KARACHI, May 24: Omar Associates cricket team which is already in the mainstream of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) domestic circuit will launch its own women’s cricket team.

“We are shortly launching our plans to raise a women’s cricket team to promote the game among the womenfolk,” Director OmarAssociates Nadeem Omar said on Friday.

Omar Associates men’s team which lost the semi-final of Patron’s Trophy Grade-II this year, has done wonderfully well in a very shot time on domestic circuit.

Nadeem said Pakistan Cricket Board in their recent letter has expressed their desire of departmental teams raising their women cricket teams to create more opportunities for the women players.

He said in consultation with Omar Associates manager/chief coach Azam Khan, they will prepare plans to hold cricket trials for women at two centres of the country in the coming weeks.

“We might initially hold trials in Karachi and Lahore to induct probables for the women’s cricket team,” said Nadeem.

He said stipends will be given to all the girls who will be selected at the trials. —APP