Heather Knight is excited about the arrival of the Pakistan Women’s Cricket Team
Pakistan will be visiting England after eight years for a three-match T20 series followed by three ODIs.
Heather Knight, in an exclusive interview with Geo News, said that Pakistan’s team has shown some serious performances in the recent series against New Zealand and they won’t be taking the women lightly.
“I don’t think it will be an easy run at all. They have just got a new captain in Nida Dar, some of the players are performing more consistently and they’ve had some really good results recently so it won’t be easy at all. We are expecting a tough match against them and hopefully, we can bring our game and entertain the crowd,” the 2018 World Cup-winning captain said.
Heather Knight also said that the team has lots of talented players who are thriving and becoming amazing cricketers but she is extremely impressed with Sana Fatima.
“Fatima is a great kid and she’s got lots of energy enthusiasm, lots of passion. She is developing into a good bowler too so she is certainly the one to watch. I get on with the girls in the Pakistan team especially with Fati (Fatima Sana) as I said and Nida is a really lovely girl too.
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Knight also hinted that she’s good friends with the Pakistan team’s players.
“I always enjoy chatting with those girls and hearing what their life is like and how cricket is for them in their country. So it should be an exciting series and look forward to seeing them on English soil,” the English captain said.
Heather Knight was also hopeful that England will one day tour Pakistan for a women’s cricket series. Pakistan has visited England and played there a few times. The most recent one being in 2022 During the Commonwealth Games.
However, the English have been scheduled to play in Pakistan in 2021 for three ODIs and two T20i but the series was cancelled by the English Cricket Board due to security issues. The England’s men team was supposed to stop briefly in Pakistan for two T20Is before going to UAE for the ICC.
Fortunately, the English men were able to visit twice in 2022 for a seven-match T20I series, and three Tests were also scheduled.
“I’d love to go obviously isn’t in our future tours program for whatever reason at the moment I’m not sure why. Certainly would love to see it in the calendar so hopefully that can happen in the future,” she said.
Heather Knight herself has never been to Pakistan but now wants to visit after the feedback she’s got from her fellow female cricketers who visited last year to play in exhibition matches ahead of PSL.
Heather herself has never been to Pakistan and she expressed her desire to visit and explore the country and culture.
“It’s a country where I’d love to go to as it’s meant to be very beautiful and from what I’ve heard it’s really nice to visit.”
Pakistan Women’s Team is scheduled to play the first game of the series in Edgbaston on May, 11th 2024. It is also being reported that 10,000 tickets of the series have already been sold.
“There’s a strong Pakistani community here in Birmingham so hopefully the support will be good for both teams and looking forward to this. It’s gonna be a good series and excited to have them over here.
“I heard that the Edgbaston game is in particular selling well I think there’s been more than seventeen thousand tickets sold across the summer for women’s games already for us which is awesome. So we’d love to have their support for us, to get them behind us and hopefully, we will entertain them”, she added.
