For the ongoing second edition of the Delhi Premier League (DPL), two new teams were added to the men’s competition to make it an eight-team affair. Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA) president Rohan Jaitley is hopeful about an expansion in the four-team women’s event also transpiring in the near future.
“Once our talent pool increases, we would certainly want to try and let’s say add two more teams on the women’s side. At that point of time, we can actually try and have a separate window for the women’s league rather than overlapping it with the men’s section. Women’s cricket needs to have its own importance,” Jaitley told The Hindu on Friday.
During his interaction, the 36-year-old underlined the need for a new stadium with a bigger capacity in the city. The Arun Jaitley Stadium, which is located in the heart of the national capital, can roughly accommodate 35,000 spectators. When Jaitley was re-elected last December, he had said that one of the association’s priorities in his term would be to look for land to build a state-of-the-art facility.
“A new stadium in this city is the need of the hour, because what you are at capacity today may have been optimum about 10 years ago, but today the appetite of the city for cricket has multiplied manifold,” he said.
“In any healthy ecosystem, you would want your key matches to happen in the best infrastructure and though we upgraded our infrastructure before the 2023 ODI World Cup, we certainly are having a space constraint. The city certainly needs another international stadium to cater to the demands of the future. Getting land per se is not the problem, but the idea is that the accessibility quotient has to be far more stringent in identification of land.”
Published – August 22, 2025 07:52 pm IST
