The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has on Monday, August 25, introduced a daring and refreshing squad for the upcoming ICC Girls’s World Cup 2025, which is about to run from September 30 to November 2 in India and Sri Lanka. They surprised the cricket world by deciding on seven gamers who’re set to play their maiden ICC Girls’s World Cup.
The most important speaking level is the choice of 20-year-old Eyman Fatima, who’s but to make her ODI debut. Eyman Fatima was named within the squad on the again of her beautiful performances in Pakistan’s home T20 circuit and T20I collection in opposition to Eire earlier this month.
Seven debutants named in Pakistan’s ICC Girls’s World Cup 2025
Other than Fatima, Natalia Parvaiz, Rameen Shamim, Sadaf Shamas, Sadia Iqbal, Shawaal Zulfiqar, and Syeda Aroob Shah are the remainder of the six gamers who’ve been handed maiden ODI World Cup call-ups. Their inclusion was one of many boldest overhauls in Pakistan’s current cricket historical past.
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Star all-rounder Fatima Sana is all set to captain the 15-member squad, whereas the wicketkeeper-batter Muneeba Ali will function the vice-captain within the upcoming ICC Girls’s World Cup 2025. In the meantime, Diana Baig, Aliya Riaz, Sidra Amin, and Omaima Sohail add steadiness and expertise to the younger aspect for the mega occasion subsequent month.
Moreover, Pakistan has included 5 travelling reserves—Gull Feroza, Najiha Alvi, Tuba Hassan, Umm-e-Hani, and Waheeda Akhtar—for the event. Apparently, Feroza and Alvi, who had been a part of the ICC Girls’s World Cup Qualifier earlier this 12 months, have now been named within the standby record.
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The PCB stated in an official media launch: “The 15 gamers alongside 5 reserve gamers will participate in a 14-day pre-South Africa collection camp from Friday, 29 August. The gamers beneath the teaching workers led by Muhammad Wasim will endure observe classes in addition to 50-over observe matches. Extra particulars concerning the camp shall be introduced sooner or later. South Africa’s ladies’s cricket crew will arrive in Lahore on 12 September.”
Earlier than leaving for Sri Lanka, Pakistan is all set to face South Africa in a three-match ODI collection in Lahore from September 16 to September 22. And the identical squad introduced for the mega occasion will tackle the Proteas aspect within the upcoming ODI collection.
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Pakistan squad for ICC Girls’s World Cup 2025:
Fatima Sana (C), Muneeba Ali Siddiqui (VC), Sidra Nawaz (WK), Aliya Riaz, Diana Baig, Eyman Fatima, Nashra Sundhu, Natalia Parvaiz, Omaima Sohail, Rameen Shamim, Sidra Amin, Sadaf Shamas, Sadia Iqbal, Shawaal Zulfiqar, and Syeda Aroob Shah.
Travelling Reserves: Gull Feroza, Najiha Alvi, Tuba Hassan, Umm-e-Hani, Waheeda Akhtar.
Schedule for the Pakistan vs South Africa ODI collection:
16 September: First ODI at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
19 September: Second ODI at Gaddafi Stadiu,m Lahore
22 September: Third ODI at Gaddafi Stadi,um Lahore
Pakistan’s schedule on the ODI World Cup within the group stage:
2 October: Pakistan vs Bangladesh at R Premadasa Cricket Stadium in Colombo
5 October: Pakistan vs India at R Premadasa Cricket Stadium in Colombo
8 October: Pakistan vs Australia at R Premadasa Cricket Stadium in Colombo
15 October: Pakistan vs England at R Premadasa Cricket Stadium in Colombo
18 October: Pakistan vs New Zealand at R Premadasa Cricket Stadium in Colombo
21 October: Pakistan vs South Africa at R Premadasa Cricket Stadium in Colombo
24 October: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka at R Premadasa Cricket Stadium in Colombo
