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WPL 2023: Gujarat Giants’ Harleen Deol believes ‘cricket is everyone’s sport’

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Gujarat Giants famous person Harleen Deol posted an image of herself on social media sporting a jersey which is captioned, “cricket is everyone’s game” in the course of the ongoing inaugural season of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) season.

The Giants cricketer posted the image within the week of International Women’s day and the image was captioned, “this is just the beginning”.

The inaugural season of the WPL guarantees to present numerous younger aspiring ladies’s cricketers a visual stage to showcase their abilities for the world to see. The 24-year-old cricketer was introduced by the Ginats for 40 Lakhs.

Indian cricket followers and the workforce administration can be hoping this might lay the muse for enhancing ladies’s cricket within the nation. It would additionally hope that the WPL can do for the ladies’s sport what the boys’s IPL has been doing since 2008, each by way of participant funds and depth of high quality gamers.

Despite a star-filled line-up, Deols’ Giants has been struggling within the season and are positioned fourth desk. Their current defeat to Delhi Capitals by 10 wickets has been shot to their aspirations to qualify for the playoffs.

Shafali Verma smashed a 19-ball fifty as Delhi Capitals thrashed Gujarat Giants by 10 wickets within the Women’s Premier League on the DY Patil Stadium, right here on Saturday. Marizanne Kapp returned with sensational figures of 5 for 15, whereas Shikha Pandey claimed 3/26 as Delhi Capitals restricted Gujarat Giants to 105 for 9 after they opted to bat.

Chasing a paltry 106, Delhi cantered dwelling in simply 7.1 overs with Shafali taking the centre stage in her whirlwind knock of 76 not out from 28 balls (10×4, 5×6), her second fifty within the WPL.