LAHORE, Sept 29: The president of the defunct Pakistan Women Cricket Association (PWCA) Shirin Javed has said that PCB Women Wing did not take her group into confidence while taking decisions despite the fact that an understanding had been reached between them.

Shirin said that when the PCB appointed Dr Mira Phailbus as the president of its women wing, her group raised no objection for the sake of promotion of women’s cricket.

The PCB Women Wing, she claimed, offered her group to work as Punjab body with Ms Aitzaz as president but then they were completely ignored when Lahore’s team was selected for the national championship.

“We accepted the offer in the larger interest of women cricket because we always wanted the seed that we had planted to grow into a tree,” Shirin added.

She said that her group promoted the game during the hard times of Zia’s martial law when ‘chaddar and chardewari’ was being strictly observed in Pakistan.

But women like Apa Hameeda, Buhsra Aitzaz, Bushra Mateen and she endeavoured to attract women towards the game.

Shirin said the appointment of Dr Mira was a total surprise for them because she had no background in national cricket.

She claimed that Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyay M. Khan was himself ignorant about the true promoters of the game and thus appointed Dr Mira.

When contacted Dr Mira admitted that her women wing had offered Bushra Aitzaz to run Punjab Women Cricket Association but later the deal could mate not materialise because the board had adopted the new system of regions in place of associations.