Emphasising the significance of lengthy format in girls’s cricket, India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur has referred to as for extra worldwide and home red-ball fixtures.
In the present Future Tours Programme (FTP) cycle that goes on from 2022-25, the Indian girls’s workforce will play the fewest variety of Test matches among the many 4 sides competing within the longest format.
“This year we have two Tests – one against England and one against Australia – and I hope those games can make a huge impact on women’s cricket and hopefully in the future we will keep getting more Test matches. We have to bring back Test matches in women’s cricket because it’s very important for women’s cricket,” Kaur mentioned on Sky Sports Cricket Podcast.
India is scheduled to play solely a few Test matches – each at house within the 2023-24 season towards England and Australia. Its final Test was in 2021 in Australia.
England will play probably the most variety of Tests – 5 – and Australia and South Africa 4 and three every.
“As a player, I definitely want more Tests because as a growing kid, we saw more Tests on TV than T20s. Nowadays, it’s a lot of fun playing T20s but Test cricket is something every cricketer wants to play.”
The swashbuckling batter mentioned that whereas the home scene is bettering within the nation, extra multi-day matches should be performed.
“Trust me, it has improved a lot. Initially when I started playing, we hardly got domestic games but for the last couple of years, domestic level has improved a lot. We are getting more games and some domestic games are live also, people can watch on TV.”
The inter-zonal three-day match and the inter-zonal Under-19 two-day match in 2017-18 was the final time red-ball occasions have been performed on the Indian girls’s home circuit.
“It is improving day-by-day but in my early days we used to play two-and three-day games which we are really missing, and I’m sure after these two Tests hopefully we’ll get two-day matches back. The more cricket we get, the more improvement we’ll see in women’s cricket. Hope to see some more talent in the Indian side,” Kaur mentioned.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com