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Stage is set for a historical IPL exhibition match between Trailblazers led by Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur\u2019s Supernovas at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Tuesday and players believe it would be a stepping stone for the launch of a women\u2019s T20 league in the country.<\/p>\n
Leading women players like Kiwi Suzie Bates, Aussies Alyssa Healy, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt and England\u2019s Danielle Wyatt will be part of the game which will take place before the Qualifier 1 between Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is very exciting for all of us to be playing this exhibition match and thankful to BCCI for organising such a unique match and it is a stepping show to the IPL. And hopefully, we will put up a good show and audience and BCCI people will think of having a IPL,\u201d Mandhana told reporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone wants to put up a good show and bring women\u2019s cricket to the world. This is the first-ever match we will be playing with foreign players on Indian soil. Everyone is excited to part of this historical moment. We all are looking forward to put up a good show so that we can express ourselves in front of audience and BCCI that IPL will be good to watch also,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Mandhana believes that an women\u2019s IPL can take place with four teams but admits that there aren\u2019t enough players for an eight-team tournament. \u201cWell we cannot have eight teams, but we can have an IPL of 4-5 teams to start with, definitely not eight teams, not right now. \u201cFour to five teams, to start with is a good initiative, because when men\u2019s IPL started, first two seasons only foreigners scored and later on we started developing our bench-strength, you never know that same can happen with women\u2019s cricket. \u201cThrough IPL its easier to develop the bench-strength. The girls will be playing with all the foreign players along with us and they will learn much more quicker and the bench strength will be more quicker\u2026,\u201d explained Mandhana.<\/p>\n
Similarly, dashing batter Harmanpreet Kaur feels that the players were waiting for this kind of a match since a long time. \u201cWe are very excited and were waiting since a long time when we could play an IPL like tournament. We are happy that we have got an opportunity tomorrow and hopefully we will get a good match.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked whether India has players that could make up four teams for Women\u2019s IPL, Kaur answered positively saying, \u201cYes I do think.\u201d \u201cWe have 20 girls who are representing India \u2013 be it T20, 50 over apart from it there is India A team. We do have 30-35 girls. Everything else depends on tomorrow\u2019s match and how we get response from the public. And if there is good response, BCCI is very keen to form such a T20 tournament from next year. \u201cEarlier there were not many players. But last two years we have got tournaments and BCCI has organized camps, so now there 30-35 girls who can strictly focus on the League, it is starting tomorrow and in the years to come we can get a good tournament,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n
Kiwi Suzie Batez also feels that in the future Women\u2019s IPL could be a reality. \u201cJust so excited for all the girls to have an opportunity to play tomorrow and in the future we can have women\u2019s IPL and more players and more Indian players get an opportunity,\u201d she said. Batez admits that though it is an exhibition game, there will be a lot of nerves. \u201cSo there\u2019s going to be a lot of nerves. We want a really good game for cricket. But look, I\u2019m sure girls and going to be excited, and some girls are going to want to shine in the spotlight. \u201cThat\u2019s what we want to see. We\u2019ve seen it in the men\u2019s game, that players just love the hype and crowds getting into it and such things,\u201d she signed off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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