The MCG and the SCG will host standalone common season Women’s Big Bash League suits for the primary time this yr in a transfer geared toward boosting the standing of the ladies’s festival.
Previously WBBL suits have been handiest held on the largest stadiums as a part of double-header fixtures with males’s groups and for finals.
The BBL’s normal supervisor, Alistair Dobson, stated the transfer used to be the herbal development for the league “to have the best players in the world playing in the best cricket venues in the world”.
“Clubs, players and fans will benefit from more home games in each market and each team featuring at home in the first nine days of the tournament.”
The SCG and MCG fixtures would be the first standalone ladies’s suits on the stadiums, out of doors of the T20 World Cup, since 2017.
The adjustments to Australia’s home ladies’s cricket league stem from Cricket Australia’s broader technique to building up the professionalism of the contest, relatively than being pushed through viewer numbers or price ticket gross sales.
But the announcement comes because the Women’s Ashes persistently draws crowds of greater than 20,000, together with a record-breaking attendance at Lord’s for the 3rd T20 of the collection.
The WBBL will hope to journey the wave of Women’s Ashes reinforce when it begins in October.
Other adjustments to the agenda come with extra fixtures on the Adelaide Oval and an building up to twenty-five evening suits.
Matches performed at impartial venues have additionally been minimize down from 24 to ten, with the purpose of sooner or later transferring to a complete home-and-away season, after gamers expressed frustration at enjoying in entrance of small crowds for one-off video games.
Players within the 9th version of the WBBL can be paid extra, Dobson stated, with workforce wage caps doubling and most sensible gamers probably incomes greater than $100,000. It may even function the league’s first out of the country participant draft.
The 2023–24 season will open with the Sydney Sixers going through the Melbourne Stars on 19 October at North Sydney Oval, ahead of the overall is performed on 2 December.