Baig returns as Pakistan name squads for Australia and T20 World Cup

Baig missed out on Pakistan’s most up-to-date set of white-ball matches in opposition to Eire resulting from a shoulder harm, however the 27-year-old will return for the essential upcoming fixtures.

Pakistan tackle Australia in six white-ball video games (three T20I and three ODIs as a part of the ICC Girls’s Championship), earlier than embarking on the T20 showcase throughout February in South Africa.

Veteran chief Bismah Maroof will as soon as once more captain Pakistan throughout all of these matches, whereas in-form batter Sidra Ameen is called in each 15-player squads contemporary from being voted the ICC Girls’s Participant of the Month for November.

Chief selector Asmavia Iqbal believes expectations have been raised for the ever-improving Pakistan facet and she or he expects the gamers chosen to carry out with aplomb.

“I want luck to the gamers who’ve been chosen for each Australia sequence and ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup. I’m hopeful the facet will proceed to carry out in the identical method they’ve carried out not too long ago within the ACC Girls’s Asia Cup and Eire sequence,” she mentioned.

“The ODI sequence in opposition to Australia may be very essential, the expectations are excessive as we’ve got received 5 of the six ICC Championship matches and our purpose is to qualify instantly for the 50-over World Cup.

“We now have relied extra on the senior gamers within the formation of the squad for the World Cup and we count on them to make use of their expertise on the sphere and get optimistic outcomes for the staff.

“The return of Diana Baig, Sadia Iqbal and Tuba Hassan will improve the facet and can strengthen our bowling assault which has the potential to do properly. Sidra Nawaz has been added as our second wicket-keeper within the squad to offer Muneeba Ali some area to specific herself extra with the bat, and provides an added choice to the captain to utilise the companies of a second wicket-keeper on the lengthy tour.”

Pakistan are drawn in Group 2 alongside England, India, Eire and West Indies on the Girls’s T20 World Cup, with their first match coming in opposition to arch-rivals India in Cape City on February 12.

Pakistan ODI squad for Australia: 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)

Touring Reserves: Aimen Anwar, Javeria Khan and Tuba Hassan

Pakistan T20I squad for Australia and ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup: 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

Travelling Reserves: Ghulam Fatima, Kainat Imtiaz and Sadaf Shamas

Australia sequence schedule:
16 January – First ODI, Brisbane
18 January – Second ODI, Brisbane
21 January – Third ODI, North Sydney
24 January – First T20I, North Sydney
26 January – Second T20I, Hobart
29 January – Third T20I, Canberra

Pakistan Girls’s T20 World Cup fixtures:
12 February v India, Cape City
15 February v Eire, Cape City
19 February v West Indies, Paarl
21 February v England, Cape City