Pakistan will open their ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup 2026 marketing campaign towards arch-rivals India on Sunday, 14 June on the Edgbaston Cricket Floor in Birmingham.
The tenth version of the event, hosted by the England and Wales Cricket Board from 12 June to five July, marks the largest Girls’s T20 World Cup in historical past, with the sphere increasing from 10 to 12 groups.
A complete of 33 matches will likely be performed throughout seven venues, with the ultimate scheduled for the long-lasting Lord’s Cricket Floor in London on 5 July.
Pakistan have been positioned in Group 1 alongside document six-time champions Australia, India, South Africa, Bangladesh and Netherlands, who will likely be making their first look on the event.
Group 2 options defending champions New Zealand, hosts England, 2016 winners West Indies, Sri Lanka, Eire and Scotland. The highest two sides from every group will advance to the semi-finals, scheduled for 30 June and a pair of July.
Captain Fatima Sana takes cost of the aspect for the second successive T20 World Cup after having led the crew within the 2024 version held within the UAE. The 24-year-old all-rounder enters the event in extraordinary kind, having set the world document for the quickest half-century in Girls’s T20Is throughout Pakistan’s 3-0 sequence sweep over Zimbabwe in Karachi final month, reaching 50 off simply 15 balls and breaking a document that had beforehand been collectively held at 18 balls.
Eyman Fatima, Rameen Shamim and Saira Jabeen are set to make their ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup debut, whereas wicketkeeper-batter Muneeba Ali Siddiqui, opening batter Gull Feroza and seasoned campaigners Aliya Riaz, Diana Baig, Nashra Sundhu, Sadia Iqbal and Tuba Hassan are amongst these anticipated to play key roles. Iram Javed and Ayesha Zafar full the 15-member squad.
Natalia Parvaiz and Tasmia Rubab have been unused members of Pakistan’s 2018 and 2024 T20 World Cup squads, respectively.
Among the many present squad, wicketkeeper-batter Muneeba Ali Siddiqui is Pakistan’s main run-scorer on the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup with 247 runs in 17 innings, together with a highest rating of 102 towards Eire in 2023 — the primary century for Pakistan girls in T20 Internationals. Left-arm spinner Nashra Sundhu tops the bowling chart among the many group with 16 wickets in as many appearances, with greatest figures of 4 for 18, additionally towards Eire within the 2023 version.
Pakistan’s preparations have featured bilateral away T20I sequence towards South Africa, at residence towards Zimbabwe together with coaching camps and a Girls’s T20I tri-series in Eire towards the hosts and West Indies from 28 Might to 4 June, adopted by two warm-up fixtures in Derby towards Sri Lanka on 6 June and Scotland on 9 June.
Following their event opener towards India, Pakistan will stay at Edgbaston to face South Africa on Wednesday, 17 June, earlier than travelling to the Hampshire Bowl in Southampton to tackle Bangladesh on Saturday, 20 June. Their fourth fixture is towards Australia at Headingley in Leeds on Tuesday, 23 June and the group stage concludes towards Netherlands on the Bristol County Floor on Saturday, 27 June.
Chatting with PCB Digital, Pakistan girls’s crew mentor Wahab Riaz stated: “We have now labored laborious over the previous few months, taking part in a sequence towards Zimbabwe and going through Eire and West Indies. It is a younger and energetic group that may rise to the event on the World Cup.
You put together your whole life to play in a World Cup and it is a chance everybody seems ahead to. Our focus is on taking part in a fearless and optimistic model of cricket. We have to imagine in our laborious work and the outcomes will observe.”
Talking about Pakistan’s group and objectives, Wahab added: “Our group has a number of the most interesting sides within the event and it is a good alternative for us to start out heading in the right direction, with issues getting simpler because the occasion progresses. We have now a mix of kids and senior gamers and I’m assured that, given the laborious work these gamers have put in, in the event that they play to their potential they’ll ship a top-four end.”
Pakistan’s fixtures at ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup 2026:
14 June v India, Edgbaston, Birmingham – 6.30pm PKT | 2.30pm native time
17 June v South Africa, Edgbaston, Birmingham – 10.30pm PKT | 6.30pm native time
20 June v Bangladesh, Hampshire Bowl, Southampton – 6.30pm PKT | 2.30pm native time
23 June v Australia, Headingley, Leeds – 10.30pm PKT | 6.30pm native time
27 June v Netherlands, Bristol County Floor, Bristol – 2.30pm PKT | 10.30am native time.
