Women’s cricket has been becoming popular for the last five years, now, women can get potential grounds to manage the sports for women. Now, the international platforms are offering more for women so they may come up with high energies.
Last year T20 and Melbourne World Cup was enough to give more status to the Pakistani cricketers. They can gain more success as they are gaining support from all sectors to boost up their potential strengths.
These championships are generous in keeping support for the women. They are going to enjoy the right level of support on account of national and international platforms to display their best game to the world.
T20 Paved the Way for Women’s Cricket
In 2015, the idea of the Women Big Bash League was a platform for Pakistani female cricketers to have some grounds. It was offering more viewership for women than the same league for men, which added to the popular trend of women in sports for Pakistan.
In 2018, India launched IPL for women where they were welcoming foreign players from other countries. In this context, Pakistani cricketers also entered the IPL to become part of the special games in Asia.
T20 was sure to support Pakistani cricketers, they contested and were selected to play the matches in India. Jaipur stadium found a huge percentage of the crazy audience for waving the Pakistani popular ladies.
Sharjah Cup of 2020 gave a huge percentage of viewership which crossed 5.3 billion approximately. This gave an exact launch pad to Pakistani players as they played tremendously for another time to make sure that they are excellent!
Emerging Players
The opportunities play an exact role in keeping the high rate of performance, so the chances were high as the women got exposure. In this way, popular players like Bismah Maroof, Nahida Khan, Nida Dar, and many others came to the screens.
The exposure played an animated role to show that the number of women in cricket is increasing in percentage after 2015. The tremendous boost is recorded in the era 2015-20. Cricketers are recorded with 57 half-centuries and above seven centuries.
The players are gaining confidence as they are getting exposure on the international level, this is adding to their confidence level, in addition, PCB policies are showing high support to see the prosperity for the women in cricket.
Wasim Khan, PCB Head shares, “Pakistani women have high potential this is why they are flying with trendy colors, we are giving them platform plus opportunities not culturally but for their success”.
Changed Priorities
Now, the trends are modified this is why the new priorities are seeking more options for the progress of women cricket. T20, no doubt, gave them the limelight but still, they need to maintain their record by inputting hard work.
The priorities are also changing in Pakistan with time, they are helpful as they are going to modify the support for Pakistani cricketers. The surprising maternity policy for the cricketers is supportive as they are getting one year of completely paid leave during maternity.
PCB is helping them by the financial support of increment every six months, category A may take 33% boost, category B may take 25% and category C may have 20%. Ideally, these are attractive features, so the women cricketers may gain confidence with time.
Breaking The Records
Women cricketers from Pakistan have played above 50 World Cups, which is more than enough for a developing country like Pakistan. These true faces of Pakistan are justifying that they belong to a country where the fertile soil is giving birth to the true inspirations for the world. T20 and many other relevant platforms can be supportive and helpful to keep the pace with time for women cricketers.
