BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia mentioned the board stays dedicated to selling ladies’s red-ball cricket and is working in the direction of rising the variety of Take a look at matches and multi-day video games within the home circuit. Talking after India’s document chase in opposition to Australia within the Girls’s ODI World Cup semi-final, Saikia praised the staff led by Harmanpreet Kaur for his or her outstanding efficiency and mentioned the rising help for girls’s cricket is obvious. “The BCCI is firmly dedicated in the direction of rising the variety of Take a look at matches for girls in addition to rising the quantity of multi-day video games on the home degree,” Saikia informed PTI. “Principally, ladies are enjoying extra white ball cricket — T20Is and ODIs. About three years again, India re-started enjoying multi-days (Take a look at) cricket with Australia, New Zealand, England additionally. When Jay Shah was the secretary of BCCI, he took particular initiative to advertise ladies’s Take a look at cricket. So we now are enjoying Take a look at matches.” Saikia acknowledged the necessity to strengthen the home construction with longer-format tournaments to assist gamers adapt to Take a look at cricket. “On the senior degree, we should have extra multi-day tournaments, that’s one space the place we’ve to work out. All our home tournaments are primarily both T20 or 50-over matches. Perhaps we must introduce some tournaments having multi-days competitors similar to the Ranji Trophy for the lads,” he mentioned. On India’s schedule going ahead, Saikia added, “Already we’re enjoying Take a look at matches in opposition to England and Australia however we should discover a technique to embody multi-day matches in all bilateral collection.” The BCCI official additionally mirrored on the influence of the Girls’s Premier League (WPL), crediting it for altering the panorama of ladies’s cricket in India. “When WPL was launched in a really skilled method with plenty of sponsorship, viewership, tv and digital platforms, there was a paradigm shift within the ladies’s cricket in India,” he mentioned. Saikia additional acknowledged {that a} World Cup victory may elevate the sport to new heights. “Now if we win this trophy, it could possibly undoubtedly have the identical influence of 1983. Already ladies’s cricket has made a mark however this can additional take them to a better place,” he mentioned.

He additionally famous the overwhelming response at DY Patil Stadium, calling it an indication of how far the ladies’s recreation has come. “It was a packed stadium in DY Patil, which was not quite common earlier. It has given plenty of quantity to the longer term success of Indian ladies’s cricket,” Saikia mentioned.