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Sana Mir

Sana Mir
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Mir in March 2009
Personal information
Full name Sana Mir
Born (1986-01-05) 5 January 1986 (age 31)
Abbottabad, Pakistan
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm offspin
International information
National side
ODI debut 28 December 2005 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI 19 February 2017 v India
ODI shirt no. 5
T20I debut 25 May 2009 v Ireland
Last T20I 4 December 2016 v India
Domestic team information
Years Team
2009–2010 Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited Women
2005–2010 Pakistan Cricket Board Women Greens
2008–2009 South Zone (Pakistan) Women
2005–2008 Karachi
Career statistics
Competition WODI WT20I WLO WT20
Matches 95 75 136 101
Runs scored 1,217 687 1,888 1.028
Batting average 16.67 14.31 20.52 16.85
100s/50s 0/2 0/0 1/5 0/1
Top score 52 48* 104* 50*
Balls bowled 4,591 1,562 6,224 2,000
Wickets 104 66 165 87
Bowling average 26.61 20.37 21.12 18.90
5 wickets in innings 1 0 3 0
10 wickets in match n/a n/a n/a n/a
Best bowling 5/32 4/13 5/18 4/9
Catches/stumpings 30/– 17/– 45/– 24/–
Source: ESPNCricinfo, 26 February 2017

Sana Mir (born 5 January 1986) is the captain of the Pakistan national women's cricket team in the ODIs as well as a former T20 captain. She is ranked 6th in ODI Bowlers in the World. Sana Mir has led Pakistan to two Gold medals in Asian Games 2010 and 2014. She was announced Player of the Tournament at the 2008 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier, and currently ranks 8th in the Women's ODI Bowlers in the ICC Player Rankings. She has been in Top 20 ICC rankings for last 9 years. During her Captaincy 8 players from Pakistan have made their way into the top 20 ICC rankings.

In February 2017, during the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier, she became the first Pakistan woman to take 100 wickets in WODIs.

Born to Kashmiri parents settled in Abbottabad in the Hazara region of Pakistan, Mir has completed her Bachelors in Statistics and economics. Her favourite cricketers are Waqar Younis, Imran Khan and Jonty Rhodes.

On 4 May 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.

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

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 lose 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 the Netherlands. She was also awarded the Women of the Match title in the T20 quadrangular-cup final against the Netherlands.


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