‘Would like to play’ for Rajasthan Royals in Girls’s IPL: West Indies all-rounder Hayley Matthews

Having led Barbados Royals to win the inaugural version of THE 6IXTY, Hayley Matthews expressed her hobby to play within the Girls’s IPL. With the match reported to be scheduled for March in 2023, the all-rounder additionally expressed her hobby to play for Rajasthan Royals, whose proprietor Manoj Badela additionally owns the Barbados franchise.

“Needless to say, I would really like to play for the Royals. I have skilled an excellent surroundings with the running staff provide on the franchise, and they’re at all times very supportive of the ladies. Their funding in ladies’s cricket is considerable, and I feel such investments being made in the suitable puts is what our recreation wishes”, she stated in an respectable remark launched by means of Barbados Royals.

“Rajasthan Royals have additionally been my favourites as a result of Jofra, Oshane Thomas and Obed McCoy. Therefore, I would really like to proceed being part of the Royals circle of relatives, and optimistically, I will get to the stadiums donning purple on the ladies’s IPL subsequent yr.”

Matthews first stuck everybody’s consideration as an 18-year-old when she smacked a knock of 66 runs off 45 balls to assist West Indies win the Girls’s T20 Global Cup ultimate in 2016. Referring to that day, she stated, “I feel it is nonetheless a little fuzzy if truth be told, I feel as a result of I used to be so younger (laughs). The whole lot was once so free-willed. We simply went in the market and performed freely. It was once do-or-die and I knew it was once a type of days the place it would both pass your means or may now not, so I took my probabilities and it was once beautiful superb in spite of everything. Certainly a type of days that I will be able to cherish ceaselessly.”

The Girls’s IPL will reportedly be held in a one-month window with 5 groups competing for the trophy.

(With ANI inputs)