Bengal to host India’s first state association-run girls’s franchise T20 league

The Cricket Affiliation of Bengal [CAB] has introduced the release of the Bengal Professional T20 event, with a males’s tournament and a girls’s tournament, in June this 12 months.

If and when it will get off the bottom, the ladies’s tournament would be the first full-fledged girls’s franchise T20 event in India to be run by means of an arrangement. There’s the BCCI’s Ladies’s Premier League [WPL], in fact, and there were girls’s exhibition T20 suits slotted across the males’s T20 leagues in Karnataka and Maharashtra, however no longer one thing alongside the traces of the numerous males’s tournaments within the nation.

“The entire 8 groups might be franchises-owned, which might be a primary [in India for a state association-run tournament]. We’ve nonetheless no longer finalised the franchises, which might be introduced at a later date,” Ganguly mentioned. “The groups might be totally owned by means of franchises and all avid gamers might be paid as in step with the wage cap. CAB is not going to incur any expense for the league.”

PTI reported that CAB has been in talks with Kolkata Knight Riders, the crowd that owns Lucknow Tremendous Giants, Bandhan Financial institution, Shrachi Team, and Rashmi Cement, amongst others to possess the groups.

“For lengthy, there have been grievance that Bengal cricketers weren’t getting alternatives like those from Tamil Nadu or Karnataka,” Ganguly mentioned. “This would be the resolution to it. Bengal has numerous ability however they didn’t have a right kind platform until now. This might be a really perfect release pad for them.”

It’s understood that the Tamil Nadu Cricket Affiliation [TNCA] has additionally been making plans a girls’s T20 league alongside the traces in their males’s Tamil Nadu Premier League, however it’s understood that it’ll no longer get off the bottom this 12 months.