Printed on: Jan 31, 2023
India Ladies’s captain Harmanpreet Kaur has asserted that the Ladies’s Premier League (WPL) will result in the emergence of a number of younger and promising cricketers. The inaugural season of the WPL, which is about to start in March, may have 5 groups representing Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi and Lucknow.
Sharing her views forward of the inaugural WPL, Harmanpreet is hopeful that the event will do for ladies’s cricket what the Indian Premier League (IPL) did for males’s cricket. She mentioned, “We have now seen in males’s cricket, how they improved after the IPL. The emergence of expertise that we’ve seen in males’s cricket will be seen in ladies’s cricket (After the WIPL). It may be very well-known worldwide, not simply in India. We’ll see a number of younger expertise due to the event.”
The hard-hitting batter added that the WPL may also act as a bridge to scale back the hole between home and worldwide cricket since native gamers will get an opportunity to mingle with worldwide stars. Harmanpreet continued, “The hole between home and worldwide cricket will be reduce down. It is very troublesome for a younger participant to straightaway come into the staff (from home cricket) and face these hurdles in worldwide cricket. Gamers will begin feeling prepared for worldwide cricket.”
Shifting focus to the Indian staff, the skipper mentioned that they wish to play optimistic and attacking cricket, no matter the situations or surfaces on supply. The 33-year-old mentioned, “We have now been attempting to play like this (attacking cricket) for a while now. I am actually happy that, now, lastly we’re seeing the outcomes.
“We commonly talk about in staff conferences that we’ve to play aggressive cricket. It does not matter how the pitch is behaving, we’ve to stay optimistic in our method,” she added.
Harmanpreet went on so as to add that the gamers within the staff again their talents and have sure targets which they wish to obtain. She concluded, “We have now to again our talents. We wish to set sure targets whereas batting as an alternative of simply going with the movement. Beforehand, we’ve been caught on the unsuitable foot with that technique. We wish to rectify that. We must be conscious of our strike charge.”
In the meantime, India Ladies beat West Indies Ladies by eight wickets in match six of the tri-series in South Africa. Deepti Sharma claimed 3/11 as India held West Indies to 94/6. Jemimah Rodrigues scored an unbeaten 42 and Harmanpreet 32* as India romped house in 13.5 overs.
–By A Cricket Correspondent
