Women’s cricket needs proper infrastructure so it can flourish at the international level
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) already introduced a one-day championship and twenty 20 match at the domestic level in women’s cricket but it should introduce a four-day game at at the domestic level. Regional teams, like Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, for a total of five or six cities is enough at the beginning. The department should make it a point to also introduce women’s teams and female players should be given contracts like male players are given.
Pakistan women’s cricket performance against bigger teams is poor. In 2015, the team won the ODI series against Bangladesh by 2-0, and against Sri Lanka by 3-0 but lost the ODI series with the West Indies by 3-1, and against South Africa by 2-1. Similarly, the women’s team won the T20I series against the West Indies by 3-0, against Bangladesh by 2-0, and against South Africa by 2-1 but lost the T20I series with Sri Lanka by 2-1.
No women’s team has played a Test match since 2004, when they played against the West Indies. If the PCB introduces a four-day game at the domestic level, the team will work on improving. Whenever the women’s team loses, it is due to their batting line up failing and they end up not even playing their full 50 overs. Women’s cricket needs proper infrastructure so it can flourish at the international level like other women’s cricket teams. The PCB also should organise more foreign tours.
Ghazanfar Ali Khan
Published in The Express Tribune, September 25th, 2016.
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