A Women’s National Super League (NSL) for each white-ball codecs will start this month, Sri Lanka Cricket has confirmed, with the 50-over contest set to start on February 6, in Colombo, on the completion of which the T20 competitors will happen.
The event, comparable to the Males’s NSL launched in 2022, will see the nation’s high expertise streamlined. On this case, into 4 groups – Colombo, Kandy, Dambulla and Galle – with 60 gamers participating in complete.
“The 50 over event, which can begin on February 6, is a serious elevation for women’s cricket within the nation, as they get to compete within the nation’s elite home competitors,” said an SLC media launch.
“Competing and performing properly within the Women’s National Super League will allow gamers to graduate to nationwide recognition.”
Each tournaments are set to be held back-to-back in Colombo with either side squaring off in opposition to the opposite as soon as earlier than the ultimate. The 50-over remaining will happen on February 12 with the T20 event beginning three days afterward February 15. The T20 remaining is about for February 20.
The transfer is a big boon to the women’s recreation in Sri Lanka. Between March 2020 and November 2021, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Sri Lanka’s women’s facet didn’t compete in a single worldwide fixture.
Nonetheless 2022 and 2023 have since seen an uptick in aggressive excursions, with sequence in opposition to India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, New Zealand and England within the books, together with a historic house ODI sequence win in opposition to New Zealand and a T20I sequence win in opposition to England.
In 2023, captain Chamari Athapaththu additionally recorded essentially the most profitable yr of her profession, being named ICC’s ODI Participant of the Yr.
