Sana Mir - Player Profile

Sana Mir - Captain

Full name Sana Mir

January 5, 1986, Abbottabad, North-West Frontier Province

Current age 26 years

Major teams Pakistan Women, South Zone Women (Pakistan)

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Legbreak

Sana Mir is a female Pakistani cricketer and captain of the Pakistan women's team. She was announced Player of the Tournament at the 2008 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier, and currently ranks 16th in the Women's ODI Bowlers in the ICC Player Rankings. She is also the only Pakistani in the top 20.

Personal Life

Alongside her cricketing career, Mir is a full time student. Her favourite cricketers are Waqar Younis, Jonty Rhodes and Imran Khan.

International Career

Captaincy

On May 4 2009, Mir was handed the Pakistan captaincy for the Women's

World Twenty20. She had formerly been vice-captain under Urooj Mumtaz, who remained in the squad. Mir's duties as vice-captain were handed over to Nain Abidi.

Mir retained the captaincy for the forthcoming ICC Women's Cricket Challenge in South Africa.

2010

At the 2010 Asian Games, Mir led the team to a gold medal.

2011

By Winning the National Championship for the fourth time in a row, Sana Mir has become the most successful captain of Pakistan at domestic level. Her team has not yet to lost a game at domestic level in the past four years.

Sana Mir also led the Pakistan team to their first ever tournament win in both the T20 and ODI formats when they played in Sri Lanka in 2011. The teams in the quadrangular cup were Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Ireland, and Holand. She was also awarded the Women of the Match title in the T20 quadrangular-cup final against Holland.

World Cup Qualifiers 2012: The women's team has qualified for the 2012 T20 and 2013 Women's ODI world cup under her captaincy. For the first time ever, the team also beat South Africa, thereby, improving their world ranking from 8 to 6.

2012

At Domestic cricket , the ZTBL team has won the first ever BB tournament and 7th National championship under her Captaincy. This makes it 5 in a row.

Moreover, Mir has become the first ever female cricketer from Pakistan to be awarded Tamgha-e-Imtiaz on 23rd of march 2012 , for her services in cricket.

Career statistics

ODI debut Pakistan Women v Sri Lanka Women at Karachi, Dec 28, 2005

T20I debut Ireland Women v Pakistan Women at Dublin, May 25, 2009