In what has come as an enormous enhance for the ladies cricketers in India, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has handed No-Objection Certificate (NOC) to India’s T20I skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, deputy Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues and Deepti Sharma to take part in the inaugural version of The Hundred.
A BCCI official confirmed the event and stated that the gamers would profit rather a lot from being part of the league that’s being organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board.
“We have given NOC to four players and they are Harmanpreet, Smriti, Jemimah and Deepti. It should be a good experience for these players to go and be part of this new league,” the official advised ANI.Â
The Hundred, which is an ECB brainchild, will feature eight groups taking up one another. The first match in the competitors might be performed between the ladies’s groups of Oval Invincibles and Manchester Originals on July 21. With the BCCI granting NOCs, the keep of the Indian ladies gamers might be prolonged in the UK because the group is ready to play one Test, three ODIs, and as many T20Is in June-July this 12 months.
Harmanpreet, Smriti, Jemimah and Deepti had been the Indian gamers who had performed in the now-defunct Kia Super League (KSL), ECB’s home T20 match. During South Africa’s tour of India, Smriti had stated that BCCI and ECB are in contact relating to NOCs for The Hundred.
The inaugural season of The Hundred was set to be performed final 12 months, but it surely acquired postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Hundred is a 100-ball cricket competitors that can see distinguished gamers (each males and ladies) that includes in the match later this 12 months in the English summer time.Â
