PCB proclaims Pakistan Ladies’s ODI and T20I squads for the house white-ball collection towards West Indies

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The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has printed the 16-member Ladies’s ODI and T20I squads for the imminent house collection towards the West Indies. The collection, slated to begin in mid-April, marks a vital come across for each groups as they equipment up for the white-ball combat on Pakistani soil.

ODIs as a part of ICC Ladies’s Championship

The impending collection will kick off with a suite of 3 One Day Internationals (ODIs), integral fixtures throughout the ICC Ladies’s Championship 2022-25. This championship holds paramount significance as groups vie for issues to safe direct qualification for the ICC Ladies’s ODI International Cup scheduled for the next 12 months. Following the ODIs, a chain of 5 Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) will happen, providing important preparation for the approaching ICC Ladies’s T20 International Cup.

Management and squad inclusions

Nida Dar, the seasoned all-rounder, will proceed to guide the Ladies in Inexperienced in each codecs. On the other hand, the participation of veteran cricketer Bismah Maroof in each squads is contingent upon her health. Within the ODI squad, the go back of wicketkeeper-batter Sidra Nawaz is notable. Sidra, boasting important enjoy with 67 ODIs and 56 T20Is beneath her belt, remaining represented Pakistan in ODIs towards 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, remaining featured in Pakistan’s T20I squad towards South Africa in 2021. Feroza’s remaining T20I look used to be towards Sri Lanka in 2022, whilst Shamim’s remaining T20I tournament dated again to 2019 towards South Africa. Hassan, who debuted in ODIs towards Australia in 2023, used to be remaining noticed in T20I motion towards England all the way through the ICC Ladies’s T20 International Cup in 2023.

Selectors’ imaginative and prescient

Leader Selector Saleem Jaffar expressed the importance of the collection towards the West Indies, highlighting the pivotal function of ODIs within the ICC Ladies’s Championship. He emphasised the group’s intention to safe most issues leveraging the house benefit, thereby strengthening their possibilities for direct qualification to the approaching ICC Ladies’s ODI International Cup.

“The collection towards the West Indies is essential for us because the ODIs are a part of ICC Ladies’s Championship 2022-25. We’re aiming to safe most issues within the collection, benefiting from our house prerequisites, to strengthen our probabilities for direct qualification for subsequent 12 months’s ICC Ladies’s ODI International Cup,” stated Jaffar in an reputable remark.

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Pakistan Ladies’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 Ladies’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.