Pakistan’s Bismah Maroof takes indefinite maternity go away as PCB mulls being pregnant provisions in contracts | Cricket

Pakistan batting allrounder Bismah Maroof is taking an indefinite break from cricket as she prepares to embrace motherhood. And the PCB is probably going to make use of the chance to introduce being pregnant provisions in its central contracts system for the primary time.

The PCB’s central contracts for its girls cricketers does not have any particular clauses protecting maternity leaves, however the board is now prone to amend the contracts to supply related assist to feminine cricketers within the nation. Maroof would, subsequently, proceed to earn her month-to-month retainer as per the PCB’s ‘A’ class contracts system and, on the time of absence, be eligible for all medical perks, turning into the primary participant to profit from the brand new being pregnant provision.

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The designated Pakistan captain, Maroof, 29, final performed a global match in February final 12 months, throughout the T20 World Cup in Australia. She had pulled out of the tours of South Africa and Zimbabwe earlier this 12 months owing to “household causes”, with Javeria Khan stepping in as captain.

Maroof is Pakistan’s second-most-capped girls’s participant in ODIs, with 108 appearances in opposition to her title, with Sana Mir main the record with 120. Within the ODI run chart, too, Maroof is second along with her tally of 2602 runs, after Khan’s 2693. In T20Is, Maroof 108 appearances is most by a Pakistani girl and she or he is the highest run-scorer amongst them with a tally of 2225.

The tour of Africa stays Pakistan’s solely project for the reason that Covid-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic in early March final 12 months. The PCB not too long ago known as up a gaggle of 26 nationwide girls cricketers for a abilities and health camp in Karachi as part of their preparation for a proposed tour of Sri Lanka subsequent month. The probables are resulting from assemble within the metropolis on Saturday for a seven days of quarantine earlier than the 15-day camp will formally begins on April 24.

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