“India continues to lead the way with regards to women’s cricket. The values brought in for the WPL teams reiterates the potential of women’s cricket. It also suggests the availability of potential investors in women’s cricket, particularly in South Asia. There’s a lot of development required in value of women’s cricket in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. It’s much better than what it was 18 months ago. What happened in India is a catalyst to drive women’s cricket. The landscape is going to look different in the coming months,” ICC General Manager Cricket, Wasim Khan mentioned throughout a media interplay on Wednesday.
ICC’s efforts to advertise the ladies’s recreation was underlined by the report attendance on the Women’s T20 World Cup last at Melbourne Cricket Ground in 2020. With the newest version of the occasion as a result of begin from Feb 10, the world physique is glad how the inaugural Women’s U-19 WC was acquired.
In a bid to strengthen the ladies’s recreation, ICC is taking a look at a high-performance technique within the subsequent cycle of Future Tours Programme (FTP).
“We are looking at a high performance strategy which will be supporting a lot of the lower level full members but also associate members to close the gap in standard. The U-19 tournament also enables us to close the gap with senior women’s matches and also improve the standard,” Khan mentioned.
“In the next FTP cycle, we are focusing on ‘A’ team tours and full member tours where full members can actually play the associate members on their way back from full tours in full member nations,” he added.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com