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Full name | Shaiza Said Khan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Karachi, Pakistan | 18 March 1969||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm leg break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Sharmeen Khan (sister) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut(cap 7) | 17 April 1998 v Sri Lanka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 15 March 2004 v West Indies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut(cap 9) | 28 January 1997 v New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 2 April 2004 v West Indies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2005/06 | Karachi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,13 December 2021 |
Shaiza Said Khan (born 18 March 1969) is a Pakistani former cricketer who played as a right-arm leg break bowler and right-handed batter. She and her sister,Sharmeen,are considered pioneers of women's cricket in Pakistan. [1] She appeared in three Test matches and 40 One Day Internationals for Pakistan between 1997 and 2004,captaining the side throughout this period. She played domestic cricket for Karachi. [2] [3]
Shaiza Khan was born to a wealthy carpet merchant in Karachi. She attended the Convent of Jesus and Mary,Karachi and then joined the Concord College,Acton Burnell,Shropshire for her O &A Levels. She later went to the University of Leeds where she studied Textile Engineering,as well as became the first non-British captain of the women's cricket team. [4] She also played a match for Middlesex in 1991,against East Anglia,in which she took 6/39 from her 11 overs. [5]
She holds the world record for the best bowling figures in a Test match,taking 13/226 against the West Indies in 2004 in Karachi. [6] [7] [8] During her 13-wicket haul she also took a hat-trick,only the second in women's Test history after Betty Wilson's feat against England in February 1958. [9]
She also held the record for the most wickets on a single ground in WODIs,with 23 wickets at National Stadium,Karachi,until it was broken by Shabnim Ismail in 2019. [10]