Quote:20 high-school students have gathered in a gymnasium in Kurdistan to be taken through the basics by national coach Mahmood Rashid and by Mozhdeh Bavenpour.

Quote:Iran cricket, having regrouped themselves in alignment with their National Sports Council, and having evolved from the Iran Baseball-Cricket Federation into the Iran Cricket Association is on an upward trajectory. Iran already has more women coaches, umpires and players than any other Middle East country. The women, playing their first tournament since 2009, just missed out on a semi-final place in the 2013 ACC Women’s Championship and the (mostly very young) men finished fifth in the ACC Trophy Challenge at the end of 2012.