SLC to create ladies’s groups affiliated with premier golf equipment

Sri Lanka Cricket in within the course of of making ladies’s sides affiliated with a number of first-class golf equipment, although no concrete timeline has been introduced.

“The top clubs in Sri Lanka such as SSC, NCC, CC and Tamil Union will start fielding women’s teams in the upcoming domestic competitions,” SLC President Shammi Silva stated at a media briefing on Tuesday.

However, Head of National Cricket Operations at SLC Chinthaka Edirimanne, clarified that the transfer was nonetheless within the dialogue stage.

“We have spoken to several Major League clubs, and we’re we’re hoping to hear back from the clubs in about two weeks,” he instructed ESPNcricinfo.

Sri Lanka’s prime home first-class construction is the Major League event, with 26 membership sides being represented at present. Edirimanne stated that they hope to create no less than 10-12 ladies’s groups.

Currently, ladies’s home cricket in Sri Lanka includes the Division One Tournament, a limited-overs contest with eight sides participating. While a number of extra golf equipment have competed over time, solely a handful stay – with a few of these affiliated with the armed forces even fielding a second XI.

In phrases of different cricketing nations, international locations similar to India, New Zealand and Australia have state-affiliated ladies’s groups, whereas England has a number of membership sides.

SLC introduced earlier this 12 months that the ladies would earn the identical match price as their male counterparts, nonetheless ladies’s cricket within the nation has largely fallen by the wayside in years passed by. Following the 2020 T20 World Cup, for instance, Sri Lanka Women did not play one other worldwide match for over a 12 months.

In that sense, the transfer to create ladies’s sides affiliated with premier membership sides, had been it to transpire, would sign a major step ahead in how the ladies’s recreation is considered within the nation