Malala shows interest in buying a team in Pakistan Women's League: sources
Women's league is said to be played in October this year
LAHORE: The world's youngest Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has shown her interest in buying a team in Pakistan's first-ever women's cricket league, initially scheduled to take place in October this year.
Sources told Geo News that Malala, whose husband Asser Malik remained associated with Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), inquired bidding process for women's league teams. The social activist has approached the PCB management committee to express her interest in the women's league.
Malala is most likely to bid for a team in the women's league. Earlier, Malala also told former PCB chairman Ramiz Raja about her interest in the women's league. It must be noted here that Ramiz launched 'The Women's League' during the opening ceremony of the first-of-its-kind Pakistan Junior League (PJL) in October last year. The tournament was said to be played alongside Pakistan Super League (PSL) season 8.
However, the PCB management committee delayed the women's league and aim the October window for it.
Meanwhile, three women's exhibition matches were played during PSL 8 in Rawalpindi.
Two teams - Amazons and Super Women - locked horns in three matches which also featured 10 foreign cricketers. Bismah Maroof-led Amazons won the exhibition series 2-1.
Ireland’s Laura Delany, England’s quartet of Lauren Winfield-Hill, Maia Bouchier, Danni Wyatt, and Tammy Beaumont, Australia’s Tess Flintoff Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu, Jahanara Alam of Bangladesh and Lea Tahuhu of New Zealand also participated in the exhibition matches.
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