Former Pakistan women’s cricket captain Sana Mir made history by becoming the first woman from her country to be inducted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) Hall of Fame alongside six other cricket greats.
ICC announced the names of the inductees, which included Sana Mir, former South African batters Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla, Matthew Hayden of Australia, Daniel Vettori of New Zealand, and England’s Sarah Taylor on Monday.
The ICC Hall of Fame pays tribute to the extraordinary achievements of cricket legends who have shaped the sport’s rich history, with players inducted only five years after they have played their last international match.
“A veteran in over 100 matches in both formats of white-ball cricket, Sana Mir becomes the first Pakistan woman cricketer to be inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame,” the ICC said in a post on its website on Monday.
Mir played international cricket for 15 years, captaining Pakistan for eight of those. She picked up 150 wickets in 121 ODIs and 89 wickets in 106 T20Is, scoring 1630 and 820 runs respectively.
