Not like India, Australia, New Zealand and West Indies, the Pakistan Cricket Board are but to launch a franchise-based girls’s T20 league.

Karachi: Following the success of the Pakistan Tremendous League (PSL), former nationwide staff captain Bismah Maroof referred to as for a devoted girls’s cricket league to stage up their performances on the worldwide stage. Based in 2015, PSL is likely one of the most profitable franchise T20 leagues on the planet presently, drawing high cricketers from all over the world.

The variety of girls’s cricket matches per 12 months is manner lower than what the lads play. For a lower-ranked staff like Pakistan, the gamers want worldwide publicity to excel on the high stage and battle eye-to-eye in opposition to powerhouses like England, Australia and India to call a number of. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) did host exhibition matches throughout the PSL within the final couple of years, however aren’t internet hosting any this 12 months.

Notably, the exhibition matches had been modelled like India’s Girls’s T20 Problem the place three groups that includes native and worldwide feminine cricketers compete in a five-six sport affair. The BCCI hosted the competitors for 4 years in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022 earlier than formally asserting the Girls’s Premier League in 2023. At present the second season is underway.

“Taking part in with international gamers gives an amazing alternative to study, and sharing the dressing room additionally advantages. The abilities enhance, which is why our outcomes improved after that,” Maroof advised media. Having a Girls’s Pakistan Tremendous League is not going to solely present a platform for the upcoming cricketers, but additionally assist in progress and growth of of Pakistan girls’s cricket.

She additionally expressed disappointment for not having the ladies’s exhibition matches within the ongoing PSL. “There are not any exhibition matches for ladies cricketers in PSL 9, which is disappointing,” she added. The Girls’s Large Bash League (Australia), Girls’s Tremendous Smash (New Zealand) and Girls’s Caribbean Premier League (West Indies) are a number of the notable girls’s franchise T20 leagues on the planet.