{"id":15994,"date":"2020-12-31T06:32:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T07:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=15994"},"modified":"2020-12-31T08:01:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T08:01:59","slug":"uks-new-year-honors-pakistan-born-salma-bi-rewarded-for-her-services-in-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=15994","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s New Year Honors: Pakistan-born Salma Bi rewarded for her services in sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Salma-Bi.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>London: Salma Bi has been honored\u00a0with a British Empire Medal for her services to cricket and diversity in sport in this year\u2019s New Year\u2019s Honours list.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Salma is a coach\u00a0and one of cricket\u2019s first South Asian female umpires here in the UK. She is also the first British Muslim woman to play county cricket\u00a0for Worcestershire and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).<\/p>\n<p>Salma launched a coaching organization in 2012 called \u2018Believe in Making A Difference [MAD]\u2019 to give women and girls cricket and disability sports a greater platform.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, she received an award for \u2018Outstanding Achievement\u2019 at the British Asian Sports Awards and then followed up with the inaugural Sports Award at the 2012 Asian Women of Achievement Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old, who was born in Pakistan, juggles umpiring with coaching, fundraising and working full-time as a Haemodialysis Nurse\u00a0based at the Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham and being the mother of three young children.<\/p>\n<p>ECB chief executive officer Tom Harrison said that &#8220;Salma deserves recognition for her\u00a0what she\u2019s done for cricket and diversity in sport. She\u00a0is a true inspiration who has brought cricket into the lives of so many women and girls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>London: Salma Bi has been honored\u00a0with a British Empire Medal for her services to cricket and diversity in sport in this year\u2019s New Year\u2019s Honours <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=15994\" title=\"UK\u2019s New Year Honors: Pakistan-born Salma Bi rewarded for her services in sport\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15996,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994\/revisions\/15996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}