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The inter-zonal competition of 5 three-day matches will be played in Pune in between March 28 and April 11
India played 2 Test matches last December, in the house, and won both of them – Getty Images
Red-ball cricket for females will make a return to India’s domestic calendar after 6 years when the BCCI performs its Senior Women’s Inter-Zonal Multi-Day Trophy in Pune from March 28. It remained in 2018 that a domestic red-ball competition – of two-day matches – was last kept in India for females.
This comes not long after India played – and won – back-to-back one-off Tests versus England and Australia in December 2023. India had actually likewise played Tests on their trips of England and Australia in 2021, however you need to go back all the method to 2014 for the previous circumstances of India playing a ladies’s Test, and a females’s Test being kept in India, when South Africa had actually explored.
The matches will be hosted by the Maharashtra Cricket Association, with the East Zone vs North East Zone and West Zone vs Central Zone components beginning the action. North Zone and South Zone have actually been put in the semi-finals straightaway following a draw of lots, and will fulfill the winners of the very first 2 video games from April 3. The last will be played from April 9. All the matches will be three-day affairs.
The competition will start simply over 10 days after the last of the continuous 2nd edition of the WPL slated for March 17 in Delhi.
There has actually been a clamour in current times for more ladies’s Tests to be arranged, with just the periodic Test match – including Australia, England, India and South Africa – played presently. For India, this implies playing a format of the video game they have little experience of.
Before the Test versus England last December, Smriti Mandhana, speaking at an interview, had actually stated,”[Our] bodies are not utilized to playing 4 back-to-back days of cricket since we usually play T20s and ODIs which have spaces. More than physical part, existing [on the field] for 4 days psychologically, attempting to concentrate on each ball [is important]”
At the time, she had actually revealed hope that the BCCI would think about rebooting the females’s domestic red-ball competitors, stating, “As the variety of Tests increase, we might see a brand-new domestic competition for long-form cricket. Domestic structure is constantly according to worldwide needs.”
More just recently, Meg Lanning had actually taken a rather more powerful position on the matter. “It’s truly hard to get ready for a Test match. In my profession, we were playing when every 2 years. It takes us 2 days to exercise how to play it once again, and after that the Test is over,” she had actually stated. “If you actually desire the video games to be an excellent contest and more countries to play and gamers to comprehend the video game a bit more, I believe we most likely require to play more. Or you go the other method and you do not play any at all and you concentrate on the short-format things.”