Whereas the ICC‘s World Check Championship for males started its inaugural two-year cycle from 2019 to 2021 and is at the moment in its third version, girls’s cricket lacks an analogous construction.
The present disparity amongst girls’s groups is obvious within the rare participation in Check cricket, with solely England, Australia, and India usually participating within the longest format, regardless of vital gaps between matches.
“I might like to be part of the World Check Championship however that’s for the boards and the ICC to resolve,” Mandhana informed the media forward of India’s coaching session in Navi Mumbai on Tuesday.
“Having watched quite a lot of males’s Check cricket and championships, it will be actually thrilling to be part of one thing of that kind. However as I stated, that may be their (directors’) choice,” she added.
India and England are set to conflict in a one-off Check on the DY Patil Stadium beginning this Thursday. This match marks the hosts’ return to Check cricket after a two-year hiatus.
As for England, it has been roughly six months since their final Check, the place they confronted Australia within the opening recreation of the Girls’s Ashes, ending in a defeat by 89 runs.
Beaumont, a 32-year-old veteran with eight Checks beneath her belt since her debut a decade in the past, expressed that the present interval just isn’t opportune for a girls’s World Check Championship (WTC).
She highlighted the prevailing imbalance within the variety of matches performed by completely different groups as an element that wants addressing earlier than such a championship will be thought of.
“I don’t suppose it’s fairly the fitting time, if I’m trustworthy. In the intervening time there are solely three or 4 nations which can be taking part in Check match cricket usually and doubtlessly (there are) solely three or 4 governing our bodies that may afford to host girls’s Check cricket,” Beaumont stated.
The England batter stated she doesn’t count on ICC to be investing into any such match.
“That must be a really massive funding from the ICC, I don’t suppose they’re in all probability prepared to place in,” she stated.
Beaumont advocated the international locations to have extra matches throughout a bilateral tour and get different nations like Pakistan, Sri Lanka and New Zealand taking part in extra girls’s Check cricket.
“They’re nonetheless attempting to develop the T20 recreation throughout the globe, the way in which you could have seen Thailand and different international locations come into T20 cricket. I believe that ought to keep as a spotlight, nevertheless, I might like to see extra nations do perhaps a multi-format collection like we do within the Ashes,” she stated.
“So say, India come over and we do Check matches, ODI and T20Is and (get an) total winner from that. We do this from South Africa and New Zealand and all these groups and construct from there.”
“In the future, I might like to see a World Check Championship however in the mean time I don’t suppose it will be honest when you could have India, Australia and England have performed quite a lot of Checks within the final 4 years however different groups like Pakistan, Sri Lanka and New Zealand haven’t performed any Check cricket within the final 15 years,” Beaumont added.
“The imbalance remains to be there, we have to construct it from the bottom up a little bit bit longer and positively have many Checks,” stated the England opening batter.
(With PTI inputs)
