IPL 2022: Women’s T20 Challenge back: Given the recent success of the Women’s Big Bash League and the growing popularity of women’s cricket, many cricket loyalists have requested the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for a Women’s IPL. While the BCCI is set to lay out Women’s IPL plan after IPL 2022, the shorter-version Women’s T20 Challenge will be back after a year of absence, board President Sourav Ganguly confirmed. Follow IPL 2022 Live Updates on InsideSport.
IPL 2022: Sourav Ganguly confirms, Women’s T20 Challenge to be back after one-year absence
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“The Women’s T20 Challenge will again be back this year in May. Hopefully, in the future, we will be able to host a bigger women’s IPL. But this year, the Women’s T20 Challenge will surely happen during the IPL playoffs,” Sourav Ganguly told Sportstar.
Women’s T20 Challenge back: The Women’s T20 Challenge is a week-long competition organized by the BCCI, which runs during the IPL playoffs. Trailblazers, Supernovas and Velocity are the three teams that compete in this competition.
IPL 2022: Sourav Ganguly confirms, Women’s T20 Challenge to be back after one-year absence
It came into existence in 2018, a year after the Indian Women’s team’s sensational campaign in the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, where they made it to the final. The tournament initially started as a two-team affair, with Supernovas and Trailblazers competing in a one-off game. Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur were named as the captain of the two sides.
Earlier, Sourav Ganguly confirmed that BCCI was preparing the blueprint for Women’s IPL and will be presented in the next three months.
“We have Women’s IPL in our minds. We will reveal how we are going to do it in the next three-four months and how we are going to take WIPL forward,” Sourav Ganguly said on Backstage with Boria.
IPL 2022: Sourav Ganguly confirms, Women’s T20 Challenge to be back after one-year absence
Women’s T20 Challenge back: After a successful inaugural season, BCCI eventually decided to expand the tournament and add a third team in Velocity, led by Mithali Raj. Overall, the competition comprises of four matches – three league stage games and the final. Kaur’s Supernovas were the champions in the first two seasons, but Mandhana’s Trailblazers ended their uncontested dominance in 2020. The competition could not be held last season, since Mithali Raj & Co. were touring Australia for a bilateral series.
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Besides the T20 Challengers, Ganguly has also confirmed BCCI’s plans of organizing Women’s T20 Trophy – the domestic women’s T20 competition contested by 37 teams. “With the Women’s T20 League, we will do it as well. We are presuming that in another month, the number of cases (of COVID-19) will go down and we can host it,” he stated.
IPL 2022: Sourav Ganguly confirms, Women’s T20 Challenge to be back after one-year absence
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