A team that faced seemingly insurmountable odds wins its first championship, with wider ramifications for the role women play in public life.
Tag: Women’s Premier League (Indian Cricket League)
Women in Indian Sports Sweat for Their Share of a Booming Market
Female athletes are using social media to increase viewership and seek better sponsorship deals in a field long dominated by men.
India Wins T20 Cricket World Cup, Stamping Its Domination of the Sport
In India, cricket has become immensely profitable and a destination for the world’s best players. But a tournament victory had eluded it for many years.
Big-League Dreams
Maybe, just maybe, that was their future on the screen. How a new cricket league inspired two sisters in a Punjab village.
Big-League Dreams
The New York Times traveled to a remote Indian village to see how the new Women’s Premier League has inspired young girls to fulfill their dreams.
In an Indian Village, Cultivating Girls’ Big-League Dreams
A new $500 million women’s cricket league is offering the kind of opportunities that never existed before in India. The girls of one Punjab village are ready.
Your Friday Briefing: China’s Campaign Against ‘Zero-Covid’ Protesters
Also, Russian missile attacks in Ukraine and a major deal for Indian women’s cricket.