India to host South Africa for multi-format girls’s tour in June-July
India is ready to host South Africa for a multi-format girls’s tour in June-July. ESPNcricinfo has learnt Bengaluru will host the white-ball leg, starting with three ODIs from June 16, whereas Chennai will host the one-off Take a look at beginning June 28.
The three T20Is can be performed after the Take a look at, with a view to make sure continuity in codecs forward of the T20 World Cup that’s set to be held in Bangladesh in September-October. The ODIs can be performed on June 16, 19 and 23, the T20Is on July 5, 7 and 9.
The six white-ball video games had been a part of the ICC’s girls’s FTP. Each sequence, together with a go to from New Zealand, had been purported to be performed between July and September final 12 months however needed to be postponed as a result of males’s ODI World Cup and logistics.
The one-off Take a look at wasn’t a part of the FTP. It was a late addition, as a part of CSA and the BCCI’s latest push to advertise girls’s Exams.
This would be the third Take a look at India will play in seven months, having performed towards England and Australia in December. These two Exams got here on the again of a major improvement geared toward taking the “first step in direction of tackling discrimination” with the BCCI saying equal match charges for centrally contracted female and male cricketers.In the meantime, South Africa, who broke their eight-year hiatus from the format after they performed in England in June 2022, final performed a four-day sport in February in Perth, the place they misplaced to Australia by an innings and 284 runs.
The tour can also be a major step within the BCCI’s purpose to take girls’s cricket to newer centres. For the previous few years, the BCCI has most popular to host groups throughout a number of venues in Mumbai citing logistical causes. They broke away from that norm with the WPL earlier this 12 months, with video games held in Bengaluru and Delhi.
The three ODIs are a part of the ICC Girls’s Championship, which is able to give direct {qualifications} to the highest 4 groups, other than the hosts, for the 2025 ODI World Cup, which can be held in India. South Africa are at the moment second on that desk.
