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Since 2010, solely 19 take a look at sequence have been performed in girls’s cricket, of which 9 have been England v Australia, with most of them one-off matches.
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There needs to be extra girls’s take a look at cricket to enhance requirements within the sport, South Africa all-rounder Marizanne Kapp has stated.
Kapp, who made her worldwide red-ball debut in 2014, scored 150 towards England in 2022 however has performed in solely 4 exams.
Since 2010, solely 19 take a look at sequence have been performed in girls’s cricket, of which 9 have been England v Australia, with most of them one-off matches.
“It’s the longest format of the sport the place you most likely want essentially the most expertise,” Kapp advised Reuters.
“It will possibly solely assist the ladies’s sport and the way gamers develop as nicely since you be taught a lot about your self and your talent and your sport while you play the longest format.
“For me, it’s about getting as a lot worldwide girls’s cricket as attainable. It doesn’t matter the format. The extra video games and groups you get to play, the stronger it’s going to get and the higher everybody will get.”
The Twenty20 format of the sport is prospering with the introduction of cash-rich franchise leagues all over the world.
Kapp performs within the Ladies’s Premier League (WPL) for Delhi Capitals, who signed the 35-year-old for round $181,000 within the inaugural public sale in 2023.
She has additionally performed within the Huge Bash League, The Hundred, T20 Tremendous League and Caribbean Premier League.
“I do know plenty of occasions we complain and say all these leagues will not be good for the sport since you lose gamers or their focus isn’t worldwide cricket anymore however I really feel it’s so good for the ladies’s sport,” Kapp stated.
“When you solely have one or two leagues, you’ll solely get the perfect of the perfect picked up. Now with increasingly more leagues occurring, second-tier and third-tier worldwide gamers are getting picked up as nicely.”
Kapp, who bowled a double-wicket maiden for the Capitals in a six-wicket win over Gujarat Giants final week, believes the WPL’s high quality has improved and offers gamers important expertise forward of the one-day World Cup in India.
“Taking part in in these circumstances is an enormous assist… I believe in the event you can have as many as attainable of your gamers taking part in in these circumstances that may solely assist your staff,” Kapp stated.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is revealed from a syndicated information company feed – Reuters)