Gearing up: India-A trains forward of its opening match towards India-C.
| Photo Credit: P.Ok. Ajith Kumar
Winter is slowly setting in on this industrial metropolis in central India. For Indian girls’s cricket, the cream of which has assembled right here, spring is probably not far behind.
It might nicely be only a few months away in truth: the inaugural Women’s IPL is probably going to be held subsequent March. The skilled league, which the ladies — not simply from India — have been awaiting for years, has the potential to remodel the sport within the nation.
The Senior Women’s T20 Challenger Trophy, which opens on the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh Stadium on Sunday, might be the most important marketplace for expertise scouts of the franchises which can be planning to personal the Women’s IPL groups. Much of the current and the way forward for Indian girls’s cricket can be in motion over the subsequent one week. The solely two massive names lacking are Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur.
Making up for the absence of two batting superstars are gamers like Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Yastika Bhatia and S. Meghana, all engaging strokemakers. India’s complete bowling line-up is right here too, so some fascinating duels between the likes of Shafali and Pooja Vastrakar, and Jemimah and Deepti Sharma could be count on.
Players have been cut up into 4 groups. After taking part in one another as soon as, the highest two will sq. off as soon as once more in a remaining on November 26.
Besides impressing the expertise scouts, the perimeter gamers might additionally attempt to make the Indian squad for subsequent month’s five-match T20 sequence towards Australia in Mumbai. There can be the Women’s T20 World Cup to be held in South Africa subsequent February.
“It is a great opportunity for the players, some of whom I am seeing for the first time,” mentioned Meghana. “All the girls are excited and looking forward to the Women’s IPL.”
On the opening day, India-A meets India-C and India-B faces India-D.
