New Zealand cricketers Sophie Devine, Suzie Bates and Amelia Kerr bat for women’s IPL

At this stage, it would seem everyone but the Board of Control for Cricket in India seems a Women’s Indian Premier League is long overdue.

The Indian T20 captain, vice captain, even one of the existing IPL franchise owners, are among those who believe it is time (for a while now). Cricketers, current and former, from other countries have called for it too. But all we hear is that it is going to happen eventually, and that tomorrow still hasn’t become today.

The most recent voices to add their weight to the start of a WIPL, or a tournament of that sort, are the New Zealand cricket stars, Sophie Devine, Suzie Bates and Amelia Kerr.

NZ captain Devine, who recently led Perth Scorchers to the title in the Women’s Big Bash League in Australia, was responding to a query on Monday at an event to mark the beginning of live cricket streaming on Amazon Prime Video in India. New Zealand men and women’s home matches will now be streamed on the platform from the new year.

“I think that the success of WBBL in Australia has been enormous and raised the profile of that,” Devine said. “The standard of cricket as well has certainly…

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