Will miss being part of Big Bash: Harman

MUMBAI:INDIAN T20 team captain Harmanpreet Kaur was set to make her fourth Women’s Big Bash league (WBBL) appearance when BCCI announced the dates of its own T20 Women’s Challenge to be played in November first week in the UAE. The two competitions overlap and Kaur will have to give the Australian league a miss.

Kaur didn’t comment on the scheduling that has snowballed into a controversy, but said in an interview that she ‘would miss the WBBL’. Kaur is truly India’s first crossover women’s cricketer. In 2016, she became the first Indian to sign up for WBBL, the premier T20 competition in the women’s game .

Kaur is India’s superstar woman cricketer. But now 31, this will be the second time running that she and other Indian T20 stars will lose out on WBBL due to scheduling.

“The WBBL has always been a premier domestic competition worldwide, and I will definitely miss not being part of it,” she said at the launch of WTF Sports, a fantasy gaming app.