Remember the 2020 T20 World Cup in Australia where the India’s women’s team reached the final and had us hooked onto TV screens? Well, that match… that final on 8 March 2020 is also the last time Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur, Shafali Verma, and Jemimah Rodrigues got to wear their national jersey.
Because, since then, and it’s been 10 months now, all their international outings have been cancelled or postponed and the biggest event they have managed to play in, is an ongoing local club tournament in Bangalore because, let’s be honest, the BCCI’s four-match Women’s T20 Challenge can’t really qualify as a tournament, can it?
Tokenism at best is what the ‘Women’s IPL’ that was played during the men’s IPL in November, can be called.
Because what else will you call BCCI’s six-day event that had three teams play a total of four matches to…