Mithali Raj Roped In As WPL Aspect Gujarat Giants’ Mentor & Marketing consultant

Former India captain Mithali Raj has been appointed as a mentor and marketing consultant through Gujarat Giants for the primary season of the Ladies’s Premier League (WPL), PTI reported. The easiest run-scorer in ladies’s cricket historical past, Mithali has all the time been somewhat vocal about having a ladies’s IPL in India as this is able to additionally lend a hand in selling ladies’s cricket on the grassroots degree. 

On 25 January, Adani Sportsline bought Ladies’s Premier League (WPL) facet Gujarat Giants for Rs 1289 crore, making it the most expensive group to take part within the event. The inaugural season of the Ladies’s Premier League might be performed from March 4 to 24, in all probability between Ladies’s T20 Global Cup and Males’s IPL.

“The inaugural season of the Ladies’s Premier League is an incredible transfer for girls’s cricket and the involvement of the Adani Workforce is a large spice up for the game as smartly,” stated Mithali on Saturday.

“Ladies’s cricket is rising frequently, and this sort of impetus will for sure inspire younger ladies to imagine taking on cricket professionally.

“I imagine that the high-impact participation of corporates will lend a hand hasten the method of in the end bringing extra glory to India.

“This degree of affect can lend a hand give a boost to the wearing ecosystem and toughen alternatives for girls athletes,” she added.

Adani Enterprises director Pranav Adani referred to as Mithali a job fashion and was hoping her presence will lend a hand draw in new skill in no longer simply cricket however different sports activities as smartly.

“Mithali Raj is a job fashion for the younger technology and we’re thrilled to have such an inspirational athlete on board to mentor our ladies’s cricket group,” stated Pranav.

“We imagine that the presence of world wearing heroes like Mithali will draw in new skill no longer simply into cricket but in addition into each different recreation and change into the pro sports activities ecosystem,” he added.

(With PTI Inputs)