Pakistan names women’s cricket squad for South Africa tour

The South African women's team will return to international action for the first time since March when they host Pakistan in January 2020.

The Pakistanis will begin their preparations with a warm-up match at Durban's Chartsworth Oval on January 16 against the South African Emerging squad.

The team will take the field for the first one-dayer at Kingsmead Stadium, Durban, on 20 January, it will mark their return to international cricket after over 10 months due to the Covid-19-enforced hiatus.

After the second one-dayer at the same venue on 23 January, they will move to Pietermaritzburg where they will play the third ODI on 26 January and first two T20Is on 29 and 31 January.

For the last T20I on 3 February, which will also be the last match of the tour, the team will return to Durban.

Pakistan has named a 17-member women’s squad for the ODI and T20I series against South Africa. Javeria Khan will lead the team in the absence of Bismah Maroof who pulled out of the tour due to family reasons.

The 17-player squad will continue to prepare for the tour in the bio-secure environment, which was set up on 20 December for the probables camp, in Karachi before their departure on 11 January.

The selected squad are namely stated below:

• Javeria Khan (captain)
• Aimen Anwar
• Aliya Riaz
• Anam Amin
• Ayesha Naseem
• Ayesha Zafar
• Diana Baig
• Fatima Sana
• Kainat Imtiaz
• Muneeba Ali Siddiqui
• Nahida Khan
• Nashra Sandhu
• Nida Dar
• Omaima Sohail
• Sadia Iqbal
• Sidra Nawaz (wk)
• Syeda Aroob Shah.