Purple-ball cricket for ladies will make a return to India’s home calendar after six years when the BCCI conducts its Senior Girls’s Inter-Zonal Multi-Day Trophy in Pune from March 28. It was in 2018 {that a} home red-ball event – of two-day matches – was final held in India for ladies.
This comes not lengthy after India performed – and gained – back-to-back one-off Exams in opposition to England and Australia in December 2023. India had additionally performed Exams on their excursions of England and Australia in 2021, however you need to return all the way in which to 2014 for the earlier occasion of India taking part in a ladies’s Take a look at, and a ladies’s Take a look at being held in India, when South Africa had toured.
The matches can be hosted by the Maharashtra Cricket Affiliation, with the East Zone vs North East Zone and West Zone vs Central Zone fixtures kicking off the motion. North Zone and South Zone have been positioned within the semi-finals straightaway and can meet the winners of the primary two video games from April 3. The ultimate can be performed from April 9. All of the matches can be three-day affairs.
The event will start simply over ten days after the ultimate of the continued second version of the WPL slated for March 17 in Delhi.
On the time, she had expressed hope that the BCCI would contemplate restarting the ladies’s home red-ball competitors, saying, “Because the variety of Exams enhance, we might even see a brand new home event for long-form cricket. Home construction is all the time in line with worldwide calls for.”
