New Delhi: Star India Opener Smriti Mandhana strongly believes that cricket in the country has sufficient depth to the introduction of the six team IPL, which can then help in increasing the strength of the bench for the national side.
The 25-year-old stylish mixture said the quality of domestic players has increased in the game of men since the emergence of the Twenty20 league and the same thing can be a case of women’s cricket.
“There are the same number of countries for men and women.
So, when they started IPL men, there are the same number of countries.
But the quality is higher and higher because the years have passed,” Madhana said on the YouTube channel Ravichandran Ashwin.
“What is me now, it’s not the same 10 or 11 years ago.
I think it’s the same for women’s cricket.
We have the same number of girls playing cricket.” For now, I think we will have five or six good teams.
To start and may grow up to eight teams in one or two years.
But until the moment we don’t start, we don’t know, “he added.
Mandhana felt the league could give a woman the right type of exposure needed to improve their game.” Five teams, we are fine going together.
But eight teams, I was still not sure how it would look.
But I think we really need to start with five or six teams so we can really reach eight teams soon.
“I think until we don’t start, we don’t provide exposure to our girls to change their cricket to a very different level,” he said.
Mandhan said the big Bash Women’s league has led to an increase in the strength of the Australian team’s bench, something that can be replicated in India with Women’s IPL.
“I played in Big Bash four years ago and now the quality is very different.
You can see that in Cricket Australia where they have 40-50 Cricketers ready to play international cricket every day.” So, I really want it to happen in Indian crickets.
I think IPL will play a big role in that, “added Mandhana.
Currently BCCI held a T20 Women’s challenge featuring three teams – trailblazer, supernovas, and speed.