Four Pakistani Women To Attend ACC Cricket Coaching Course
Zeeshan Mehtab Published October 15, 2019 | 12:41 PM
The involvement and participation of Pakistani women in mainstream cricket continues to increase as four women have registered for a three-day ACC Level 1 Women Coaching Course being held here from October 17-19
LAHORE, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 15th Oct, 2019 ):The involvement and participation of Pakistani women in mainstream cricket continues to increase as four women have registered for a three-day ACC Level 1 Women Coaching Course being held here from October 17-19.
Women registered for the first step in future coaching roles include Abbottabad's Atika Sabir Khan, Lahore's Fareeha Mahmood, Shehla Bibi from Wah Cantt and Tasleem Bano from the Gaizer district of Gilgit Baltistan.
Fareeha is a current Pakistan international who featured in three T20Is against Sri Lanka in March 2018. Other participants in the course, first of its kind, include representatives from Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bhutan, Hong Kong, Iran, Kuwait (two), Malaysia, Maldives, Oman (two) and United Arab Emirates.
Ali Zia, Senior General Manager,National Cricket Academy, and also a course instructor course said on Tuesday,"We have already organized two Level-2 courses in the past. The feedback given by ACC to PCB was commendable and it was marked as the best-ever organized so far".
"There is a certain standard set for the course, the participants will gain great benefit from the course, as it will provide them with an opportunity to go back to their countries and train young girls",he added.
"The ACC's Test playing countries are always there in development of the associate countries and will continue to play an active role in future", said the PCB official.
Sultan Rana, ACC's Events and Development Manager, said: "ACC is working with its member countries in the development of the game in the region. The ACC takes pride in hosting its inaugural women's level-1 course at NCA. The initiative was taken in the ACC's Development Committee meeting, which was chaired by Chairman PCB Mr Ehsan Mani".
"Our purpose is to encourage more girls in this game, and the course will provide an opportunity to inspire them. It will also help the participants to go back to their homeland and play a part in the development of women's cricket", he added.
ACC Level 1 Women's Coaching Course (in alphabetical order, country in brackets): Atika Sabir Khan (Pakistan),Awatif Alqallaf (Kuwait),Dechen Wangmo (Bhutan),Elnaz Parvin (Iran), Emylia Eliani Binti Md Rahim (Malaysia), Fareeha Mahmood (Pakistan),Khadija Khalil (Kuwait), Mariyam Zoona (Maldives),Meera Bhanushali (Oman), Nawal Tahir Muhammad (Bahrain), Shamila Chathurika Ananda (UAE), Shanzzen Shahzad (Hong Kong), Shazia Rahman Zazai (Afghanistan), Shehla Bibi (Pakistan), Tasleem Bano (Pakistan) and Vaishali Jesrani (Oman).
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