Fatima Sana celebrates after taking the wicket of Tazmin Brits (not pictured) in the course of the ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup India 2025 match in opposition to South Africa at R. Premadasa Stadium on October 21, 2025, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. — ICC
Pakistan captain Fatima Sana has turn out to be the primary Pakistani cricketer to be chosen for the ladies’s version of The Hundred after Birmingham Phoenix picked her in Thursday’s wildcard draft.
The Pakistan captain and all-rounder has taken up the Phoenix’s fourth abroad slot, which had opened up after Cricket Australia withdrew Lucy Hamilton so as to handle her workload.
Sana will earn the match’s minimal wage of £15,000 (roughly 5.6 million PKR), though her participation could also be restricted because of Pakistan’s scheduled tour of Sri Lanka from July 23 to August 4.
Her choice comes simply hours after a standout all-round efficiency in Pakistan’s slender defeat to South Africa at Edgbaston, the Phoenix’s house floor. Sana top-scored with an unbeaten 55 off 38 balls from No. 8, earlier than taking 3 for 16 as South Africa edged house with two wickets in hand.
Sana turns into the third Pakistan participant to safe a contract in The Hundred this 12 months. She joins Usman Tariq at Birmingham Phoenix, whereas thriller spinner Abrar Ahmed is ready to characterize Sunrisers Leeds after being signed for £190,000 at March’s public sale.
His inclusion has eased issues that Pakistan gamers might be sidelined underneath the match’s new Indian possession construction.
Elsewhere within the wildcard draft, a number of gamers from the Ladies’s T20 World Cup secured offers. Every franchise signed two males’s and two ladies’s gamers on minimal contracts to finish their squads.
Scotland openers Darcey Carter and Katherine Fraser had been picked up by Sunrisers Leeds and Southern Courageous, respectively, each qualifying as native gamers.
Within the males’s competitors, notable picks included Sussex seamer Henry Crocombe becoming a member of London Spirit after a current England Take a look at call-up, whereas MI London added younger quick bowlers Eddie Jack and Seb Morgan. Southern Courageous additionally secured England Beneath-19 pacer Manny Lumsden.
The Hundred will run from July 21 to August 16 this summer season, marking the primary season since personal buyers assumed partial or full management of franchises following the sale of stakes in groups final 12 months.
Males’s Hundred wildcards (£31,000)Welsh Hearth: Jordan Clark, Dillon PenningtonSouthern Courageous: Manny Lumsden, Saif ZaibThe Manchester Tremendous Giants: James Gross sales, Adam FinchLondon Spirit: Henry Crocombe, Kiran CarlsonBirmingham Phoenix: Tom Helm, Sean DicksonMI London: Eddie Jack, Sebastian MorganSunrisers Leeds: Matty Revis, Charlie AllisonTrent Rockets: Ben Raine, Ben Sanderson.Ladies’s Hundred wildcards (£15,000)Birmingham Phoenix: Mary Taylor, Fatima SanaWelsh Hearth: Niamh Fiona Holland, Georgia DavisLondon Spirit: Trudy Johnson, Liv BarnesTrent Rockets: Amu Surenkumar, Eve JonesThe Manchester Tremendous Giants: Mia Rogers, Beth LangstonMI London: Kate Coppack, Francesca SweetSouthern Courageous: Naomi Dattani, Katherine FraserSunrisers Leeds: Darcey Carter, Sophia Turner.
