The debate around women’s cricket in India is often centered around the structures in place. The Board of Control for Cricket in India is t...
The debate around women’s cricket in India is often centered around the structures in place. The Board of Control for Cricket in India is the richest cricket body in the world and has accordingly empowered its associations. Therefore, money is not always the issue when it comes to investing in the women’s game.
Nor is talent pool a roadblock, as the Indian team has proved by reaching the final of the last ODI (2017) and T20 (2020) World Cup, with a fragment of the preparation and planning that was put in by the eventual champions, England and Australia.
However, it is a question of inclination and interest from stakeholders such as the state associations that counts in order to build a professional and accessible system for women’s cricket in India. This will, as the last few years have shown, is lopsided and sometimes even lacking.
This was the assessment of the BCCI’s two former General Managers of Game Development, Ratnakar Shetty and Saba Karim, in a panel discussion at the The Sports Law & Policy Symposium 2021 on women’s cricket and gender issues in sport.
Discussing the pathways for women’s cricket with Indian cricketer Sushma Verma and retired pacer-turned journaist Snehal Pradhan, Shetty and Karim...
