New Delhi: Thirteen months ago, Pakistani captain Bismah Maroof was preparing to say goodbye to cricket and embrace motherly.
Come on March, he will be the spearhead of the Pakistani campaign at the World Cup in New Zealand, a comeback he hopes to inspire women’s cricket in his homeland and so on.
His family and love support for the game is very important but the 30-year-old said he owed his return to the parent support policy introduced by Pakistani Cricket Board (PCB) last year.
“I have no clarity about my future at that time.
It seems like everything is over,” Maroof told Reuters from Karachi.
“Then I spoke with PCB management and (coach) David Hemp.
They told me ‘you can return.
The players in Australia, New Zealand and England are back’ (from motherhood).” Maroof is the first recipient of a new PCB policy entitled for 12 months after paid leave and a guaranteed contract extension.
He will also have support his mother – in New Zealand to help keep his child so he can focus on cricket.
“Without a policy, I might come out of the game now,” said The Batting All-Rounder.
“Now I can travel with my daughter, and with my mother around, I can focus on cricket who knows my child in a safe hand.” My husband had become a big support, he continued to tell me, I could return to the match and inspired others.
“” Maroh said he was in the “big room” and close to regaining his peak fitness in front of the opening March 6 Pakistan against India on Mount Maunganui in a tournament, the team so far struggling in.
“We have not reached the semifinals.
If we can achieve that, it will be a big achievement for us.” In the past, we have performed individually but did not get results as a team.
But we have a good squad now and we will try our best to enter semifi.
“Media’s social optimism came from the changes he saw in Pakistani cricket since his debut in 2006.
Along with the standard of cricket, he also saw how the stature of the women’s cricket grew on The country, something he attributes with social media.
“There was no social media at the time, and no one knew us,” Veteran said from 216 international matches.
“Now everyone treats us equivalent to cricketers men.
The recognition we got there was very big.
We have become a role model for others.
It’s a big, big change.
“This could be a two-edged sword and Maroof suggested his teammates to avoid social media during the World Cup.” Of course sometimes they (followers) make a hard comment, but that’s how social media.
“During T20 World Cup in Australia (in 2020), I learned lessons that we should not use social media while touring and during large tournaments.
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