While the industry proposition of the league continues to be up for debate, the very first thing that the franchise did was once to rule it out as a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) task.
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“You don’t invest so heavily in CSR activity. We never looked at having a women’s team like that. Yes, there is a financial side to the investment. You have to run the numbers. This WPL will give returns in years to come .The response to the league says it has been a success,” Delhi capitals CEO Dheeraj Malhotra informed TOI on Saturday.
There was once a brief turnaround time from when the Indian cricket board (BCCI) introduced the league, to the public sale after which the graduation of the event. But Capitals control had its talent-scouting equipment operating from an overly nascent degree. To have an in depth scouting program as the boys’s groups around the IPL was once all the time going to be difficult.
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“We hired agencies who cover women’s cricket across the country. They have the data, analysis and videos. What we also did was we had directed the entire scouting team for the men’s squad to work on women’s cricket. All the five franchises had to announce Their support staff was very late but we had formed the core of the team before we zeroed down on the support staff. They were provided with all the data and they worked around it,” Malhotra mentioned.
With simply 5 franchises, there were only a few uncapped gamers who were given numerous publicity. As the league grows, there must be a strengthening of the construction of home cricket throughout age teams which in flip will throw up extra home names. Malhotra believes the U-19 World Cup and the WPL will create the availability line for the BCCI to toughen its age-group cricket.
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“The reason BCCI has not been able to create a robust domestic and age-group cricket compared to men’s cricket is because there hasn’t been demand as such from women cricketers. There aren’t so many cricketers like men’s. Now, with the U-19 World Cup and WPL, this will get more girls into the system. That will boost domestic cricket and there will be more talent coming through,” Malhotra, who has served as BCCI GM for recreation construction, reckoned.
As ladies’s cricket grows in India, a transfer like Capital’s putting in an academy may just lend a hand supply those ladies just right publicity. “We do have girls coming to our DC academies. There have been more girls who just played the game as recreation. But this WPL will motivate them to stick to the sport,” Malhotra mentioned.