By Vir B. Lumicao
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| SCC Divas pose for picture after receiving their second championship trophy on Jun 21 |
SCC Divas may be the only all-Filipino women’s cricket team
in the world, says its manager, but it still known in Hong
Kong as a group made up of domestic workers.
Manager Animesh Kulkarni says his ultimate goal is to make
the team known simply as Filipinas, not as domestic helpers. He also plans to
have one of the SCC Divas players drafted into the Hong
Kong national team within the next three years.
“We will continue to admit and train Filipinas who want to
join the team as our contribution to Hong Kong
cricket. But my ultimate goal is make you known not a team of domestic helpers
but of Filipinas,” Kulkarni told the team after the awarding.
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| Kulkarni and Parameswaran |
SCC Divas was crowned champions for the second-year running
in its division in Hong Kong . The team ruled
Cricket Hong Kong’s Women’s Development League for the second consecutive year via
a clean sweep of the four-team division in the 2018-2019 season that ended in
April.
Cricket Hong Kong handed
the trophy to the SCC Divas’ founder-captain Josie Arimas and vice-captain
Jennifer Alumbro at the Awarding Night in Regal Oriental on Jun 21. Kulkarni said he wants to attract Hong
Kong resident Filipinas to play for Divas.
“We are now starting,” Kulkarni said when asked about when
he is going to tap into the Filipino resident community to boost the team.
Assistant manager Chandrasekhar Parameswaran said the team
had become a platform in the past two years for attracting more Filipinas to
cricket.
“We’ve got a good pool of 30 to 50 players from the Philippines
Kulkarni praised Hong Kong-based SCC Divas as unique in that
it is the only Filipina team in the whole world, there being no other team of
Filipina cricketers in India ,
England , Australia , New Zealand
“SCC Divas is the only team in the world for the associate
or regular members (of the International Cricket Council) having an
all-Filipina team. Other development we are starting, but we will carry on and
we will go global,” said Kulkarni.
Kulkarni told the team after the awarding that he is trying
to arrange matches for them against the Philippine women’s cricket team in Manila
His statement ties in with plans for bilateral and
trilateral tournaments in December at the Philippine Cricket Association ground
in Dasmariñas City ,
Cavite
Khan said some of the Divas players would be drafted into
the Philippine national team that will play the Korean, Vietnamese and Singapore
Kulkarni said that SCC Divas played better in the recently
ended season than in their maiden season that closed in 2018.
“Very good improvement and we are hoping that next year will
be much better than this year,” said Kulkarni.
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