The WPL has started and the first few days of the tournament have been of the highest standard and the players are getting to feel high pressure from the opponents as well as the fans of the teams they are playing for and this is a sort of pressure that nobody was used to on such a regular basis. And the benefits of WPL are short term, medium term as well as long term but the ones which will be the most useful are the long term benefits of WPL.
The WPL is a game changing league that has been brought about by the BCCI and the impacts that it will have are started showing so let’s talk about the long term benefits of the WPL
This will be a breeding ground for young Indian players
The IPL when it started in 2008 was something which changed Indian cricket forever. It gave the fans numerous Indian players who had never been seen before and in the last 15+ years most of those players have done extremely well for India. And similarly for the WPL, it will be the golden opportunity for all the young Indian players to show their skills and breed for the pressure they will face in the future. They will get the chance to perform at the biggest stage and as they say they will get better as the years go by.
The opportunity to see the best of Indian and Overseas Talent in one place
This is one of the best things about the IPL as well as the WPL and the chance to see some of the best Indian players play with some of the best overseas players will be great to watch. For example seeing Smriti Mandhana Play with Ellyse Perry will be a dream come true or seeing Harmanpreet Kaur play with Nat Sciver Brunt will be great as well or seeing Meg Lanning playing with Shafali Verma and Jemimah Rodrigues will be incredible and the friendships that will be formed here will last for years.
Women will have a profession and a career to look forward to
The women in cricket generally played because they had the passion for playing it and the financial aspect of getting paid so less was the reason that many of them did not take this as a profession or a career and the fact that in the WPL the players are getting such huge amounts of money means that they will be able to get a stable career and more young girls will be motivated to play cricket and their parents will be motivated to allow them to pursue this path because now there is a career for them.
Team India will be unstoppable in the years to come
The biggest benefit to Indian cricket will be the fact that in a few years as has been Predicted by all the experts and all the legends that because of the WPL a lot of Indian women will know how to handle pressure and as a result the Indian team will be far better in the future because many young players will be identified and they will get to play for India. Indian cricket will win a lot of tournaments in the women’s game .
