Pakistan cricketer Sana Mir hails team's progress before Australia series

By Chloe Saltau
Updated August 26 2014 - 10:18am, first published August 20 2014 - 6:00pm
Field of dreams: Sana Mir, the captain of the Pakistan women’s team, at training in Brisbane on Wednesday. Photo: Glenn Hunt/Getty Images
Field of dreams: Sana Mir, the captain of the Pakistan women’s team, at training in Brisbane on Wednesday. Photo: Glenn Hunt/Getty Images

Sana Mir won’t accept that she is a pioneer for women’s cricket in Pakistan. That title, she says, has to go to the women who fought for years for recognition from the country’s cricket board, to the family that installed turf pitches on the grounds of its Karachi carpet factory to ensure access to training facilities, to the players who embarked on overseas tours at their own expense knowing they would end in heavy defeat.

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