Shaz, a mother to two young children, was interested in joining the British'sports-watching culture. Her husband takes the children to Edgbaston to watch the men's games. She said that she wanted to go along to watch the Pakistani women play. This was her first visit to a stadium less than a kilometre from her home. However, she didn't think she'd ever walk into a stadium. The European Women's Champion football team beat Germany in the final. It's not like anybody stopped me. But watching Men's Cricket was not something I enjoyed. "But Indian women vs Pakistani women I didn’t want to miss at any," she says. She was outnumbered by at least five Indian families at Edgbaston. This is because a pool match is almost a guarantee. The Commonwealth Games hoped to make Sunday a blockbuster and draw the large Birmingham diaspora into the stadium. It was shockingly surprising how one-sided it turned out to be. The Indian crowd out-screamed the Pakistani crowds, just as their team dismissed Pakistan 8 wickets. India remained focused on their bowling plan and Shafali Viarma and Smriti Mandhana played a clinical game for an easy win with a view to advancement. Pakistan, without Nida Dar concussed, was unable to bat and got nicely rolled. For the Games, it was the excitement of getting on the seats that made this game significant. Women's cricket can also tease out the "family crowds" - children and women not always interested in cricket but are amazed that young women are willing to try their hand at team sport. Birmingham was the best city to target this South Asian base.
* More to Pak
Barney, a British Pakistani living in Worcestershire, is the founder of Kempsey, an Asian-only club. His daughter plays cricket for a girls' team that he is starting to put together. To learn how to grow his women’s team, he traveled to Birmingham with other members of his club, including Hindus and Sikhs. Because of the dress code, women are restricted from playing sports in our community. Cricket is played in full-clothes, which made it easier for me to encourage my daughter. It was great to see the Pakistan team play, and it showed my daughters that this is possible. Little girls have been watching men's teams for many years and are still avid fans. It's a different experience when they start playing. "Watching Harmanpreet (Kaur), (Smrit Mandhana) of India, and watching Nida dar, those are role models," Barney said. We do things together here, Indians and Pakistanis. We have friends from other countries, we socialise together, and we eat together. We also watch cricket together. "We can fill any stadium, so why don't we for the girls?" Sana Mir, then Pakistani captain, said that Pakistan won the Asian Games gold in 2010. She also stated that Sana Mir was the reason that Pakistan realized that women could succeed in sport. Although the follow-up did not materialize, T20 cricket was the best option for a nation devoid of top-level sportswomen. Malala Yousufzai, Nobel laureate, visited the Pak dressing rooms after the loss to Barbados and a large crowd watched both role models in education and sport from close up. "Women's Cricket deserves to be a popular sport by itself," says Shaz. Shaz says, "I came to the Games because it was women and India Pakistan."
* We won the fight: Harman
It may still be necessary to hyphenate with Pakistan in Birmingham, the general cheer of Games, but the sheer number of Indian fans who came out on Sunday hoping to catch Harman's blinder was incredible. Although the Indian captain's win against Australia in the World Cup semifinal 2017 is legendary, Harman revealed that there was another fight women had won. When I first started playing cricket, there were no crowds. It was a fight we would have to win to get people to watch us. They can't just support "women" as a reason. We had to entertain and perform, play well and win to attract people. "Now I can say that we are doing this," she would reply. Young girls would come up to her and say they wanted to be like her. She says, "It's nice when they tell us that they love cricket." While the crowd was partisan, it was appreciated the good cricket played by both sides. "India or Pakistan? I want my daughter learn from both. It's not enough for women to cheer on the men's team from the stands. They must be cheered and out in the middle, hitting big sixes
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