{"id":171192,"date":"2025-06-09T20:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171192\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:52:08","slug":"sana-mir-becomes-first-pakistani-woman-cricketer-inducted-into-icc-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171192\/","title":{"rendered":"Sana Mir becomes first Pakistani woman cricketer inducted into ICC Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/608392_3881873_updates.jpg\" alt=\"An undated picture of former Pakistan cricketer Sana Mir. \u2014 AFP\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>An undated picture of former Pakistan cricketer Sana Mir. \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Mir joins elite group of just 14 women to receive honour.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Thanks teammates, coaches and family for all their support.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Ex-Pakistan captain was inducted alongside six other cricketers.\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>KARACHI: Former Pakistan women&#8217;s cricket captain Sana Mir made history on Monday as the first female cricketer from her country to be inducted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came during a ceremony ahead of the World Test Championship final, where seven new inductees were unveiled by West Indies legend Ian Bishop.<\/p>\n<p>She was inducted alongside 2025 classmates including India&#8217;s MS Dhoni, England&#8217;s Sarah Taylor, South Africa&#8217;s Hashim Amla and Graeme Smith, Australia&#8217;s Matthew Hayden and New Zealand&#8217;s Daniel Vettori. <\/p>\n<p>The former off-spinning all-rounder, who represented Pakistan for around 15 years, joins an elite group of just 14 women and becomes the eighth Pakistani overall to receive the honour. <\/p>\n<p>She revolutionised women&#8217;s cricket in Pakistan during her 15-year international career from 2005-2019, setting numerous records including becoming the first Pakistani woman to top the ICC ODI bowling rankings in 2018. <\/p>\n<p>She remains Pakistan&#8217;s leading wicket-taker in women&#8217;s ODIs with 151 scalps and was the first Asian woman to play 100 T20 internationals. <\/p>\n<p>As captain for eight years, Mir led Pakistan to two Asian Games gold medals (2010 and 2014) and guided the team in five T20 World Cups and two ODI World Cups. <\/p>\n<p>Her leadership produced landmark moments including Pakistan&#8217;s first ODI victory against South Africa and qualification for the 2017 World Cup Super Sixes, where her 5\/14 against Scotland proved decisive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom dreaming as a little girl that one day there would even be a women&#8217;s team in our country to now standing here, inducted among the very legends I idolised long before I ever held a bat or a ball \u2014 this is a moment I couldn\u2019t have dared to imagine,\u201d she was quoted as saying by the ICC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am incredibly grateful for this honour and hope to give back to the sport in any way I can. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my teammates, coaches and family for all their support over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sana Mir retired in 2019 as one of Pakistan&#8217;s most decorated athletes, having also served as a vocal advocate for women&#8217;s sports and mental health awareness.<\/p>\n<p>Mir joins seven other Pakistani cricketers in the Hall of Fame: Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Javed Miandad, Abdul Qadir, Zaheer Abbas, Waqar Younis and Hanif Mohammad.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An undated picture of former Pakistan cricketer Sana Mir. \u2014 AFP Mir joins elite group of just 14&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[47988,1406,71285,24391,4923,24390,2192,71286,6697,71283,3577,71284,71282,79,16,15,3137],"class_list":{"0":"post-171192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-becomes","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-cricketer","11":"tag-fame","12":"tag-first","13":"tag-hall","14":"tag-icc","15":"tag-inducted","16":"tag-into","17":"tag-mir","18":"tag-of","19":"tag-pakistani","20":"tag-sana","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-woman"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114655392357173692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}