There’s no denying the WPL will put pressure on WBBL: Alyssa Healy

Alyssa Healy. (Photo Source: Pankaj Nangia/Getty Images)

Star Australia cricketer Alyssa Healy believes that the Women’s Premier League (WPL) has tremendous potential to challenge the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) in the coming times. The stumper-batter also stated that WPL can be a game-changer for women’s cricket in the coming years as several players are already earning a lot more than they initially expected.

Healy also talked about the dominance of Australia and how WBBL has helped them grow. However, she believes that the tournament needs to keep pace with WPL and make it more exciting and lucrative in order to retain its status as the best domestic competition in the world.

“The WBBL has been the envy of women’s cricket for eight years now, but there’s no denying the WPL will put pressure on our domestic competition. It’s not all about money, but players in the WPL are earning more for a three-week competition than they are playing for their country for 12 months of the year.

For the WBBL to keep pace with the WPL and retain its status as the best domestic competition in the world, we need to make sure it’s lucrative and exciting enough for the best players to keep making the trip to Australia,” Healy wrote in her column on Cricket Australia’s website on Wednesday.

The 32-year-old also expressed that Australians should start considering franchise cricket as a mode of entertainment.

“I feel strongly that the WBBL should be about entertainment: our showpiece competition where fans pack out the hill and watch the best players in the world do battle,” Healy added.

Healy fails to shine as UP lose to Delhi in WPL

Chasing a target of 212 runs, UP Warriorz needed a strong start in the second innings and they got so as skipper Alyssa Healy hit two back-to-back boundaries, to begin with. However, the Australian couldn’t capitalize on her start as Jess Jonassen got the better of her while the opener was batting on 24.

Soon after her dismissal, the middle order collapsed under pressure except for Tahlia McGrath, who played some brilliant cricket at the DY Patil Sports Academy. The 27-year-old smashed 90 off just 50 balls and tried to bring UP back into the game but no other batter could support her in the middle as UP lost the match by 42 runs.

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