Questions on the excessively short boundaries being used at the Women’s Premier League venues should be placed before the administrators and not the players, said Mumbai Indians captain Harmanpreet Kaur.
On a BCCI directive, the boundary limits for WPL games were brought in and it was five metres lesser than last month’s T20 World Cup, to a maximum 60 metres. But in reality, boundaries at the DY Patil Stadium and the Brabourne Stadium were brought in to 42-44 meters.
The motive behind that was to facilitate high-scoring games. But not everybody was pleased with that, like RCB all-rounder Sophie Devine, who wanted the boundaries pushed back.
When asked about it, Harmanpreet, during her joint media conference with Delhi Capitals’ Meg Lanning ahead of the WPL final, laughed and said: “Hum logo ne thodi na rope lagaya hai. Jinhone rope lagaya hai aap unko poocho na.”
“It is not in our hands no?”, she continued. “It is in the hands of the officials. You can talk to them,” Harmanpreet added.
Both Harmanpreet and Lanning think WPL will take women’s cricket in India to another level. Shortening the boundaries though is hardly the right way to do it.
