The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has revealed the 16-member Girls’s ODI and T20I squads for the forthcoming house collection in opposition to the West Indies. The collection, slated to begin in mid-April, marks a major encounter for each groups as they gear up for the white-ball battle on Pakistani soil.
ODIs as a part of ICC Girls’s Championship
The upcoming collection will kick off with a set of three One Day Internationals (ODIs), integral fixtures throughout the ICC Girls’s Championship 2022-25. This championship holds paramount significance as groups vie for factors to safe direct qualification for the ICC Girls’s ODI World Cup scheduled for the next yr. Following the ODIs, a collection of 5 Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) will happen, providing important preparation for the upcoming ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup.
Management and squad inclusions
Nida Dar, the seasoned all-rounder, will proceed to guide the Girls in Inexperienced in each codecs. Nevertheless, the participation of veteran cricketer Bismah Maroof in each squads is contingent upon her health. Within the ODI squad, the return of wicketkeeper-batter Sidra Nawaz is notable. Sidra, boasting vital expertise with 67 ODIs and 56 T20Is below her belt, final represented Pakistan in ODIs in opposition to South Africa in September 2023.
Likewise, the T20I squad sees the comeback of Ayesha Zafar, Gull Feroza, Rameen Shamim, and Tuba Hassan. Ayesha, with 29 ODIs and 20 T20Is, final featured in Pakistan’s T20I squad in opposition to South Africa in 2021. Feroza’s final T20I look was in opposition to Sri Lanka in 2022, whereas Shamim’s final T20I match dated again to 2019 in opposition to South Africa. Hassan, who debuted in ODIs in opposition to Australia in 2023, was final seen in T20I motion in opposition to England in the course of the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup in 2023.
Selectors’ imaginative and prescient
Chief Selector Saleem Jaffar expressed the importance of the collection in opposition to the West Indies, highlighting the pivotal position of ODIs within the ICC Girls’s Championship. He emphasised the workforce’s intention to safe most factors leveraging the house benefit, thereby strengthening their prospects for direct qualification to the upcoming ICC Girls’s ODI World Cup.
“The series against the West Indies is important for us as the ODIs are part of ICC Women’s Championship 2022-25. We are aiming to secure maximum points in the series, taking advantage of our home conditions, to enhance our chances for direct qualification for next year’s ICC Women’s ODI World Cup,” mentioned Jaffar in an official assertion.
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Pakistan Girls’s ODI squad
Nida Dar (captain), Aliya Riaz, Bismah Maroof (topic to health), Diana Baig, Fatima Sana, Muneeba Ali, Najiha Alvi (wk), Nashra Sundhu, Natalia Parvaiz, Sadaf Shamas, Sadia Iqbal, Sidra Amin, Sidra Nawaz (wk), Tuba Hassan, Umm-e-Hani and Waheeda Akhtar.
Pakistan Girls’s T20I squad
Nida Dar (captain), Aliya Riaz, Ayesha Zafar, Bismah Maroof (topic to health), Diana Baig, Fatima Sana, Gull Feroza, Muneeba Ali (wk), Najiha Alvi (wk), Nashra Sundhu, Natalia Parvaiz, Rameen Shamim, Sadia Iqbal, Sidra Amin, Tuba Hassan and Umm-e-Hani.
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This text was first revealed at WomenCricket.com, a Cricket Occasions firm.