Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), on Wednesday, introduced their 15-member squad for the upcoming Girls’s T20 International Cup 2023, scheduled to be held in South Africa from February 10 to February 26.

The apex cricket board has named the ODI squad for the Australia excursion, beginning January 16 in Brisbane. Additional, the excursion down beneath may even witness a three-match T20I leg, for which the similar squad has been picked as was once for the T20I International Cup.

Veteran seamer Diana Baig has made her comeback after lacking out in the house sequence towards Eire in October-November because of a shoulder damage. Her final look got here all the way through the gang degree tournament towards Thailand on the Asia Cup 2022. Common skipper Bismah Maroof will proceed to steer the staff in each assignments.

Pakistan will play 3 ODIs towards Australia, which is a part of the ICC Girls’s Cricket Championship 2022-25 cycle, adopted through 3 T20Is. Then, within the world showpiece match, Pakistan are positioned in Team 2 along England, India, Eire and West Indies. The Girls in Inexperienced will get started their marketing campaign towards arch-rivals India on February 12 at Newlands in Cape The town.

“The go back of Diana Baig, Sadia Iqbal and Tuba Hassan will toughen the facet and can make stronger our bowling assault, which has the aptitude to do smartly. Sidra Nawaz has been added as our 2nd wicket-keeper within the squad to present Muneeba Ali some house to precise herself extra with the bat, and offers an added technique to the captain to utilise the products and services of a 2nd wicket-keeper at the lengthy excursion,” mentioned leader selector Asmavia Iqbal in an reputable remark.

Pakistan ODI squad for the Australia sequence:

Bismah Maroof (c), Aliya Riaz, Ayesha Naseem, Diana Baig, Fatima Sana, Ghulam Fatima, Kainat Imtiaz, Muneeba Ali (wk), Nashra Sandhu, Nida Dar, Omaima Sohail, Sadaf Shamas, Sadia Iqbal, Sidra Amin and Sidra Nawaz (wk)

Travelling Reserves: Aimen Anwar, Javeria Khan and Tuba Hassan

Pakistan T20I squad for Australia and Girls’s T20 International Cup 2023:

Bismah Maroof (c), Aimen Anwar, Aliya Riaz, Ayesha Naseem, Diana Baig, Fatima Sana, Javeria Khan, Muneeba Ali (wk), Nashra Sandhu, Nida Dar, Omaima Sohail, Sadia Iqbal, Sidra Amin, Sidra Nawaz (wk) and Tuba Hassan.

Reserves: Ghulam Fatima, Kainat Imtiaz and Sadaf Shamas