BCCI to take visionary step to enhance women’s cricket
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After their recent success against England and Australia in Test cricket, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is evaluating various methods to enhance red-ball cricket among women. As per reports, the idea is to host multiple-day matches to bring new cricketers into the foray and to give others a chance to build their game to make it to the national team.
Notably, the governing body organizes List A, T20, and age group matches for women in India but multi-day matches stopped in 2018. They are now set to bring them back as the goal is to start three-day tournaments after the second edition of the Women’s Premier League (WPL), which is reportedly said to begin on the last week of February.
“It will be a three-day tournament to start with. Due to the constraint of time, we are thinking of starting with a zonal format initially. The tournament will be concluded in the month of March-April. We don’t have red ball cricket for the women’s team (currently) and the BCCI felt it’s time to start day’s cricket as well as domestic cricket for women,” a BCCI official told The Indian Express.
When you play the longer formats more, you learn to play proper cricketing shots: Diana Edulji
Former India skipper Diana Edulji stated that the cricketers will learn a lot from playing longer format games as it will help them play proper cricketing shots. She explained the importance of playing three-day, and four-day matches as the 67-year-old mentioned that cricketers will learn a lot about temperament by playing more red-ball games.
“The most important thing is to have a domestic three-day or four-day event. I feel you learn the temperament to stay at the wicket by playing more of this format, it is not that in T20 you just swing your bat around for a while. Even there, you need to understand how to learn to spend time in the middle. When you play the longer formats more, you learn to play proper cricketing shots. I request the BCCI to have at least one domestic tournament every year for the longer version. Skills will improve the more you play the longer version,” Edulji concluded.