Shikha Pandey Confident Of Seeing Full-Fledged Women’s IPL Within Couple Of Years | Cricket News

“Lovely certain that we might see it taking place in a yr or two,” stated an constructive Shikha Pandey on being requested when can one most likely see a full-fledged Women’s Indian Premier League (IPL) going forward. The Girls’s T20 Problem used to be performed for the first actual time in 2018 and in a one-off fit, the Supernovas had been in a position to outclass the TrailBlazers.

Then, in 2019, the BCCI organised a three-team match as a substitute of a one-off fit, that includes a brand new staff referred to as Pace along side Trailblazers and Supernovas.

Shikha performed the inaugural version of the match for the TrailBlazers whilst within the 2019 version, she represented Pace.

This yr, BCCI had scheduled a four-team contest in the Women’s T20 Challenge with seven fits in comparison to closing yr’s 4. On the other hand, the coronavirus pandemic pressured the postponement of the match.

In a telephonic interview with ANI, Shikha Pandey spoke in regards to the Girls’s IPL and the way the contest can inspire extra women within the nation to absorb the game.

“As a cricketer, in case you question me, having the high-intensity video games and having the ability to play them can be a large plus for us, on the world degree, you get to play high-intensity video games, to have world-class cricketers taking part in along you, you get to be told such a lot from them when it comes to their revel in. With IPL fits being taking place and them being televised, a large number of younger women would be capable of watch it on tv, it might be an enormous factor as being a 90s child I didn’t get the risk to observe televised girls’s fits a lot,” stated Shikha whilst talking in regards to the possibilities of the Women’s IPL.

“It will encourage the more youthful lot to absorb cricket. We’ve got were given an enormous skill pool inside of our home cricket, I might say Girls’s IPL must occur and I’m very certain in any other yr or two, we will be able to see a really well organised Girls’s IPL. We’ve got performed Girls’s T20 Problem in 2018 and 2019, the type of reception we were given from the folks that got here to observe the ones fits used to be superb, the stadium used to be jampacked, any world sequence we play in India, we’ve got at all times gained nice strengthen from the group,” added the pacer who made her debut in 2014.

The 31-year-old Shikha additionally mentioned what brought about her to write down an extended Twitter thread, asking the involved government to not tinker with regulations to make girls’s cricket extra “horny”.

There were tips of testing a smaller ball or shorter pitch for girls’s cricket, however Shikha had suggested that rather than changing the rules, authorities should look to market the sport better.

Elaborating about her Twitter thread, Shikha stated: “I’ve been listening to tips to make girls’s cricket extra interesting for some time now, there used to be so much being stated in regards to the adjustments that had been had to be made so as to make girls’s cricket extra horny, it used to be one thing I sought after to precise, what I wrote in my Twitter thread used to be what I in point of fact felt.”

“There have been many of us who agreed with it, however I used to be glad that individuals who didn’t believe my opinion additionally got here out and mentioned it. I used to be more than happy with the actual fact that folks had been popping out suggesting adjustments, it method they’re enthusiastic about girls’s cricket and the way it can develop,” she added.

Shikha used to be part of the Indian squad that made the finals of the 2017 50-over International Cup and T20 International this yr. The pacer talked in regards to the affect of the finals of each the most important tournaments.

India had ignored out on profitable each the tournaments, because the facet confronted loss in opposition to England within the 50-over International Cup ultimate, whilst the Harmanpreet Kaur-led facet confronted defeat in opposition to Australia within the T20 International Cup’s summit conflict.

Speaking about 2017 International Cup ultimate, Shikha stated: “After the 2017 International Cup, there used to be a surge in quite a lot of women who if truth be told sought after to absorb cricket professionally in India, they have got been coming to to the academies so as to grow to be subsequent Mithali Raj and Jhulan Goswami. The video games after the 2017 International Cup were televised regardless of the place we’ve got performed.”

“It used to be superb to look such a lot of other folks come down on the MCG to observe the finals of the T20 International Cup, it’s as soon as in an entire life alternative to play on the MCG to play in a entrance of such a lot of other folks on Girls’s Day with greats like Katy Perry and Billie Jean King. It used to be a spectacle, we misplaced the fit, sure, however we had been very fortunate to play in entrance of such a lot of other folks,” stated Shikha whilst speaking in regards to the T20 International Cup on the Melbourne Cricket Flooring.

Shikha, who has scalped 73 wickets in ODIs, additionally mentioned her learnings from the losses the Indian facet suffered within the finals of the 2 main ICC tournaments.

“Everybody’s psychological setup is other, I’ve learnt a large number of issues from the 2 finals that I performed in, I at all times consider that you simply be told much more from defeats than from the luck you’ve, keeping your nerve in high-pressure eventualities is one thing I’ve learnt, so that you could assume obviously is any other factor I’ve learnt,” stated Shikha.

The Indian girls’s staff used to be closing noticed in motion within the finals of the T20 International Cup this yr in opposition to Australia. After that, coronavirus pandemic pressured all carrying occasions to return to a halt.

On being requested about how she spent her lockdown days, Shikha stated: “The preliminary few days had been somewhat tricky, however then when I began following my regimen, I had a timetable for myself, I’ve been understanding two times an afternoon, the teacher has been in point of fact useful as he has been sending the programmes, I’ve been staying in isolation at Goa Cricket Indoor facility, I’ve spent a large number of time with my circle of relatives, this can be a privilege to be at house for this lengthy.”

The Girls’s 50-over International Cup is slated to be performed in New Zealand subsequent yr and Shikha opined that the staff would be sure that everyone seems to be within the top in their health once they get again to the sector once more.

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“I can’t in point of fact assess the time I will be able to require to get again into form, I’ve been doing my conditioning periods and I’ve saved them as a best precedence, I’ve been doing the entirety to be in the most productive form imaginable. I’m hopeful that we’ve got the 2021 International Cup subsequent yr on time,” Shikha stated.

“I’m in point of fact taking a look ahead to it, after we get again to the sector we will be able to be sure that we’re at top of our health, we will be able to be sure that we’re mentally and bodily are compatible,” she added.