LAHORE, Nov 27: Chairperson Mrs Shirin Javed and president Mrs Bushra Aitzaz of Pakistan Women Cricket Association (PWCA) on Friday urged the PCB chairman to defer holding the first women Asia Cup in Karachi in December.

Mrs Shirin and Bushra contended that the PCB had allocated an amount of Rs35m for the Asia Cup, despite the fact the Pakistan women’s team was not good enough.

PWCA suggested the PCB should use the amount in building up the national women infrastructure by arranging coaching on modern lines and claimed that the PCB formed the women wing with those who had no role in the past for women cricket.

“The women wing revolves around Mira Phailbus and her secretary Shamsa Hashmi, who is also acting as selector, captain, coach, umpire, accountant and a player as well.”

They alleged that Shamsa who is a lecturer at Toba Tek singh women’s college has obliged her college’s principal Sobahat by appointing her chief selector.

She had also appointed her PhD teacher, Dr Asghar Javed of Punjab University Sports Sciences dept as match referee/coordinator of the home series against India. Sobahat and Dr Asghar have no cricketing background, they claimed.

The selection was also unfair as talented girls like Shumaila Mushtaq, Sana Javed, Humaira Masroor, Sobahat Rashid and Kanwal were ignored.