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Women’s red-ball domestic cricket will be making a comeback in India after a gap of six years with the BCCI set to host the Senior Inter-Zonal Multi-Day Trophy in Pune from 28 March. The board’s decision comes a couple of months after the Indian team’s one-off Tests against England and Australia, with the Harmanpreet Kaur-led side winning both matches convincingly.
The last time a women’s First-Class competition was organised in India was all the way back in 2018, which was also organised in a zonal format and was won by North Zone.
“It is a welcome step taken by BCCI. The national team has started playing Test cricket again and we need the next generation of cricketers to play red-ball cricket at the domestic level,” former India pacer Amita Sharma told PTI.
“I would also want red ball to be played at the state level and not just zonal level. Back in the day we had both those events,” she added.
The Maharashtra Cricket Association will be hosting the tournament which will feature six teams, representing East, West, North, South, Central, and North-East zones.
They will be competing in a series of five matches to be played across three days each, which is a day more than the two-day games played in the 2018 season.
Impact Shorts
View AllThe tournament will begin right after the ongoing Women’s Premier League, which ends on March 17.
It will start with the quarterfinals between East Zone and North East Zone and West Zone and Central Zone on March 28 with the semifinals slated on April 3.
The final is scheduled for April 9.
With PTI inputs
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