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Asad Shafiq, Abdul Razzaq be a part of Pakistan ladies’s choice committee

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The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has reconstituted its nationwide ladies’s choice committee, increasing it to seven members. The choice was taken by PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi, and comes within the wake of Pakistan’s 3-0 ODI sequence loss to West Indies at dwelling earlier this week.
In keeping with a PCB launch on Thursday, the retained members from the earlier choice committee embrace former Pakistan internationals Asmavia Iqbal and Marina Iqbal. Becoming a member of them on the committee are Abdul Razzaq and Asad Shafiq, each a part of the lads’s nationwide choice committee, and former Pakistan wicketkeeper-batter Batool Fatima. The top coach and captain (at the moment Mohtashim Rasheed and Nida Dar) will even be a part of the seven-member panel. Former quick bowler Saleem Jaffar in the meantime is now not a part of the committee.

The primary activity for the brand new choice committee will probably be to choose the squad for Pakistan’s upcoming tour of England, the place they’re scheduled to play three T20Is and three ODIs from Might 11 to 29. All three ODIs are a part of the ICC ODI ladies’s championship 2022-25.

Pakistan are at the moment fifth on the ladies’s championship desk with eight wins and 13 losses in 21 ODIs. Forward of them on the factors desk are Australia, South Africa, England and New Zealand. The highest 5 groups from the championship, together with hosts India, will instantly qualify for the 2025 ODI Girls’s World Cup. The remaining groups will take part in a qualifier match.

Pakistan began off the ODI sequence in opposition to West Indies with a 113-run loss. They then suffered a slim, two-wicket defeat within the second recreation earlier than taking place within the third ODI by 88 runs. With scores of 140*, 44 and 141, Hayley Matthews was the star of the sequence as she completed with 325 runs whereas averaging 162.50. She was additionally the joint-leading wicket-taker together with Dar, selecting up six wickets.

Pakistan will now compete in a five-match T20I sequence in opposition to West Indies which will get underway on April 26 and can run by means of until Might 3. All matches will probably be performed in Karachi. They’ll then journey to England with the primary T20I scheduled to be performed on Might 11 in Birmingham.

Girls’s Nationwide Choice Committee:

Abdul Razzaq
Asad Shafiq
Asmavia Iqbal
Batool Fatima
Marina Iqbal
Captain
Head Coach


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