The recent One-off Test matches between the Indian women’s team and the BCCI ended in victories, and in March and April, the league will play red-ball cricket domestically.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has chosen to launch women’s days cricket in the months of March and April following the Indian women’s cricket team’s One-Off Test matches against England and Australia at home. Since 2018, there have been no domestic multi-day events for women on the richest cricket board in the world.
The Indian Board routinely organizes domestic white-ball cricket, which includes one-day and T20 matches. A few years ago, they also began offering age groups.
According to The news sources, the BCCI is considering starting day cricket after the Women’s Premier League (WPL), which is anticipated to take place in Delhi and Bengaluru starting on February 22.First off, the Indian Board may decide to hold a competition akin to the men’s Ranji Trophy in the future. The BCCI is expected to play days cricket in a zonal structure this season. A three-day league event will be held after the zonal selectors choose the zonal squad. However, the finals will take place across four days.
“To begin with, the event will last three days. We are considering starting with zonal format first due to time constraints. The finals of the event are scheduled for March or April. A BCCI official acknowledged to The news sources, “We don’t currently have red ball cricket for the women’s squad, and the BCCI believed it’s time to start day’s cricket as well as domestic cricket for womens.Red-ball domestic cricket for women is not offered by most major cricket boards worldwide because Test matches are infrequent—only India, Australia, and England have played recently and occasionally.
India is the nation that has had a domestic tournament lasting at least a day in cricket, according to statistician John Leather. “In the 2010s, India brought back for a brief period of time its multi-day women’s domestic cricket competition. From 2014–15 to 2017–18, the country played 10 inter-zonal matches annually (2-dayers in 2014–15 and 3-dayers in the remaining three seasons). The most recent such contest took place in 2018. A multi-day domestic contest has not been played in England since the Territorial competition in 1991. The finals series of the Australian Women’s Cricket Championship, which was a forerunner to the WNCL, took place in 1994–1995 and was the last multi-day women’s domestic cricket competition in Australia, according to Leather.
Over the past few years, women’s cricket has gained popularity domestically, and attendance at matches has increased. Since the WPL began last year, the BCCI has thought that the board should hold a domestic tournament so that women’s teams can also practice red ball cricket. India has triumphed easily in both of its Test matches against Australia and England.
