The Pakistan Women’s Cricket Team, the Women in Green, head into the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 in England and Wales with a squad that looks more dangerous than the ones that came before it. The tournament opens on June 12, 2026, and Pakistan’s group includes India and Australia. Getting out of that group would already be the furthest this team has gone at a T20 World Cup on English soil. That is where they have set their sights.
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Administration & Support Staff
The Pakistan Cricket Board has assembled the following support unit for the UK tour and World Cup campaign:
- Manager: Ayesha Ashhar
- Mentor and Head Coach: Wahab Riaz
- Batting Coach: Imran Farhat
- Fast Bowling Coach: Umaid Asif
- Spin Bowling Coach: Abdur Rehman
- Fielding Coach: Abdul Majeed
- Media Manager: Raza Kitchlew
- Team Analyst: Waleed Ahmed
History
Pakistan women’s cricket was built from scratch in the late 1990s, largely through the work of sisters Shaiza and Sharmeen Khan, who campaigned to establish the Pakistan Women’s Cricket Control Association. The team was brought under the PCB in 2005.
Their first ODI World Cup appearance came in 1997 in India. A decade later they featured in the inaugural 2009 ICC Women’s World Twenty20 in England.
No ICC World Cup title yet. Their biggest tournament wins came on the regional circuit: Gold Medals at the Asian Games in 2010 in Guangzhou and again in 2014 in Incheon. In between, they built a reputation for beating ranked sides when conditions, particularly spin-friendly ones, went their way.
Pakistan’s record at Women’s T20 World Cup
| Year | Round | Position | Mat | Won | Lost | NR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Group Stage | 8/8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2010 | Group Stage | 8/8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2012 | Group Stage | 7/8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2014 | Group Stage | 8/10 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 2016 | Group Stage | 6/10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2018 | Group Stage | 8/10 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2020 | Group Stage | 7/10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2023 | Group Stage | 8/10 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024 | Group Stage | 8/10 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Total | 9/9 | 0 Titles | 36 | 9 | 26 | 1 |
Pakistan Women’s Key Players
Fatima Sana
Fatima is 24 and captaining Pakistan at a T20 World Cup for the second consecutive time. She is a pace-bowling all-rounder, a former ICC Emerging Women’s Cricketer of the Year, and one of the few bowlers in the women’s game who can be trusted at the death. She bats with intent lower in the order too, which gives the team options it would not otherwise have. Pakistan, under her captaincy, plays with an aggression that was not always there before.
Muneeba Ali
Muneeba is the only Pakistani woman to score a century in a T20 International. She reached 102 against Ireland, a record that still stands. She opens left-handed and attacks the powerplay, which is both her strength and Pakistan’s strategy at the top: set the pace early and make the opposition adjust to you. English conditions can be testing for openers. How Muneeba handles that test will tell you a lot about how the tournament goes for Pakistan.
Aliya Riaz
Riaz has been in international cricket for over a decade, which in a squad with several young players, makes her the person the dressing room leans on. She bats in the middle order and hits the ball hard when the innings demands it, but the more useful quality is that she knows when that moment has arrived and when it has not. She also bowls medium pace and takes wickets. Pakistan have lost too many close matches from positions they should have won. Riaz tends to be the reason they do not.
FAQs
Fatima Sana, 24, is captaining the side for the second successive T20 World Cup.
Not an ICC World Cup. Their biggest international titles are Gold Medals at the 2010 and 2014 Asian Games.
ODI World Cup debut in 1997 in India. T20 World Cup debut in the inaugural 2009 edition in England.
Wahab Riaz, the former Pakistan men’s fast bowler, is serving as Mentor and Head Coach.
Muneeba Ali, who scored 102 against Ireland during the 2023 T20 World Cup.
