ISLAMABAD: Pakistan women’s cricket team captain Fatima Sana, aims to bring a different and fearless approach to the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup this year.

“In the past, we’ve often struggled in the powerplay, with early wickets falling, middle-order collapses, and a slow pace of runs leading to low totals. We’ve also found it difficult to chase targets above 120,” she was quoted as saying by ICC. She said, “We understand how crucial it is to have positive intent, especially in the powerplay, to set the tone and post competitive scores.

Sana said recently, we’ve started playing with more attacking intent, and some young players have shown exciting potential. She said Nida Dar is the leading wicket-taker in T20s, and we have two talented leg spinners, Syeda Arooba Shah, who captained Pakistan U19 at the T20 World Cup, and Tuba Hassan, who has been a key player since her debut. Both of them bring a lot of energy in the field, and our strong spin department will be crucial in the Dubai conditions. “We put up our highest-ever T20I total of 181 runs in the second match, which showed that our new approach is starting to pay off.

While we were disappointed with our Asia Cup loss to Sri Lanka, we are motivated to put that right when we face them in the first group game of the World Cup”, she said.