Harmanpreet Kaur’s Supernovas take on the Smriti Mandhana-led Trailblazers in a one-off, “IPL-styled” T20 face-off, the game will lay down an early marker for something that has been brewing behind the scenes for women’s cricket in India for quite a while.
Harmeet won the toss and elected to field first against Supernovas. Smriti Mandana and Alyssa Healy open the batting for Trailblazers. As per the reports, Trailblazers were at 38/3 at the end of 5 overs.
The success of the Indian Premier League saw domestic T20 leagues for men spurting all over. And then the pressure mounted on the BCCI to replicate something similar for the women.
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Australia, meanwhile, beat everyone to it with the Women’s Big Bash League, a tournament that found success in its inaugural season itself. The absence of the Indian stars was glaring, in the WBBL, as well as when England rolled out its first edition of the Women’s Super League.
Trailblazers Playing XI: Alyssa Healy (w), Smriti Mandhana (c), Deepti Sharma, Danielle Hazell, Jhulan Goswami, Suzie Bates, Shikha Pandey, Beth Mooney, Ekta Bisht, Lea Tahuhu, Jemimah Rodrigues
Supernovas Playing XI: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Danielle Wyatt, Mithali Raj, Meg Lanning, Taniya Bhatia (w), Sophie Devine, Ellyse Perry, Veda Krishnamurthy, Mona Meshram, Pooja Vastrakar, Megan Schutt
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