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From Smriti Mandhana to Abtaha Maqsood, Al Jazeera picks the ten gamers who can increase the event within the UAE.
A few of the greatest cricketing expertise will likely be on show on the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup 2024, which kicks off on Thursday with a match between Bangladesh and Scotland in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
All ten groups will depend on the expertise of their massive gamers to steer all of them the way in which to victory within the October 20 closing in Dubai.
Al Jazeera picks the ten gamers to look at in the course of the ninth version of the event.
Chamari Athapathuthu: Sri Lanka
Athapathuthu will spearhead Sri Lanka’s marketing campaign on the event together with her spectacular all-round abilities. The Sri Lankan captain is ranked fifth within the ICC Girls’s T20 all-round rankings and not too long ago led her nation to its first-ever Asia Cup title. The 34-year-old bowls correct off-spin and might be an explosive batsman within the shortest format of the sport. Athapaththu has made 246 worldwide appearances since her debut – on the age of 19 – within the T20 World Cup in 2006 and likewise has a wealth of expertise in franchise T20 cricket.
Chamari Athapaththu has 246 worldwide appearances for Sri Lanka (File: Tony Marshall/Getty Photos)
Deepti Sharma: India
Sharma will likely be essential to India’s possibilities as her nation’s highest-ranked bowler (2nd) and all-rounder (third) within the T20 format. The 27-year-old off-break bowler and left-handed batter has performed 211 occasions for her nation. The down-to-earth Indian star was one of many key gamers on the Girls’s Hundred event in England, the place her monstrous six-off sealed the title for London Spirit.
Fatima Sana: Pakistan
Sana, who made her debut in 2019 on the age of 18, is the rising star of Pakistani cricket and his massive hope after the tough latest run. Though she is but to attain a fifty for her nation, the fast-bowling all-rounder has scored no less than 20 runs in her final six worldwide innings. The younger captain will look so as to add extra wickets to her 31 dismissals in T20s if Pakistan are to make a mark within the event.
Smriti Mandhana: India
Mandhana has been a mainstay of India’s batting since her debut in 2014. The Indian vice-captain is the second-highest run-getter in T20 internationals with 56 half-centuries to her identify. The 28-year-old from Mumbai led her Bengaluru franchise to their first Girls’s Premier League title earlier this yr and can look to assist India do the identical within the T20 World Cup.
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Beth Mooney: Australia
Opening batsman Mooney presently sits on the prime of the ICC’s T20 batting rankings and is considered one of a number of massive gamers in an skilled Australian aspect. The 30-year-old, who made her debut for Queensland on the age of 16, has registered two centuries and 23 fifties in 95 innings for the reigning champions.
Nahida Akter: Bangladesh
Akter is one wicket shy of 100 in T20 internationals with a median of simply 16. The left-arm finger spinner has the perfect bowling figures of 5-8 in 87 T20 internationals at simply 24 years of age. Akter scored 2-17 on his debut 9 years in the past as a 15-year-old in opposition to Pakistan in Karachi.
Abtaha Maqsood: Scotland
A promising leg-spinner, the 25-year-old has already claimed 54 T20 wickets, in opposition to a median of 15 in 53 matches for Scotland. Maqsood’s contributions may take the Scotland staff to the subsequent degree, particularly given the spinner-friendly situations within the UAE. The dependable spinner may make this World Cup a breakthrough worldwide event for herself and her nation, who’re making their T20 World Cup debut.
Abtaha Maqsood performs her home cricket for Sunrisers and Birmingham Phoenix within the UK (File: Harry Trump/Getty Photos)
Laura Wolvaardt: South Africa
Wolvaardt will attempt to information her staff to the ultimate step, after ending second within the final version. The 25-year-old has a wealth of expertise, having made her debut as a 16-year-old in an ODI in opposition to England in 2016. The precise-handed opening batswoman sits fifth within the T20 rankings, her nation’s highest in any self-discipline. and has one century and 11 fifties in 66 T20 innings for her nation.
Sophie Ecclestone: England
Ecclestone is the highest-ranked bowler in each the ICC T20 and ODI rankings. The left-arm finger spinner has made 159 appearances in all codecs for England at simply 25 years previous and has 126 wickets in 85 T20 internationals, with a median of simply 14. After making her debut for her nation on the age of 17, Ecclestone had claimed the title primary within the T20 age group by the age of 20.
Hayley Matthews: West Indies
The West Indies captain presently enjoys the place of the world’s greatest all-rounder and sits third within the batting rankings. Matthews’ status lengthy preceded her worldwide debut on the age of 16, and at 25 she has already amassed 180 appearances for the West Indies and two centuries and 13 fifties in 96 T20 internationals.
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