Former India captain Mithali Raj is holding her choices open for the ladies’s IPL event slated subsequent 12 months — participant or mentor and even proudly owning a group. The BCCI not too long ago introduced that the inaugural girls’s IPL will happen in March subsequent 12 months earlier than the boys’s event. “I am keeping that role open, whether as a player or in a franchise in some way as a mentor,” she advised PTI in an interview on Tuesday. “But right now, nothing is clear, there are five teams…how they are going to do, whether it’s a bidding or auction, so until there is some concrete information, I am keeping pretty much all things open,” stated Mithali, who retired from worldwide cricket earlier this 12 months.

Asked if proudly owning a group is an possibility, she stated, “Maybe, yes”.

Mithali not too long ago made her debut as a commentator and termed it an “interesting phase”.

“I am watching cricket from a very different optics. I still do feel the nerves if it’s a tight game. I still have to cross that barrier of not feeling those emotions of a player,” the previous India skipper, who was in Bengaluru for an occasion, stated.

“I am just testing the waters if I am apt for commentary. Maybe after a few months, I will see if I still have keenness to pursue it.” On attracting extra younger ladies to take up cricket as a profession, she stated the primary version of the under-19 World Cup subsequent 12 months is a serious step ahead and termed it an enormous platform.

Asked what extra must be performed to additional promote girls’s cricket after BCCI’s announcement on equal match charges for its centrally-contracted feminine and male gamers, she stated nothing modifications in a single day and there is time for every thing.

“Currently, one should appreciate the things that are improving and bolstering women’s cricket higher, whether it’s match fee, women’s IPL and Women’s Under-19 World Cup first edition next year,” she stated, including that the nice modifications which have occurred must be amplified much more.

“That will probably lead to further changes,” she stated.

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Mithali stated she is engaged on her autobiography and is releasing it in the course of subsequent 12 months.

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