Pakistan ladies central contracts: Sidra Ameen, Muneeba Ali rewarded with promotions
Sidra Ameen and Muneeba Ali have earned promotions within the PCB’s new central contracts with Ameen promoted from Category C to A. She is one in all simply three ladies within the highest class of the PCB’s central contracts, with Nida Dar and Bismah Maroof retaining their locations in Category A. Muneeba, who scored Pakistan ladies’s solely T20 hundred on the World Cup earlier this yr, jumps up a class to B.
Javeria Khan and Anam Amin are among the many extra notable names to overlook out on a central contract, whereas Ayesha Naseem’s retirement sees her drop out, too. Aliya Riaz, who was one of many three gamers contracted within the highest tier, has been demoted to Category B, whereas Diana Baig, who spent a lot of the yr out with harm, falls a tier to C. Four gamers – Anoosha Nasir, Eyman Fatima, Shawaal Zulfiqar and Umm-e-Hani – have earned central contracts for the primary time – all of them positioned within the rising D class.
As with the lads’s central contracts, which proceed to be stricken with delays, important pay rises are constructed into the ladies’s contracts. Monthly retainers have elevated by a 3rd, whereas match charges will double within the ODI format, and improve by 50% in T20Is. The contracts will probably be backdated to August 1, and can run until 30 June 2025, for 23 months slightly than the same old yr.
“The extended contract duration reflects our anticipation of an action-packed international cricket calendar,” Tania Mallick head of girls’s cricket on the PCB, mentioned in an official assertion. “We want our women cricketers to be fully prepared, physically and mentally, to face every challenge and celebrate every triumph that comes their way.
“The substantial increment within the financial facet of our ladies’s central contracts displays our dedication to offering an atmosphere the place gamers can focus solely on their recreation. This additionally acknowledges the rising customary and affect of girls’s cricket globally.”
Pakistan’s subsequent sequence will probably be at dwelling in opposition to South Africa, who play three ODIs and three T20Is in Karachi in September.