WBBL 2023-24 – Smriti Mandhana to skip WBBL once more with eye on home season
India vice-captain Smriti Mandhana has opted out of the WBBL for the second yr in a row, as she might play within the upcoming home season. She had skipped the 2022-23 WBBL as nicely to handle her workload and give attention to her India commitments throughout a busy worldwide yr.This time, Mandhana didn’t put her title within the checklist of 122 gamers for the inaugural WBBL abroad draft, and would possibly as an alternative play for Maharashtra within the Indian home season which is able to run from October 19 to January 26 subsequent yr, and overlap with the WBBL.
The WBBL can even kick off on October 19 and go on till December 2, and also will conflict partially with India’s busy worldwide residence season. Within the present FTP, India are set to host South Africa and New Zealand from September-end to October-end for 12 white-ball video games, after which host England and Australia from mid-December to mid-January for one Check every, and a mixed 9 ODIs and T20Is. Mandhana, other than being deputy to captain Harmanpreet Kaur, can also be an essential all-format participant for India.
India’s girls’s home season will start with the Senior Ladies’s T20 Trophy, to be performed from October 19 to November 9. It will likely be adopted by the Senior Ladies’s Inter-Zonal Trophy, from November 24 to December 4, whereas after a month, the Senior Ladies’s One-Day Trophy will run from January 4 to 26. Among the many senior girls’s tournaments, the T20 Challenger Trophy and the Inter-Zonal One Day Trophy are lacking from the calendar which was introduced by the BCCI in April this yr.
Mandhana, who received the Ladies’s Hundred ultimate with Southern Courageous on Sunday, has performed in three of the eight WBBL seasons up to now, and represented Brisbane Warmth, Hobart Hurricanes and Sydney Thunder.
The ladies’s calendar noticed the addition of the inaugural WPL earlier this yr, during which Mandhana was the most costly participant for INR 3.4 crore on the public sale, and in addition captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore, who received simply two of their eight video games and completed second from backside.
