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One other Pakistan worldwide cricketer has been awarded a contract forward of the 2026 season of the Hundred League. This time it is Fatima Sana, the captain of Pakistan’s girls’s cricket crew, who has formally joined league franchise Birmingham Phoenix.
She earned her contract after displaying an important efficiency as an all-rounder within the ongoing ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup. Within the girls’s match in opposition to South Africa, Sana top-scored with 55 off 38 balls from quantity 8, and at Edgbaston she had 3 hits in 16.
Fatima Sana performs for Birmingham Phoenix
Nevertheless, her efforts went in useless as Pakistan misplaced to South Africa. Edgbaston is the house of The Hundred’s Birmingham Phoenix crew. Fatima Sana joined the England crew by way of Thursday’s wildcard draft.
With this deal, she turns into the primary Pakistani athlete to compete within the Ladies’s Hundred. Fatima Sana turns into the fourth abroad participant to affix the franchise after the departure of Australian cricketer Lucy Hamilton. Cricket Australia requested Hamilton to vacate his place within the crew to handle his workload.
Sana’s participation in The Hundred is unsure
Fatima Sana turns into the third participant from Pakistan to affix the league after Usman Tariq and Abrar Ahmed. This 12 months, Tariq will play for Birmingham Phoenix and Ahmed will play for Sunrisers Leeds within the Males’s Hundred League.
The Phoenix have secured the contract of the Pakistani all-rounder on a minimal wage of £15,000 a 12 months. Nevertheless, her participation within the league will likely be a priority as a result of her contribution to the Pakistan nationwide cricket crew.
In keeping with a report by ESPNCricinfo, “Sana will earn The Hundred’s minimal wage of £15,000 (roughly Rs. 5.6 million), however her quota could also be restricted by Pakistan’s scheduled tour of Sri Lanka (July 23 to August 4).”
Full checklist of gamers (women and men becoming a member of The Hundred within the Wild Card Draft):
Ladies’s Hundred Wildcard (£15,000)
London Spirit: Trudy Johnson, Liv Barnes
Birmingham Phoenix: Mary Taylor, Fatima Sana
Manchester Tremendous Giants: Mia Rogers, Beth Langston
Southern Courageous: Naomi Dattani, Catherine Fraser
Welsh Fireplace: Niamh Fiona Holland, Georgia Davies
MI London: Kate Kopac, Francesca Candy.
Trent Rockets: Amu Srenkmar, Eve Jones
Sunrisers Leeds: Darcey Carter, Sophia Turner
Males’s Hundred Wildcard (£31,000)
London Spirit: Henry Crocombe, Kiran Carlson
Manchester Tremendous Giants: James Gross sales, Adam Finch
Wales Fireplace: Jordan Clarke, Dillon Pennington
Trent Rockets: Ben Lane, Ben Sanderson
MI London: Eddie Jack, Sebastian Morgan
Birmingham Phoenix: Tom Helm, Sean Dixon
Sunrisers Leeds: Matty Levis, Charlie Allison
Southern Courageous: Manny Lumsden, Saif Zaib
Along with Sana, two different gamers from the continuing Ladies’s T20 World Cup have certified for the upcoming Ladies’s Hundred League. Scottish opening pitchers Darcy Carter and Catherine Fraser signed with Sunrisers Leeds and Southern Courageous respectively by way of the wildcard draft. Each gamers joined their respective franchises as native gamers.
Male cricketers entered the league at a base worth of £31,000, whereas the bottom worth for the ladies’s cricketer class was £15,000.
