LAHORE: Pakistan women’s cricket team will face South Africa in the first of three T20Is at Durban’s Kingsmead Cricket Stadium on Friday (today).
This will be the national side’s first T20I since the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia last year.
Pakistan have played eight T20Is in South Africa to date and faced South Africa in six of them. The tourists won two — both in the last tour in 2019.
Nida Dar was the leading run-getter (192 runs) and highest wicket-taker (five wickets) when Pakistan toured South Africa in 2019.
In the recently concluded three-match ODI series, the 34-year-old scored back-to-back half-centuries in the first two matches and finished as the third best batter with 124 runs.
Aliya Riaz topped the…