Star India opener Smriti Mandhana firmly believes that cricket within the nation has sufficient depth for the beginning of a six-team girls’s IPL, which can assist enhance bench power for the nationwide aspect.
The 25-year-old fashionable batsman mentioned the standard of home gamers has improved within the males’s sport because the creation of the Twenty20 league and the identical could possibly be the case with girls’s cricket.
“There are equal number of states for men and women. So, when they started the men’s IPL, there were an equal number of states. But as the years passed the quality got higher and higher,” Madhana mentioned on Ravichandran Ashwin’s YouTube channel.
“The IPL that’s there right this moment will not be what it was 10 or 11 years in the past. I feel it’s the identical for girls’s cricket. We have the identical variety of women enjoying cricket.
“For now, I think we’ll have a good five or six teams to start with and probably grow to eight teams in a year or two. But until we start, we don’t know,” she mentioned.
Mandhana feels that the league may give girls the proper of publicity which is required to enhance their sport.
“Five-six groups, it’s good to go together with us. But eight groups, I’m nonetheless unsure what that will appear like. But I feel we actually want to begin with 5 or 6 groups in order that we will get to eight groups actually quickly.
“I think until we start, we are not risking our girls to take their cricket to a different level,” she added.
Mandhan mentioned that the Women’s Big Bash League has improved the Australian group’s bench power, which may be replicated with the Women’s IPL in India.
“I performed in Big Bash 4 years in the past and now the standard could be very completely different. You can see that in Cricket Australia the place 40-50 cricketers are able to play worldwide cricket on any given day.
“So, I really need that to occur in Indian cricket. I feel IPL will play a giant position on this.
Currently BCCI hosts a Women’s T20 Challenge consisting of three groups – Trailblazers, Supernovas and Velocity.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
