Revealed on: Jan 31, 2023
India Ladies’s captain Harmanpreet Kaur has asserted that the Ladies’s Premier League (WPL) will result in the emergence of loads of younger and promising cricketers. The inaugural season of the WPL, which is about to start in March, may have 5 groups representing Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi and Lucknow.
Sharing her views forward of the inaugural WPL, Harmanpreet is hopeful that the event will do for girls’s cricket what the Indian Premier League (IPL) did for males’s cricket. She mentioned, “We have now seen in males’s cricket, how they improved after the IPL. The emergence of expertise that now we have seen in males’s cricket will be seen in girls’s cricket (After the WIPL). It should be very well-known worldwide, not simply in India. We’ll see loads of younger expertise due to the event.”
The hard-hitting batter added that the WPL also can act as a bridge to scale back the hole between home and worldwide cricket since native gamers will get an opportunity to mingle with worldwide stars. Harmanpreet continued, “The hole between home and worldwide cricket will be reduce down. It is very troublesome for a younger participant to straightaway come into the group (from home cricket) and face these hurdles in worldwide cricket. Gamers will begin feeling prepared for worldwide cricket.”
Shifting focus to the Indian group, the skipper mentioned that they wish to play constructive and attacking cricket, regardless of the circumstances or surfaces on provide. The 33-year-old mentioned, “We have now been attempting to play like this (attacking cricket) for a while now. I am actually happy that, now, lastly we’re seeing the outcomes.
“We frequently focus on in group conferences that now we have to play aggressive cricket. It would not matter how the pitch is behaving, now we have to stay constructive in our strategy,” she added.
Harmanpreet went on so as to add that the gamers within the group again their skills and have sure targets which they need to obtain. She concluded, “We have now to again our skills. We need to set sure targets whereas batting as a substitute of simply going with the movement. Beforehand, now we have been caught on the improper foot with that technique. We need to rectify that. We should be aware of our strike charge.”
In the meantime, India Ladies beat West Indies Ladies by eight wickets in match six of the tri-series in South Africa. Deepti Sharma claimed 3/11 as India held West Indies to 94/6. Jemimah Rodrigues scored an unbeaten 42 and Harmanpreet 32* as India romped dwelling in 13.5 overs.
–By A Cricket Correspondent
