Data | Women’s Premier League is no stroke of luck but a hard-fought win
WPL begins: Delhi Capitals’ captain Meg Lanning (L), Mumbai Indians’ captain Harmanpreet Kaur (2L), Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Smriti Mandhana (C), Gujarat Giants’ captain Beth Mooney (2R) and UP Warriorz captain Alyssa Healy (R) gesture during the opening ceremony of 2023 Women’s Premier League (WPL) at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on March 4, 2023.
| Photo Credit: INDRANIL MUKHERJEE
The inaugural edition of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) is a culmination of consistently superior T20 performances by women cricketers in recent years. In some T20 parameters, the performance of Indian women has matched or nearly matched that of the Indian men’s team in recent years. So, the WPL is not a token gesture to promote equal representation in cricket, but a hard-fought win for ...