Pakistan Women’s Cricket team member Nida Dar has rewritten the history books by becoming the first-ever Pakistani cricketer to take 100 T20I wickets.
Nida Rashid Dar known as Nida Dar(2 January 1987,Gujranwala is an international cricketer from Pakistan. In June 2021, in the opening match of the series against the West Indies, Dar became the first bowler, male of female, to take 100 wickets in T20I cricket for Pakistan
Career
Dar made her one-day international debut against Ireland on 6 October 2010 in Potchefstroom, South Africa.[1]
She made her Women’s Twenty20 International (WT20I) debut on 6 May 2010 against Sri Lanka at Basseterre, St. Kitts. She was selected to play in the 2010 Asian Games in China.[4]
On 6 June 2018, during the 2018 Women’s Twenty20 Asia Cup match against Sri Lanka, she took her first five-wicket haul and the best bowling figures by a Pakistan woman in WT20Is.
She finished the tournament as the highest wicket-taker for Pakistan, with eleven dismissals in five matches.
In October 2018, she was named in Pakistan’s squad for the 2018 ICC Women’s World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.Following the conclusion of the tournament, she was named as the standout player in the team by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
In January 2020, she was named in Pakistan’s squad for the 2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia.In Pakistan’s match against England, she played in her 100th WT20I match
She is also only the fifth woman cricketer to achieve the feat around the world.
Speaking about the achievement, Dar said a lot of hard work had gone into working to achieve the milestone of 100 wickets.
“I’m feeling great about the achievement but unfortunately, the match did not finish in the same condition as we wanted it to finish,” she said, referring to Pakistan’s loss to the West Indies by 10 runs in the first T20I.
Dar is also, according to the ICC, the sixth player of all time to get to 100 T20I wickets.