Mir, now Pakistan's captain, middle-order bat and crafty off-spinner, learnt to play cricket on the streets of Pakistan – there were few facilities for girls – and started up teams with her brother and his friends wherever her father's army posting took the family.
She was one of nine debutants when Pakistan's women first played under the PCB banner in 2005, but Shaiza Khan and her sister, unable to make peace with the ruling body, were not there.
Mir and her teammates have contracts from the PCB and, with the exception of those studying for masters degrees, all are full-time cricketers.
