Indian girls’s cricket workforce will compete in its maiden day-night Test when it excursions Australia later this 12 months, BCCI secretary Jay Shah stated on Thursday.
Shah made the announcement on his twitter deal with, stating that the transfer was a part of the BCCI’s dedication to selling the ladies’s recreation.
“Taking forward our commitment towards women’s cricket, I am extremely pleased to announce that Team India @BCCIwomen will play in their first-ever pink ball day-night Test later this year in Australia,” Shah tweeted.
Taking ahead our dedication in direction of girls’s cricket, I’m extraordinarily happy to announce that Team India @BCCIwomen will play of their first-ever pink ball day-night Test later this 12 months in Australia.
— Jay Shah (@JayShah) May 20, 2021
The Indian girls’s workforce, which can play its first Test in seven years from June 16 in England, will compete in one other one throughout the tour of Australia. The workforce will even play ODI and T20 International matches Down Under.
While the dates of the tour are but to be introduced, it’s prone to be in mid-September.
India final performed a Test in opposition to Australia in 2006.
The pink ball Test between India and Australia will probably be solely the second such match to be held within the historical past of girls’s cricket.
The solely day-night girls’s recreation performed to date was between Australia and England at Sydney in November 2017. The match resulted in a draw.
With PTI Inputs
