Eyeing the Indian girls’s cricket workforce’s success within the two one-off Checks in opposition to Australia and England, the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) is keen to begin crimson ball home competitions for ladies post-WPL 2024. This was reported by the Indian information company Indian Specific. BCCI has not organized a single multi-day sporting occasion for ladies since 2018.
The richest cricket board on the earth conducts white ball home competitions for ladies yearly and in addition began with the Ladies’s Premier League final 12 months identical to the IPL for males. As per the report, BCCI is anticipated to begin with the ladies’s multi-day home competitors in March and April.
For the start, BCCI is more likely to begin with zonal competitions on this home season whereas, shifting ahead they’ll look into organizing a match like the lads’s Ranji Trophy. The zonal selectors will choose the gamers and the match may be anticipated to be of three days with the ultimate being a four-day occasion.
BCCI to begin crimson ball competitors for ladies: Experiences
A BCCI official whereas talking to Indian Specific stated, “It is going to be a three-day match to begin with. Because of the constraint of time we’re considering of beginning with zonal format initially. The match can be concluded within the month of March-April. We don’t have crimson ball cricket for the ladies’s workforce (at the moment) and the BCCI felt it’s time to begin day’s cricket in addition to home cricket for womens.”
Many cricket boards on the earth shouldn’t have any home red-ball competitors for ladies whereas solely India, Australia, and England are seen enjoying red-ball cricket.
Ladies’s cricket in India has grown very a lot in the previous few years because the efficiency of the Indian stars has additionally been sensible on the world stage. India have performed Checks in opposition to Australia and England on their dwelling soil and in addition gave robust competitions to the 2 giants of ladies’s cricket.
After Australia and England, India are seen to be the third largest workforce in girls’s cricket at the moment. Cricketers akin to Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Shafali Varma, and skipper Harmanpreet Kaur are a number of the high gamers of the current Indian girls’s cricket workforce.
With the beginning of the Ladies’s Premier League, many different proficient girls cricketers akin to Shreyanka Patil and Saika Ishaque got here into the limelight and they’re a number of the extremely proficient Indian girls cricketers who will certainly take the workforce ahead.
India have additionally carried out brilliantly in the previous few ICC tournaments, which embody the ultimate of the 2017 ODI World Cup and the 2018 T20 World Cup. India additionally certified for the ultimate of the Commonwealth Video games 2022 and the T20 World Cup 2023. Nonetheless, in all these tournaments, India haven’t been in a position to win a single trophy.
Although, India received gold within the 2023 Asian Video games and so they most likely have the character to win an ICC trophy as nicely. Nonetheless, India would now wish to deal with the upcoming editions of the T20 World Cup and ODI World Cup and can wish to break that knockout barrier and win their maiden ICC title.
