She made her ODI debut on 13 December 2006 at the age of 15 against India during the
2006 Women's Asia Cup and she made an impressive start to her ODI career scoring 43 runs off 76 balls while opening the batting. She made her WT20I debut on 29 May 2009 against
Ireland during the
2009 RSA T20 Cup. She was part of the Pakistan squad at the
2009 Women's Cricket World Cup in
Australia. She was part of the team that won a gold medal against
Bangladesh at the
2010 Asian Games in
China. She was named
vice-captain of the Pakistan squad that won a second successive gold medal against Bangladesh at the
2014 Asian Games in
South Korea. In 2016, she was named as the captain of the Pakistan women T20I side. She was ruled out of the
2017 Women's Cricket World Cup due to a hand injury and was replaced in the squad by
Iram Javed. She later replaced
Sana Mir as the captain of the Pakistan team with the latter being removed after the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup tournament where Pakistan lost all their matches. On 11 October 2017, Bismah was selected as captain of the Pakistan women's cricket team ahead of the
New Zealand series in the UAE. In the series, Pakistan won their first ever ODI against the
New Zealand in the third match. In March 2018, under her captaincy Pakistan clean swept
Sri Lanka 3-0 in the ODI series on the
Sri Lanka tour. This was only the second time that Pakistan team won an ODI series 3-0. She was the leading run-scorer for Pakistan in the
2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup, with 143 runs 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 but opted to stay aside from captaincy which made room for Javeria Khan to lead the side. Prior to the 2018 ICC WT20 campaign, she underwent an eye surgery for a sinus problem and it raised doubts over her cricketing future. In January 2019, she returned as skipper of the side for the
home WODI and WT20I series against the West Indies. In October 2019, she was named as the captain of the Women's Global Development Squad, ahead of a five-match series in Australia. In January 2020, she was named as the captain of Pakistan's squad for the
2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia. However, on 28 February 2020, in the match against
England, she broke her right thumb. She was ruled out of the rest of the tournament, with
Nahida Khan named as her replacement and
Javeria Khan captaining the side in her absence. In December 2020, she was shortlisted as one of the Women's Cricketer of the Year for the 2020 PCB Awards. In April 2021, Maroof announced that she was taking an indefinite break from cricket "as motherhood beckons". She became the first Pakistani cricketer to be a beneficiary of the Pakistan Cricket Board's maternity policy for the players which allows benefits for expecting mothers and fathers. After giving birth to a baby girl in August 2021, in December Maroof announced that she was returning to availability for Pakistan ahead of the
2022 World Cup. In January 2022, she was named as the captain of Pakistan's team for the
2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand. In May 2022, she was named as the captain of Pakistan's team for the
cricket tournament at the
2022 Commonwealth Games in
Birmingham, England. After an impressive T20 series against Sri Lanka where she had a strike rate of 85.52 with the bat, Maroof was nominated for the May 2022
ICC Women’s Player of the Month Award alongside teammate
Tuba Hassan and
Jersey player
Trinity Smith. On 25 April 2024, she announced her retirement from international cricket. ==Awards and honours==