Women cricket team to start training from 5th

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Training camp of Pakistan women’s cricket team will be organized from 5 to 14 August in National Cricket Academy (NCA), Lahore for upcoming event of 17th Asian Games in Korea and Australia.

Australia’s series will be played from August 15 to September 6.

14 members team squad:

Skipper Sana Mir, Bismah Maroof, Syeda Nain Fatima Abidi, Sidra Nawaz, Nida Rashid (WK), Javeria Wadood, Asmawiya Iqbal, Marina Iqbal, Aaliya Riaz, Kanta Jalil, Samia Siddiqui, Maham Tariq. Sania Iqbal and Sadia Yousuf.

For reserve players:

Rabia Shah, Erum Javed, Maham Tariq and Nahidah Khan are included as extra players.

e� v P�� ch. Including Kumar Sangakkara’s five, there have been only 12 such instances by Sri Lanka batsmen. Sanath Jayasuriya and Mahela Jayawardene are the other Sri Lanka batsmen to do it more than once.

 

The former Sri Lankan skipper’s best performance in a calender year was in 2006 when he scored 1242 runs at 69.00 with four hundreds and same number of fifties in 20 innings of 11 Test matches.

Mohammed Yusuf holds the record of scoring the highest number of runs in a calender year. The Pakistani batsman scored 1788 runs at 99.33 with nine hundreds and three fifties in 19 innings of 11 Test matches in 2006. His nine hundreds is also the most by a batsman in a calender year.

Australian Matthew Hayden is the only batsman who scored over 1000 runs in five successive calender years from 2001 to 2005.

OVER 1000 RUNS IN A CALENDER YEAR:

Batsman No of times Years

Sachin Tendulkar (India) 6 1997,1999,2001,2002,2008,2010

Matthew Hayden (Australia) 5 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005

Ricky Ponting (Australia) 5 2002,2003,2005,2006,2008

Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) 5 2004,2006,2009,2011,2014