Sudeep Pakrashi:
Amidst the ongoing misery the club has been passing through after a huge financial set-back with the men’s football team, Mohammedan Sporting top brass found a motivation from their women’s cricket team’s T-20 title on Friday.
Mohammedan Sporting Club clinched the CAB Women’s Club Cricket League T20 title after a thumping 46-run victory over Aryan Club via a higher run rate in the summit clash at the Eden Gardens on Friday.
When asked for his reaction to the issue, the club’s vice president, Qamaruddin, commented, “Amidst the ongoing crisis, it has been undoubtedly an inspiring success. I believe our financial crisis will also be solved soon, and the football affairs will also bounce back soon.” It has been the fourth consecutive CAB women’s T-20 title for the women’s cricket team.
The coach Azhar Baba can be called an ‘unsung hero’ for building the team. The 30-year-old coach who still plays for Calcutta Port Trust boasts of the support he got from the club. “I should thank the club’s president, Kamaruddin, the vice-president, and other senior officials including Nasim Bhai who now looks after the club’s cricket affairs, and Belal Ahmed for their utmost support.”
Significantly, at a time when the club’s footballers have bbeen deprived of their salaries, the women cricketers already obtained their salaries acording to contracts. The budget is nearly Rs 15 lakh to run the women’s team and the officials deserve the credit to arrange the needed amount, donating from own pockets. Even, they were given prizes also for winning the T-20 league at a function organized by the club on Sunday.
Azhar who has been coaching the women cricketers for the last four years and is also in charge of the club’s women’s cricket development program also feels proud of two more achievements the women’s cricket development program has earned. “Four of our women cricketers took part in the recently concluded-WPL for different teams. Secondly, the greater number of young, promising girls from the Muslim community are coming to our training center to learn the game and become a professional cricketer in the future, “Azhar concluded.
