Meet the Team: Uzma Iftikhar – USA National Player and International Competitor, Leading Aspire Cricket’s Mission
Up next in Aspire Cricket's Meet the Team series is Uzma Iftikhar!
Uzma is an off-spin bowling all rounder who has played for the USA National Women's Team and is also an ICC Certified Level 1 Coach.
She loves mentoring young cricketers and introducing the game to new people. Through Aspire Cricket, Uzma hopes to pay forward her years of experience in international play by making quality mentorship and training more accessible to girls and women and to improve the popularity of the sport overall in the USA.
Uzma has been a heavy-hitter on the American cricket scene and is just getting started. We are lucky and grateful to have her on the Aspire Cricket Team!
Check out Uzma’s bio, below:
Uzma’s love for cricket began at the age of 5 while playing with the boys in the streets of Karachi, Pakistan. After relocating to Toronto, Canada she continued playing tennis ball cricket in the park with her cousins using a bat she made at school. As a young adult, she became curious about opportunities in women’s hardball cricket and was able to connect with a few girls at her local nets. From there, she found her way to the Canadian National Women’s Team training squad and enjoyed two years of cricket training and experience.
In 2015, Uzma relocated to the USA and immediately began looking for opportunities to continue playing cricket. She started in local cricket associations before being selected for the USA National Women’s Team in 2017. One of Uzma’s proudest moments playing for the USA National Team was defeating Canada in the 2019 ICC Americas Tournament where her contributions to the win earned her Player of the Match.
Uzma’s lifelong love for and commitment to the game of cricket, along with her experience playing for the USA National Women’s Team, makes her a natural leader in the cricket community. She loves nothing more than sharing her passion for the game and hopes to inspire, mentor and lead current and future generations of female cricketers in the USA.
