Nida Dar to lead Pakistan in upcoming Bangladesh tour

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has announced its 15-member national women’s squad on Thursday for the Bangladesh Tour, which will be led by Nida Dar.

National selection committee chief Saleem Jaffar announced the decision saying, Pakistan’s squad will depart for Bangladesh on October 20.

In Bangladesh, the squad will feature in a six-match white-ball series which also includes three ODIs, part of the ICC Women’s Championship 2022-25. The series itinerary will be announced in due course by the home board.

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The experienced Iram Javed stages a comeback to the national side after a one-year gap. The right-handed batter last played for Pakistan in the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022.

Iram also featured for Super Women against Amazon in the three women’s exhibition T20 matches earlier this year in Rawalpindi.

Meanwhile, Shawaal Zulfiqar and Syeda Aroob Shah have been excluded from the squad that played against South Africa last month in the white-ball series in Karachi, and Fatima Sana, who got injured in the second ODI against South Africa, is still in the process of recovering.

Both Shawaal and Aroob are part of the 28 probables of the Pakistan women’s emerging team taking part in the training camp in Muridke.

The emerging team will play a bilateral series and a triangular tournament involving West Indies and Thailand’s emerging cricket teams later this month.

Pakistan squad:

Nida Dar (captain), Aliya Riaz, Bismah Maroof, Diana Baig, Ghulam Fatima, Iram Javed, Muneeba Ali (wk), Najiha Alvi (wk), Nashra Sundhu, Natalia Parvaiz, Sadaf Shamas, Sadia Iqbal, Sidra Amin, Umm-e-Hani and Waheeda Akhtar