown the ball by captain Meg Lanning in the seventh over, ran riot, snaring three wickets in her single over, with her hat-trick denied by a wide that separated her first and second scalps.

King finished with figured of 3-8, all via LBW, while Megan Schutt collected one wicket against six runs and Ashleigh Gardner 2-11.

"I'm happy to have the ball in my hand in any situation to be honest so it was good to roll a few out," said the 26-year-old King.

"We figured out that anything full was easy to play so we just needed to bring our length back a little bit and make sure that we bring the stumps into play."

Australia will be looking to improve with the ball in their second clash against hosts Ireland.