Walk into any school in
India and you will see a group of boys playing cricket, organized or unorganized,
on the playground. Have you ever seen a bunch of girls playing this sport? My
guess is no. This is the defining point of the state of women’s cricket in
India. However to promote the sport among the fairer sex, inter-school girls
cricket tournament will be organized under the aegis of Mumbai Cricket
Association (MCA) in Jan-Feb 2016. This will be the 8th year when
the girls from different school across Mumbai will participate in a leather
ball cricket tournament. The tournament
will be of 20 overs each side. The schools are encouraged to send more than one
entry, provided that a single player can play only for one team.
In India, women’s cricket at the grassroot needs to be developed and
with MCA organizing such a tournament, it is just doing the needful. With the
BCCI applying some fairness cream to women’s cricket in India by way of giving
central contracts to women cricketers, the wheels of women’s cricket have
started rolling and are all set to go a long way.
All interested schools in Mumbai and Thane jurisdiction seeking
participation in the tournament are requested to submit their entries on school
letter head at the office of MCA during working hours or e-mail on
mcacrik@vsnl.com on or before 8th January 2016.
For more details please contact Ms. Veena Paralkar on cell no.
9321868833.
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