How Legends League Cricket Aims To Help Women Empowerment

The second edition of Legends League Cricket is currently being played in India. After hosting matches in Kolkata, Lucknow, and Delhi, the action has now shifted to Cuttack. The crowd turnout has been really good at all the centres and it is safe to say that just like the first edition, the second is also destined for success. Ahead of the Legends League match between Bhilwara Kings and Gujarat Giants, the League's co-founder and CEO, Raman Raheja spoke to NDTV on how he sees the success of the tournament and what is the roadmap ahead.

"More than me enjoying, the fans are loving it. The idea of you know, bringing it to India -- which is the home of world cricket now, most of the audience comes from India and the sub-continent. The idea was to make it big and India obviously, helps bring that up. The audience loves it and when the audience loves it, the story of the product's success really starts to show up. It is quality cricket happening so it is really good," said Raheja.

It is important to note that in all the Legends League games so far, women umpires have held a key role and they continue to be the on-field officials. The League Co-founder explained why having women umpires was a conscious decision.

"In fact, this idea was used by us in the first edition as well where women empowerment has been one of our key initiatives. We want to bring unique ways of involving women in sports. It is about the match officials as well, they are equally good as men's umpires. It is a good success that we have seen because one of the umpires who was working with us last season, she was from Hong Kong and when she went back home, she literally had a celebrity status where girls are coming up and asking how they can become umpires and