Cricket Namibia has introduced professional contracts for ten women’s cricketers, making it the primary sports activities governing physique within the nation to have contracts for each its males’s and women’s nationwide groups. The contracts had been negotiated and signed in February however introduced solely on Tuesday.
“For the primary time, we’ve been ready to professionalise the women’s recreation. It is a important second for sports activities within the nation. It is the primary time girls have been signed on contracts the place cricket is their occupation,” Cricket Namibia chief government Johan Muller mentioned in assertion printed by the ICC. “Ten girls now have the chance to assist their households by pursuing their ardour. We wish to thank Capricorn Group [the sponsors of the women’s team] and everybody concerned.”
The worth of the contracts and different particulars haven’t been made public.
The contracted players are: Kayleen Inexperienced, Sune Wittmann, Arrasta Diergaardt, Edelle van Zyl, Bianca Manuel, Irene van Zyl, Wilka Mwatile, Mekelaye Mwatile, Naomi Benjamin and Saima Tuhadeleni.
The Namibia women’s crew, referred to as “Capricorn Eagles”, are presently seventeenth within the ICC Women’s T20I crew rankings, their greatest place to date. They had been most not too long ago in motion on the African Video games, the place they received simply certainly one of their group-stage video games and failed to qualify for the semi-finals.
