The Pakistan Cricket Board on Sunday introduced the squad for the upcoming ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup in UAE from October 3-20 and has named 22-year-old Fatima Sana as its captain.
Fatima will exchange Nida Dar because the skipper. The 37-year-old Nida goes by means of a lean patch and the workforce underneath her suffered T20I and ODI collection defeats in England earlier than making a semi-final exit within the Ladies’s Asia Cup final month.
The selectors nevertheless have retained Nida within the squad that has a minimum of 10 gamers who appeared within the final version of the worldwide showpiece.
Bowling allrounder Fatima, who has featured in 41 ODIs and 40 T20Is, has beforehand led Pakistan rising and home sides.
She additionally captained Pakistan to a well-known ODI win in opposition to New Zealand in a Tremendous Over in Christchurch, in December 2023.
Pakistan have been clubbed with Australia, India, New Zealand and Sri Lanka in Group A.
Pakistan squad for Ladies’s T20 World Cup 2024
Fatima Sana (captain), Aliya Riaz, Diana Baig, Gull Feroza, Iram Javed, Muneeba Ali (wicket-keeper), Nashra Sundhu, Nida Dar, Omaima Sohail, Sadaf Shamas, Sadia Iqbal (topic to health), Sidra Amin, Syeda Aroob Shah, Tasmia Rubab and Tuba Hassan Touring reserve: Najiha Alvi (wicket-keeper); Non-traveling reserves: Rameen Shamim and Umm-e-Hani.