Bengal to host India’s first state association-run ladies’s franchise T20 league
The Cricket Affiliation of Bengal [CAB] has introduced the launch of the Bengal Professional T20 match, with a males’s occasion and a ladies’s occasion, in June this yr.
If and when it will get off the bottom, the ladies’s occasion would be the first full-fledged ladies’s franchise T20 match in India to be run by an affiliation. There’s the BCCI’s Girls’s Premier League [WPL], in fact, and there have been ladies’s exhibition T20 matches slotted across the males’s T20 leagues in Karnataka and Maharashtra, however not one thing alongside the strains of the numerous males’s tournaments within the nation.
Snehasish Ganguly, the president of CAB, offered the fundamental particulars of the 2 leagues at a press meet at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Tuesday, that are as follows:
“All of the eight groups can be franchises-owned, which can be a primary [in India for a state association-run tournament]. We’ve got nonetheless not finalised the franchises, which can be introduced at a later date,” Ganguly stated. “The groups can be utterly owned by franchises and all gamers can be paid as per the wage cap. CAB won’t incur any expense for the league.”
PTI reported that CAB has been in talks with Kolkata Knight Riders, the group that owns Lucknow Tremendous Giants, Bandhan Financial institution, Shrachi Group, and Rashmi Cement, amongst others to personal the groups.
“For lengthy, there had been criticism that Bengal cricketers weren’t getting alternatives like those from Tamil Nadu or Karnataka,” Ganguly stated. “This would be the reply to it. Bengal has a whole lot of expertise however they didn’t have a correct platform until now. This can be an ideal launch pad for them.”
It’s understood that the Tamil Nadu Cricket Affiliation [TNCA] has additionally been planning a ladies’s T20 league alongside the strains of their males’s Tamil Nadu Premier League, however it’s understood that it’s going to not get off the bottom this yr.
