There needs to be extra girls’s Take a look at cricket with the intention to enhance requirements within the sport, South Africa all-rounder Marizanne Kapp has stated.
Kapp, who made her worldwide red-ball debut in 2014, scored 150 towards England in 2022 however has performed in solely 4 Checks.
Since 2010, solely 19 Take a look at sequence have been performed in girls’s cricket, of which 9 have been England v Australia, with most of them one-off matches.
“It’s the longest format of the sport the place you most likely want essentially the most abilities,” Kapp informed Reuters.
“It may well solely assist the ladies’s sport and the way gamers develop as properly since you be taught a lot about your self and your talent and your sport if you play the longest format.
“For me, it’s about getting as a lot worldwide girls’s cricket as potential. It doesn’t matter the format. The extra video games and groups you get to play, the stronger it’s going to get and the higher everybody will get.”
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The Twenty20 format of the sport is flourishing with the introduction of cash-rich franchise leagues around the globe.
Kapp performs within the Ladies’s Premier League (WPL) for Delhi Capitals who signed the 35-year-old for round $181,000 within the inaugural public sale in 2023.
She has additionally performed within the Massive Bash League, The Hundred, T20 Tremendous League and Caribbean Premier League.
“I do know quite a lot of occasions we complain and say all these leagues should not good for the sport since you lose gamers or their focus isn’t worldwide cricket anymore however I really feel it’s so good for the ladies’s sport,” Kapp stated.
“For those who solely have one or two leagues, you’ll solely get the most effective of the most effective picked up. Now with an increasing number of leagues occurring, second-tier and third-tier worldwide gamers are getting picked up as properly.”
Kapp, who bowled a double-wicket maiden for the Capitals in a six-wicket win over Gujarat Giants final week, believes the WPL’s high quality has improved and offers gamers important expertise forward of the one-day World Cup in India.
“Taking part in in these circumstances is a large assist… I believe when you can have as many as potential of your gamers taking part in in these circumstances that can solely assist your group,” Kapp stated.