Purple-ball cricket for girls will make a return to India’s home calendar after 4 years when the BCCI conducts its Senior Girls’s Inter-Zonal Multi-Day Trophy in Pune from March 28. It was in 2018 {that a} home red-ball event – of two-day matches – was final held in India for girls.

This comes not lengthy after India performed – and gained – back-to-back one-off Exams towards England and Australia in December 2023. India had additionally performed Exams on their excursions of England and Australia in 2021, however it’s important to return all the way in which to 2014 for the earlier occasion of India taking part in a ladies’s Take a look at, and a ladies’s Take a look at being held in India, when South Africa had toured.

The matches might be hosted by the Maharashtra Cricket Affiliation, with the East Zone vs North East Zone and West Zone vs Central Zone fixtures kicking off the motion. North Zone and South Zone have been positioned within the semi-finals straightaway and can meet the winners of the primary two video games from April 3. The ultimate might be performed from April 9. All of the matches might be three-day affairs.

The event will start simply over ten days after the ultimate of the continued second version of the WPL slated for March 17 in Delhi.

On the time, she had expressed hope that the BCCI would think about restarting the ladies’s home red-ball competitors, saying, “Because the variety of Exams improve, we may even see a brand new home event for long-form cricket. Home construction is all the time in line with worldwide calls for.”