Sana Mir turns into first Pakistani girl cricketer inducted into ICC Corridor of Fame

An undated image of former Pakistan cricketer Sana Mir. — AFP

KARACHI: Former Pakistan ladies’s cricket captain Sana Mir made historical past on Monday as the primary feminine cricketer from her nation to be inducted into the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) Corridor of Fame.

The announcement got here throughout a ceremony forward of the World Take a look at Championship last, the place seven new inductees had been unveiled by West Indies legend Ian Bishop.

She was inducted alongside 2025 classmates together with India’s MS Dhoni, England’s Sarah Taylor, South Africa’s Hashim Amla and Graeme Smith, Australia’s Matthew Hayden and New Zealand’s Daniel Vettori.

The previous off-spinning all-rounder, who represented Pakistan for round 15 years, joins an elite group of simply 14 ladies and turns into the eighth Pakistani total to obtain the honour.

She revolutionised ladies’s cricket in Pakistan throughout her 15-year worldwide profession from 2005-2019, setting quite a few information together with turning into the primary Pakistani girl to prime the ICC ODI bowling rankings in 2018.

She stays Pakistan’s main wicket-taker in ladies’s ODIs with 151 scalps and was the primary Asian girl to play 100 T20 internationals.

As captain for eight years, Mir led Pakistan to 2 Asian Video games gold medals (2010 and 2014) and guided the group in 5 T20 World Cups and two ODI World Cups.

Her management produced landmark moments together with Pakistan’s first ODI victory towards South Africa and qualification for the 2017 World Cup Tremendous Sixes, the place her 5/14 towards Scotland proved decisive.

“From playing street cricket in Pakistan to this moment today, it’s been an incredible journey,” Mir mentioned throughout the ceremony. “This is very emotional moment for me.”

Sana Mir retired in 2019 as certainly one of Pakistan’s most embellished athletes, having additionally served as a vocal advocate for ladies’s sports activities and psychological well being consciousness.

Mir joins seven different Pakistani cricketers within the Corridor of Fame: Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Javed Miandad, Abdul Qadir, Zaheer Abbas, Waqar Younis and Hanif Mohammad.