Reporting snapshot · 15 November 2026 (Asia/Karachi). The board announced its 2025 class on Sunday but has not said when the induction will be marked, and the career figures it published for Sana Mir differ slightly from the International Cricket Council's own profile of her. Both sets are set out below with the source each comes from.
The Pakistan Cricket Board announced on Sunday, 15 November, that Mohammad Yousuf and Sana Mir have been inducted into its Hall of Fame for 2025. Geo News carried the board’s statement and The Express Tribune reported the same announcement, each setting out how the two players were chosen.
The routes into the list are not the same. Yousuf, who played for Pakistan between 1998 and 2010, was selected through what the board called an independent and transparent voting process. Mir, Pakistan’s former women’s captain, enters under the board’s own criteria because the International Cricket Council had already inducted her into its Hall of Fame in 2025 — the first time a Pakistan woman cricketer had been so honoured.
A panel of six chose the batter
The board named the voters, Geo News reported: Hall of Famer Zaheer Abbas, former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja, former Test cricketer Bazid Khan, former Pakistan women’s captain Urooj Mumtaz, and the cricket journalists and analysts Saleem Khaliq and Sohail Imran. The Express Tribune reported the same panel, a mixture of former players on both sides of the game and two working journalists.
The case they weighed rests on a season in which Yousuf set world records. Geo News recorded that in 2006 he scored 1,788 Test runs and nine centuries, a world record for the most Test runs in a calendar year that surpassed Vivian Richards’ mark, set 30 years earlier. The Express Tribune set out the rest of the career: 90 Tests, 288 ODIs and three T20Is, 17,300 international runs with 39 centuries and 97 half-centuries, 7,530 Test runs at an average of 52.29 with 24 hundreds and 33 fifties, and a career-best score of 223.
The board’s own notes on the inductees, reproduced by The Express Tribune, add more: 9,720 runs in 288 ODIs at an average of 41.71 with 15 hundreds and 64 half-centuries, and a highest score of 141 not out. In 2006 he made 665 runs in the three-Test home series against the West Indies, a Pakistan record for a three-Test series that passed Zaheer Abbas’ mark of 583, and the board records that the ICC named him Test Player of the Year in 2007 for those performances. He also captained Pakistan in international cricket, the notes said.
PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi said in the board’s statement that both players had represented Pakistan with great pride and that their performances had earned them a special place in the history of Pakistan cricket.
A captain’s record, and two sets of numbers
The International Cricket Council’s own Hall of Fame profile lists Mir as inducted in 2025, with a career from 2005 to 2019. It records that she took 150 wickets in 121 ODIs and 89 in 106 T20Is, scored 1,630 runs in ODIs and 820 in T20Is, captained for eight years from the age of 23, and led Pakistan to Asian Games gold medals in 2010 and 2014. The profile also records that she reached the number-one ranking in ODI bowling in 2018 and used her position to argue for the women’s game in Pakistan cricket.
The board’s own figures, as The Express Tribune reported them, differ slightly: 226 international matches, 240 wickets and 2,432 runs, with 151 wickets in 120 ODIs at an economy rate of 3.70 and a best of five for 32, plus 1,630 runs in that format, and 89 wickets in 106 T20Is with 802 runs. The two sets cannot be reconciled from what has been published — the ICC counts one more ODI, one fewer wicket in that format and 18 more runs in the T20Is — so both are given here as published. The board’s notes also record that Mir was the first Pakistan woman to take 100 ODI wickets and to complete the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets.
What the records do not cover is what Mir did with them. The ICC’s profile notes that she spoke up for women’s rights in Pakistan cricket throughout her career, and that under her captaincy several of her teammates rose in the rankings; The Express Tribune described her role in the growth of the women’s game in the country.
The fourteen names already on the roll
The two join a roll of fourteen the board listed: Abdul Qadir, AH Kardar, Fazal Mahmood, Hanif Mohammad, Imran Khan, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Javed Miandad, Misbah-ul-Haq, Mushtaq Mohammad, Saeed Anwar, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Younis Khan and Zaheer Abbas. It runs from the first Pakistan Test side to the most recent generation of Test cricketers, and Mir is the first woman on it.
Several things remain unsaid. Neither report gives a date or a venue for the induction, and the board’s statement refers to its induction criteria without setting them out, so the route that carried Mir in automatically is described but not published. What the honour itself involves is also not specified.
The announcement comes in a busy month for Pakistan cricket. The senior side drew the first Test against Sri Lanka at Rawalpindi on 13 November, KhabarWire reported, with the second Test due from 17 November, and the Under-19 side’s run to the Asian Cup final that KhabarWire followed ended with the final in Muscat on Saturday. KhabarWire is tracking the rest of the campaign in its Pakistan Cricket hub.
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