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One other Pakistan worldwide cricketer secured a contract forward of the 2026 season of The Hundred league. This time, it’s Pakistan’s girls’s cricket workforce captain Fatima Sana, who has formally joined the league franchise Birmingham Phoenix.
She landed the contract after a powerful all-rounder efficiency within the ongoing ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup. Towards South Africa, Girls, Sana top-scored with 55 not out off 38 balls from No. 8, then took 3 for 16 at Edgbaston.
Fatima Sana will play for the Birmingham Phoenix
Although her efforts went in useless, as Pakistan misplaced to South Africa. Edgbaston is the house floor of the Birmingham Phoenix workforce in The Hundred. Fatima Sana has joined the English workforce by way of the wildcard draft on Thursday.
With the deal, she has now change into the primary Pakistani participant to characteristic within the girls’s Hundred. Fatima Sana will be a part of the franchise as their fourth abroad recruit after the Australian cricketer Lucy Hamilton’s exit. Cricket Australia requested Hamilton to vacate his place within the squad as his workload can be managed.
Sana’s participation in The Hundred is doubtful
After Usman Tariq and Abrar Ahmed, Fatima Sana has joined the league because the third participant from Pakistan. Tariq will play for the Birmingham Phoenix, and Ahmed will play for the Sunrisers Leeds within the males’s Hundred league this yr.
Phoenix secures the signing of the Pakistan all-rounder for a minimal wage of £15,000. Nevertheless, her participation within the league might be below concern due to her commitments to the Pakistan nationwide cricket workforce.
“Sana will earn the Hundred’s minimal wage – £15,000 (5.6 million PKR approx.), although her availability could also be restricted by Pakistan’s scheduled tour to Sri Lanka (which runs from July 23 to August 4),” in keeping with an ESPNCricinfo report.
Full record of gamers (Males’s and Girls’s who be a part of The Hundred by way of wildcard draft):
Girls’s Hundred wildcards (£15,000)
London Spirit: Trudy Johnson, Liv Barnes
Birmingham Phoenix: Mary Taylor, Fatima Sana
The Manchester Tremendous Giants: Mia Rogers, Beth Langston
Southern Courageous: Naomi Dattani, Katherine Fraser
Welsh Hearth: Niamh Fiona Holland, Georgia Davis
MI London: Kate Coppack, Francesca Candy
Trent Rockets: Amu Surenkumar, Eve Jones
Sunrisers Leeds: Darcey Carter, Sophia Turner
Males’s Hundred wildcards (£31,000)
London Spirit: Henry Crocombe, Kiran Carlson
The Manchester Tremendous Giants: James Gross sales, Adam Finch
Welsh Hearth: Jordan Clark, Dillon Pennington
Trent Rockets: Ben Raine, Ben Sanderson
MI London: Eddie Jack, Sebastian Morgan
Birmingham Phoenix: Tom Helm, Sean Dickson
Sunrisers Leeds: Matty Revis, Charlie Allison
Southern Courageous: Manny Lumsden, Saif Zaib
Together with Sana, two different gamers from the continuing Girls’s T20 World Cup have earned their spots within the upcoming The Hundred league for Girls. Scotland openers Darcey Carter and Katherine Fraser had been signed by Sunrisers Leeds and Southern Courageous, respectively, by way of the wildcard draft. Each of the gamers have joined their respective franchises as native gamers.
Whereas the lads’s cricketers joined the league for a fundamental price ticket of £31,000, the essential price ticket for the Girls’s cricketers phase was £15,000.
