: WPL 2023: What is the financial security? Even if you win, who would recognise you? recalls Reema Malhotra #IndiaNEWS #Sports I once said to a players father, uncle, theres womens cricket, please

WPL 2023: What is the financial security? Even if you win, who would recognise you? recalls Reema Malhotra #IndiaNEWS #Sports
I once said to a players father, uncle, theres womens cricket, please let her play. He would retort back with, What is the financial security? Even if you win, what will you get and who would recognise you?
I saw this myself as had two-three friends who played really well. But their parents never supported them and their careers got over at the college level. The dreams they had, if they had got that bit of support, they could have been fulfilled, she recounts to IANS.
Cut to now, and Reema sees immense hope, career as well as financial wise, for a female to have a bright future as a woman cricketer in India. Through WPL, now a parent will feel that if their girl wants to be a cricketer, let them be free and play the game. WPL is bringing in ads, publicity, money and other players apart from Smriti, Harman, Mithali, Jhulan will be household names.
Also, they will get financial support. I know of many players who are financially weak and were very delighted on getting WPL contract. They didnt have desires of buying iPhone or car; they wish to build a pucca house for their parents and give a good lifestyle to them, which is very heartwarming from an emotional point of view. WPL is a dream in itself for every woman cricketer in the country.
When the inaugural WPL player auction happened on February 13 in Mumbai, the lives of many cricketers, especially in the domestic arena, changed through deals going into lakhs of rupees. Reema thinks the money being offered to women cricketers via WPL can bring a societal change about how the sport is viewed in India.
Firstly, many parents and most of their families werent supportive of girls playing cricket. But theres been a difference in the last two-three years, parents are bringing their girls to play the game as they can see a future.
Theres change coming through since 2017 and then pay parity. So through WPL, the BCCI is giving a platform in WPL where you are given matches and are being equally paid, giving parents a signal that you can invest in your girls future.
In the last few years, a miniscule talent pool of women cricketers in India was cited as a chief reason behind the delay in launching WPL. But now, with India winning inaugural U19 Womens T20 World Cup and WPL set to happen, that talent pool shows promising signs of exponential growth.
Now everybody will be wanting to send their children to playing cricket, because firstly it becomes so marketable. Secondly, now everybody is watching, so theres a lot of publicity. Womens cricket is now becoming a lot like mens cricket in terms of viewership, So theres more knowledge about the sport. In my common circle, all my friends and cousins who never spoke about womens cricket, are now talking about it, and the WPL.

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