LAHORE: Fatima Sana will lead Pakistan within the upcoming ACC Rising Ladies’s T20 Asia Cup that can be performed in Hong Kong subsequent month. The nationwide ladies’s choice committee has introduced 14-player squad, which incorporates 4 gamers who featured within the inaugural ICC U19 Ladies’s T20 World Cup earlier within the 12 months, for the eight-team match that can be performed from June 12 until 21. The squad has been put collectively after observing performances within the T20 part of the Pakistan Cup Ladies’s Cricket Match and rising camp in Multan in March. Fatima has performed 31 One-Day Internationals and 24 T20 Internationals and the choice to call her captain for the match has been made after she captained Strikers, primarily based on probables for this squad, to wins in all three matches within the above-mentioned match and led Blasters’ profitable T20 Championship marketing campaign in Lahore in December.
Pakistan are slotted in Group A with Hong Kong, India A and Thailand A. Pakistan will open their marketing campaign on 13 June with the match towards Thailand A, after which they play Hong Kong and India A on 15 and 17 June, respectively. Prime two groups from every group will qualify for the semi-finals which can be performed on 19 June. The ultimate of the match can be held on 21 June. The nationwide ladies’s choice committee consists of Asmavia Iqbal, Marina Iqbal and Mohtashim Rashid with Saleem Jaffar as chief selector.
Chief selector Saleem Jaffar mentioned on Wednesday: “I need to congratulate all gamers who’ve been chosen for the rising Asia Cup and I’m hopeful that they may carry out to their full potential. We’ve got some excellent expertise arising and it was a tricky name to pick 14 gamers. I need to inform these cricketers who haven’t been chosen for this match to maintain their heads excessive and preserve working exhausting and they’re going to positively get possibilities within the upcoming occasions. We’ve got been observing these gamers because the camp in Multan and we have now examined them in numerous circumstances, with their most up-to-date problem being the three T20 matches towards our high worldwide gamers.”
Fatima Sana mentioned in an announcement: “It’s an honour for me to captain Pakistan within the upcoming match. The accountability of main the rising aspect will certainly assist me develop as a cricketer and I’m eagerly trying ahead to main my group on this vital match. These gamers are filled with vitality and are excited for the chance forward of them. We’ve got had good apply over the previous couple of weeks, and the Pakistan Cup Ladies’s Cricket Match supplied us ample match apply towards powerful sides.” The rising group’s pre-tournament camp will start on Thursday (in the present day) on the Hanif Mohammad Excessive Efficiency and can run till June 8. They may depart for Hong Kong on 9 June.
Squad:
Fatima Sana (c), Anoosha Nasir, Eyman Fatima, Gull Feroza, Gulrukh, Lubna Behram, Najiha Alvi (wk), Natalia Parvaiz, Sadaf Shamas, Shawaal Zulfiqar, Syeda Aroob Shah, Tuba Hassan, Umm-e-Hani and Yusra Amir. Reserves: Amber Kainat, Dua Majid, Fatima Khan and Rameen Shamim.
Participant help personnel: Aisha Jalil (supervisor), Mohsin Kamal (head coach), Muhammad Kamran Hussain (assistant coach), Muhammad Usman Shahid (analyst) and Rabia Siddiq (physiotherapist).