Contests evoke enthusiastic response from gamers, households; future plans could embrace All-Pakistan Ladies’s Tape League
KARACHI:
Throughout the holy month of Ramazan, the custom of enjoying cricket after iftar turns into more and more well-liked throughout Pakistan. In Karachi, the place younger persons are usually seen enjoying tape-ball cricket late into the evening, girls are actually more and more turning into a part of this rising development.
A girls’s tape-ball evening cricket event held at Hanif Mohammad Cricket Floor in Bahadurabad introduced collectively feminine gamers who not solely participated enthusiastically but in addition delivered thrilling contests that stored spectators engaged.
Within the ultimate, Malir Ladies Markhor Cricket Membership defeated Athletic Cricket Membership by 4 runs in a intently fought match to assert the title. The sport remained tense till the ultimate overs, with each groups competing fiercely.
Round 150 feminine gamers took half within the occasion. The matches, performed throughout Ramazan nights, additionally attracted a lot of members of the family who got here to assist the gamers and benefit from the energetic environment.
In accordance with the event organiser, Hadeel Ubaid Chanaye, the intention of the occasion is to supply girls with a protected and optimistic atmosphere to play cricket. She mentioned that requests from feminine gamers in different cities have additionally been acquired and there are plans to contemplate organising an All-Pakistan Ladies’s Tape-Ball League sooner or later.
Ladies cricketers collaborating within the event mentioned they stay up for the occasion all year long because it gives them not solely a possibility to play but in addition to be taught and showcase their expertise.
The successful workforce acquired a prize of Rs150,000, whereas the runners-up had been awarded Rs75,000. Gamers and organisers say such occasions can play an necessary position in increasing sporting alternatives for girls.
The Karachi girls’s cricket exercise appropriately comes at a time when the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) has launched its first-ever ICC Ladies’s Cricket Week, a world celebration of ladies’s cricket set to run from 16 to 22 October, aligning with the ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup 2025.
This revolutionary initiative is designed to unite the worldwide cricket group round an ICC girls’s World Cup, showcasing and supporting the expansion of ladies’s cricket and inspiring nationwide governing our bodies to take part in significant and domestically related methods.
The ICC Ladies’s Cricket Week can be an annual occasion, starting this 12 months in the course of the World Cup in India, with a imaginative and prescient to considerably improve the visibility, profile, and participation of ladies in cricket worldwide.
The ICC mentioned: “This 12 months has already marked a turning level for girls’s cricket, with record-breaking crowds, landmark performances, and an unmistakable sense of momentum constructing across the recreation.
“The launch of the ICC Ladies’s Cricket Week is one other proud milestone, a celebration not simply of the gamers on the world stage, however of each lady selecting up a bat or ball, dreaming of what is potential. It provides our Members, from Full to Affiliate, a significant alternative to take part within the international narrative and form the way forward for the ladies’s recreation in their very own communities.”
The initiative, which was endorsed by each the ICC Ladies’s Cricket Committee and the ICC Chief Executives’ Committee earlier this 12 months, helps key strategic aims beneath the ICC Ladies’s Cricket Technique, significantly the pillars of Profile and Participation. It additionally advances the objectives of the ICC 100% Cricket programme, geared toward elevating girls’s cricket and ladies within the sport.
