The President of the ICC announced at the conclusion of the eighth Women’s World Cup tournament held in South Africa that the International Women’s Cricket Council had merged with the ICC to help drive the development of the games among Women as well. For over two years the Women’s International Cricket Council and the ICC have been discussing this issue. The integration of women’s cricket was formally recognised by the ICC at the Annual Conference June this year, with the first formal ICC Women’s Cricket Committee meeting also held at the same time.
The ICC Women’s Cricket committee is headed by Betty Timmer, a former Vice Chairman of the International Women’s Cricket Association. She will make recommendations to the ICC on the development of Women’s Cricket around the world. ICC President conveyed his sincere thanks to the outgoing IWCC President and the many dedicated volunteers who have supported the development of the women’s game over the years.
In Asia, India is the first South Asian country to participate in Women’s International cricket. Women have been playing big league cricket in India since 1973. Another South Asian Country Sri Lanka officially formed its Women’s Cricket Association in 1996. The Sri Lanka Women Crickets took wing to India to participate in the Women’s World Cup held in India.
Even though Pakistan is strict regarding women freedom but still they have shown some kind of liberalism towards their women citizen and had reply to those criticizers who had always pointed their democracy. Similarly Bangladesh is the other South Asian countries to form Women’s Cricket Associations. By now, all these four South Asian nations have participated in International Women’s World Cup matches. Not only players but also spectators have shown huge supports. This augurs well for the Women cricketers as this will prompt the sponsoring companies to come forward.
