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The Women\u2019s T20 Challenge has finally been announced as part of the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League which will be held in the United Arab Emirates this year. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) were planning to organize the series of women\u2019s T20 exhibition matches originally with four teams this year but the Coronavirus pandemic has put paid to those plans and only three teams will involved this year.<\/p>\n
However, the more pressing issue at the moment is who will be selected the Indian women\u2019s cricketers to be part of these three teams as the senior women\u2019s selection committee tenure ended a while back and no replacement panel has been appointed yet.<\/p>\n
Former India cricket Shantha Rangaswamy, who is also an BCCI Apex Council member, is confident that the board will appoint a women\u2019s selection committee by next month, well before the women\u2019s T20 Challenge, which will take place in November.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s get the first thing clear that these games are not women\u2019s IPL by any means but actually exhibition games for the promotion of women\u2019s cricket. IPL Governing Council president Brijesh Patel and BCCI president Sourav Ganguly have done a wonderful job by managing to find a slot for the Women\u2019s T20 Challenge even amid this pandemic,\u201d Shantha Rangaswamy told indiansportsnews.com<\/em> in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n \u201cGanguly is one of India\u2019s finest captains and we have full faith in his decision-making skills. We should have a selection panel in place by next month, well before the Women\u2019s T20 Challenge which are expected to take place in the month of November,\u201d Shantha Rangaswamy said.<\/p>\n Former India wicketkeeper Saba Karim, who was the BCCI General Manager (Cricket Operation) was the point person when it came to Indian women\u2019s cricket but even he has resigned from his post last month.<\/p>\n \u201cThe BCCI have already come up with an advertisement to find a replacement for Saba Karim. We will have a BCCI GM soon and he will get back to handling women\u2019s cricket and it\u2019s issues,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Shantha Rangaswamy, who was also part of Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) which selected the women\u2019s as well as men\u2019s senior head coach, believes that the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed back women\u2019s cricket especially in India by a couple of years.<\/p>\n \u201cThe development of women\u2019s cricket in India and the world has been pushed back by a couple of years due to the coronavirus pandemic. I think it will be at least 2022 before Indian women\u2019s cricket can get back on their feet. But we should not be making any predictions in this regard. As soon as BCCI gets back its sponsors in earnest, I am sure they will be start pumping in money into the women\u2019s game as well,\u201d the 66-year-old former India cricketer said.<\/p>\n The women\u2019s T20 Challenge will not see participation of lot of top foreign players this year since its schedule is clashing with the Women\u2019s Big Bash League (WBBL) which will be held in Australian between October 17 to November 29.<\/p>\n \u201cThe BCCI had no option in the matter of the schedule. The purpose of organizing the exhibition clashes during the IPL Playoff week is to give most global coverage to women\u2019s cricket. This can only be achieved by organizing these matches concurrently with the Playoffs.<\/p>\n \u201cIf these games were organized during the first week of IPL, they won\u2019t garner the same kind of publicity. Brijesh Patel wanted to have four teams in Women\u2019s T20 Challenge so that they can eventually build up to organizing a Women\u2019s IPL a few years down the line,\u201d Shantha Rangaswamy added.<\/p>\n It remains to be seen how Women\u2019s T20 Challenge pans out in this Coronavirus-pandemic hit year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Women\u2019s T20 Challenge has finally been announced as part of the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League which will be held in the United Arab Emirates this year. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) were planning to organize the series of women\u2019s T20 exhibition matches originally with four teams this year but the Coronavirus pandemic has put paid to those plans and only three teams will involved this year.<\/p>\n However, the more pressing issue at the moment is who will be selected the Indian women\u2019s cricketers to be part of these three teams as the senior women\u2019s selection committee tenure ended a while back and no replacement panel has been appointed yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-cricket-news"],"yoast_head":"\n<\/p>\n