{"id":43028,"date":"2025-08-04T14:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43028\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T14:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:39:09","slug":"why-dont-indian-mens-cricketers-play-in-the-hundred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43028\/","title":{"rendered":"Why don’t Indian men’s cricketers play in The Hundred?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indian men’s players are not allowed to participate in foreign T20 leagues, including The Hundred, according to the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s rules.<\/p>\n

If a cricketer wants to play in an international T20 league, they would have to retire from Indian cricket at all levels. <\/p>\n

However, there is an exception for India’s women who are allowed to join foreign T20 leagues.<\/p>\n

This is because the Women’s Premier League – India’s franchise league – only started in 2023, and Indian players had played in overseas competitions before then.<\/p>\n

However, no Indian women will participate in The Hundred this year after Deepti Sharma pulled out to manage her workload.<\/p>\n

Several IPL owners have acquired stakes in Hundred teams, which could suggest Indian men featuring in the competition in the future.<\/p>\n

“I think it is only a matter of time before the Indian players will play in The Hundred,” said ECB chairman Richard Thompson.<\/p>\n

“[The new owners have] enabled us to hopefully create a competition that becomes the IPL of the northern hemisphere.”<\/p>\n

This article is the latest from BBC Sport’s Ask Me Anything<\/a> team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian men’s players are not allowed to participate in foreign T20 leagues, including The Hundred, according to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-43028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}