Fatima Sana-led Pakistan ladies’s workforce will take the sphere in opposition to Thailand of their first match of the ACC Girls’s T20 Asia Cup 2026 on Tuesday, 1 September, whereas the event is ready to kick off on Friday.
In the meantime, Thailand might be up in opposition to Hong Kong, China ladies within the opening match of the event.
In Pakistan the motion might be live-streamed on Tamasha and broadcast on PTV Sports activities. The ball-by-ball dwell scores may also be accessible on the Asian Cricket Council’s official web site.
All of the fixtures within the 15-match event will happen on the Dubai Worldwide Cricket Stadium (DICS) and can start at 7.30pm Pakistan time. Pakistan, who’re positioned in Group A, are set to face India on 5 September of their second match and can play Hong Kong, China on 7 August.
Defending champions Sri Lanka are positioned in Group B with Bangladesh, Indonesia and United Arab Emirates.
The semi-finals of the eight-team event might be performed on 10 and 11 September, respectively with the ultimate slated for 13 September.
Pakistan squad reached United Arab Emirates on 26 August after getting ready for the event with a 10-day coaching camp on the Nationwide Cricket Academy.
In Pakistan’s squad, top-order batter Sadaf Shamas changed wicketkeeper-batter Najiha Alvi, who was dominated out of the event after sustaining an harm in her left knee.
Pakistan ladies performed three T20Is on the DICS through the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup 2024. On the Girls’s Asia Cup, Pakistan’s finest outcomes have been in 2012 and 2016 after they completed runners-up in consecutive editions of the event. In 2022 and 2024 editions, Pakistan’s marketing campaign ended on the semi-finals stage.
The present version of the event would be the tenth iteration and sixth in T20 format after the primary 4 tournaments in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008 have been gamers in One-Day format.
Pakistan ladies’s captain Fatima Sana in her pre-departure media speak mentioned, “We performed matches in opposition to boys in our pre-tournament camp and that additionally helped us create stress conditions on the workforce, which is actually useful. Our purpose to undertake the situations as quickly as attainable within the event.
“We created such situations that helped our gamers cope with stress conditions. I’ll attempt to take the problem of this event day-by-day and nobody recreation is extra vital within the occasion. We need to win each single recreation and produce optimistic outcomes.”
Pakistan squad:
Fatima Sana (captain), Ayesha Zafar, Eman Naseer, Eyman Fatima, Gull Feroza, Momina Riasat, Muneeba Ali Siddiqui (wk), Nashra Sundhu, Sadaf Shamas, Sadia Iqbal, Saira Jabeen, Shawaal Zulfiqar, Tuba Hassan, Umm-e-Hani, Waheeda Akhtar.
Reserves – Tasmia Rubab, Humna Bilal, Maham Anees
Assist Workers: Wahab Riaz (coach/mentor), Ayesha Ashar (workforce supervisor), Abdur Rehman (spin bowling coach), Umaid Asif (quick bowling coach), Abdul Majeed (fielding coach), Imran Farhat (batting coach), Waleed Ahmed (efficiency analyst), Moeen (power & conditioning coach), Dur Samand (Physiotherapist) and Raza Rashid Kitchlew (media supervisor)