[1] From an early age, she participated in a variety of sports, including basketball, gymnastics, judo, martial arts and swimming.
The national cricket board was targeting a number of schools to try to recruit girls to play the game.
[2] When Omar started out as a cricketer, she found that her first name, which is very common in the Arab world, created a difficulty.
[4] Although Omar, as a pupil of a Pakistani school, already had a vague awareness of the game, she neither understood the rules very much, nor knew how big it was.
[1] However, her coaches, Tariq Rasool and Tahir Khan, taught her all the cricket skills she needed,[2] and even advised her to learn about the game by watching it on television.
[4] Omar also trained for at least three hours daily,[2] and attended umpiring and coaching courses organised by Cricket Kuwait.
[2][4] She watched videos of matches at Sharjah Cricket Stadium, and AB de Villiers of South Africa became her hero.
[1] Secondly, and as Omar herself has put it, "Playing competitive sport is not a traditional role for women in the Middle East.
[1] Instead, her sisters conform to social expectations by enjoying cooking, fashion, shopping and socialising with friends at home,[1][2][5][6] and think that sports are for boys.
[1] In that context, Omar's father initially had difficulty in accepting her sporting aspirations,[6] especially as they had the potential to take her away from her family.
[3] Although he eventually came around,[1] he warned her that she would have to give up the game if it adversely affected her studies, and imposed a strict curfew of 9:00 pm, as in Arab culture it is not acceptable for girls to be out late.
[1][2] Omar's coaches in Kuwait, all of them Pakistanis or Indians, had already made her aware that Australia was arguably cricket's No 1 destination.
[4][14] During Omar's first Australian season, "I was completely out of my comfort zone, new to the country, culture and did not know my way around public transport.
[11] Ahead of the 2018/19 season, Omar was recruited by Dandenong, which wanted an experienced player to augment its young squad.
[8] At the end of her first season at Dandenong, she was part of a team including Sophie Molineux, Nicole Faltum and Kim Garth that defeated a Essendon Maribyrnong team including Strano, Wareham, Blows, and former Australian player Kristen Beams, in the Firsts T20 grand final.
Although she thought at that time that her cricket knowledge was not up to the mark, she had been hoping for the captain's role when she felt she was ready.
[2] The following year, 2014, Omar was player of the tournament at the GCC Women's T20 Championship in Oman, in which Kuwait finished second.
[31] In November 2021, Omar returned to the team for the ICC Women's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, but Tariq retained the captaincy.
[34] Kuwait's and Omar's next WT20Is were during the GCC Women's Gulf Cup, held in Muscat, Oman, in March 2022.
In a contest between six teams, Kuwait managed to finish in fourth place, with victories against both Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
[35] During the tournament, Omar once again played in all five of Kuwait's matches and topped the team's aggregates and averages, this time with 145 runs at 36.25.