The opening: Delhi Capitals’ captain Meg Lanning (L), Mumbai Indians’ captain Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Smriti Mandhana (2R), Gujarat Giants’ captain Beth Mooney (2L) and UP Warriorz captain Alyssa Healy (R) pose with the trophy throughout the opening ceremony of 2023 Women’s Premier League (WPL) at the DY Patil Stadium, Mumbai.
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The world of cricket has taken a major step in the direction of gender equality with the begin of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) in Mumbai on March 4, 2023. It’s a game-changer for women’s cricket in India as the 21-match event is a wonderful alternative for Indian women cricketers who desperately want publicity. It’s a chance for each younger debutants and senior gamers, who haven’t but had the probability to show themselves on the discipline, to showcase their skills and discover a place in the Indian women’s cricket group.
However, their journey wasn’t simple. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) didn’t come up with the WPL in a rush. It was a results of the persistently bettering efficiency of Indian women in cricket. In 2018, the BCCI performed the Women’s T20 Challenge, which featured two groups — Trailblazers and Supernovas — led by star Indian gamers Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur, respectively. The event continued in the following years till 2022, with a brand new group added in 2019.
In October 2022, the BCCI carried out a ‘pay equity policy’ for its contracted women cricketers and raised their match charges to match that of their male counterparts. This is a reputable transfer in the direction of gender equality in cricket and gives monetary assist to women gamers who’ve damaged many glass ceilings to search out their place in Indian cricket. The WPL event, with the publicity and financial compensation it provides, is a much-needed morale booster for women gamers. It’s a platform for women to show their mettle and showcase their expertise
.India’s first women’s T20I match was held on August 5, 2006, in Derby, England. The women’s group managed to limit the English aspect to a rating of 107/8 in 20 overs, and Rumeli Dhar scored a half-century (66 runs). India marked its first victory in opposition to England in its debut T20 match, scoring 109/2.
Since then, the Indian women’s cricket group has come a good distance. While there was a gradual upward trajectory in their efficiency, it wasn’t till 2014 that the group might rating above 150. On March 30, 2014, Harmanpreet Kaur scored a clear 77 off 59 balls, as India triumphed in opposition to Bangladesh at 151/5.
Over the years, the variety of T20 matches performed by the Indian women’s group has persistently elevated, and it peaked in the newest season with 23 worldwide T20 matches performed, the highest ever. This improve in matches performed has mirrored in the scoring charge of the group, with the runs per over (RPO) and limits scored by the group seeing a major rise
.India recorded its highest T20I rating to this point, 198/4 in 20 overs, on March 25, 2018. However, regardless of Mithali Raj’s half-century (53 runs) and Smriti Mandhana’s 76 runs, India misplaced the match to England, who scored 199/3 in 18.4 overs, due to Danielle Wyatt’s outstanding century (124 runs).
India’s second-highest T20I rating of 194 runs got here in a successful trigger in opposition to New Zealand in the identical yr. Harmanpreet Kaur made historical past on November 9, 2018, by changing into the first Indian girl to attain a century in the T20Is. She performed an unbelievable innings, hitting 103 runs off simply 51 balls and main India to a victory in opposition to New Zealand. In the match, Harmanpreet smashed eight sixes and 7 boundaries, displaying impeccable batting abilities.
It’s price noting that the gap in the runs per over (RPO) between the men’s and women’s groups in T20 cricket has been repeatedly lowering. Over the final 4 seasons, India’s RPO in women’s T20 video games has been above seven, which is near the men’s RPO of 8.43 in the 2022/23 season.
Check out this story to know extra about the progress made by Indian women in the discipline of cricket
The pattern of narrowing variations may also be noticed in the common variety of boundaries scored per match by men and women in T20 cricket. In the 2008/09 season, the distinction was virtually eight, whereas in the newest season, it has decreased to virtually half, at 4.3.
Fortnightly figures
- 12.4% Is the development in India’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenues in February 2023 to over ₹1.49 lakh crore, with tax receipts from items imports rising 6% and home transactions alongside with providers imports yielding 15% extra, in comparison with a yr in the past. The gross GST kitty collected in February marks the twelfth successive month that month-to-month revenues have been over ₹1.4 lakh crore, though it was 5.06% decrease than January’s ₹1,57, 554 crore receipts.
- 16.8% The rise in India’s internet direct tax assortment to the touch ₹13.73 lakh crore, reflecting a slight dip in development over the previous month however reaching inside hanging distance of the Budget goal for this yr, with three weeks nonetheless to go. Gross collections stood at ₹16.68 lakh crore by Friday, 22.58% increased than the tax inflows in the corresponding interval of 2021-22. The uptick in internet Personal Income Tax collections continued to outstrip Corporate Income Tax flows, rising 20.73% year-on-year in comparison with a 13.62% improve in the latter.
- Only 1% of the bold goal of 1 crore individuals had been scanned for sickle cell illness in 2022-23 by the Health Ministry, in keeping with official information accessed by The Hindu from the National Health Mission’s portal for sickle cell illness. The Ministry plans to display screen seven crore individuals from 17 extremely affected States by 2025-26 as the nation seeks to get rid of the illness by 2047. Sickle cell illness is a genetic dysfunction in which the crimson blood cells of the affected person flip right into a sickle-shaped crescent cell, change into inflexible and sticky, and get clogged in the blood vessels, lowering the cell’s capability to hold oxygen. It causes excruciating ache and organ injury in affected sufferers.
- 6.44% was India’s retail inflation in February, remaining above the central financial institution’s 6% tolerance threshold for the second successive month and just about unchanged from 6.52% in January, as per the National Statistical Office. The value rise confronted by city customers inched up marginally from 6% in January to six.1% in February, whereas it eased fractionally for rural customers from 6.85% to six.72% in February. The Consumer Food Price Index rose 5.95% in February, only a tad decrease than the 6% recorded in January.
- 84,866 is the variety of posts mendacity vacant in six Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) like the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Border Security Force (BSF) in opposition to the complete sanctioned power of 10,05,520, the Rajya Sabha was knowledgeable. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai mentioned the recruitment of 31,785 personnel in the CAPFs has been carried out in the previous 5 months. The vacancies in the CAPFs are on account of retirements, resignations, promotion, demise, the new elevating of the battalion, creation of recent posts and so on, he added.
Chart of the week
The chart exhibits the quantity in ₹ every State bought for each rupee they contributed to the Central taxes in 2021-22. For each one rupee that Tamil Nadu provides the Centre, it will get again 29 paise. On the different hand, Uttar Pradesh will get ₹2.73, and Bihar will get again ₹7.06.
The Centre’s tax collections are pooled-in from States and part of it’s distributed amongst them, based mostly on the Finance Commission’s (FC) components. The Fifteenth Finance Commission’s (XVFC) components is skewed in favour of some States, ensuing in large inter-State variations. As the inhabitants is given the next weightage, it tilts the stability in favour of a few of the northern States. This has been a bone of rivalry between the Centre and the affected States.
Read extra about the friction between the States and the Centre on the income sharing components right here
Flashback
The newest Multiple Indicator Survey (MIS) has disputed the Central authorities’s declare in 2019 that each one Indian villages are open defecation-free (ODF). According to the MIS launched in March this yr, performed between January 2020 and August 2021, in 21.3% of rural households, a majority mentioned that they had no entry to any sort of latrine (personal, shared, public). The information level titled, “Another government survey debunks Swachh Bharat’s 100% ODF claim, count increases to four”, printed on March 15, 2023, confirmed the disparity between the authorities’s declare on open defecation-free villages in India and information from the authorities surveys performed throughout or after 2019.
The MIS survey is the fourth in the final 5 years to debunk the ODF declare. The information level titled, “Over 25% rural households defecate in the open in contrast to Swachh Bharat data”, printed on May 17, 2022, utilizing the information from the National Health Family Survey-5 (2019-21) confirmed how although the share has decreased over the years, one in 4 rural households continued to defecate in the open.
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