The BCCI has announced the domestic schedule for the 2022-23 season. Domestic cricket this season gets a lot better with more tournaments added for the Under-19 and Senior Women’s categories. There also is an Under-16 tournament scheduled that’ll commence later this year.
Indian cricketer, Smriti Mandhana in her presser quoted, “U16 is a significant tournament. I am happy that it has started. A lot of girls in the age group have started playing. This will help them. And this is also important for girls playing in the U19 World Cup.”
| CATEGORY | TOURNAMENT | LEAGUE | KNOCKOUT | ||
| START DATE | END DATE | START DATE | END DATE | ||
| Senior | Women’s T20 Trophy | 11-Oct-22 | 22-Oct-22 | 30-Oct-22 | 05-Nov-22 |
| Senior | Women’s Inter zonal T20 Trophy | 8-Nov-22 | 15-Nov-22 | – | – |
| Senior | Women’s T20 Challenger Trophy | 20-Nov-22 | 24-Nov-22 | 26-Nov-22 | 26-Nov-22 |
| Senior | Women’s one-day Trophy | 18-Jan-23 | 29-Jan-23 | 01-Feb-23 | 07-Feb-23 |
| Senior | Women’s Inter zonal one-day Trophy | 12-Feb-23 | 19-Feb-23 | 21-Feb-23 | 21-Feb-23 |
| Women’s U-23 | T20 Trophy | 3-Feb-23 | 14-Feb-23 | 17-Feb-23 | 23-Feb-23 |
| Women’s U-23 | One-day Trophy | 26-Feb-23 | 9-Mar-23 | 12-Mar-23 | 18-Mar-23 |
| Women’s U-19 | T20 Trophy | 1-Oct-22 | 8-Oct-22 | 11-Oct-22 | 17-Oct-22 |
| Women’s U-19 | T20 Challenger Trophy | 1-Nov-22 | 5-Nov-22 | 7-Nov-22 | 7-Nov-22 |
| Women’s U-19 | One-day Trophy | 7-Dec-22 | 14-Dec-22 | 17-Dec-22 | 23-Dec-22 |
| Women’s U-16 | One-day Trophy | 26-Dec-22 | 3-Jan-23 | – | – |
The expansion of women’s cricket at the domestic level was being awaited and to see it scheduled to happen is an excellent piece of news for Indian cricket as a whole. There are a few grassroots cricket tournaments on hold post covid and what better time than now to get it all started as BCCI introduces and expands women’s cricket in India.
