The inaugural issue of world's first exclusive women's cricket magazine 'Criczone' was released here with Indian team vie-captain Smriti Mandhana featuring as the cover story.

Top international cricketers like Mithali Raj, Harmanpreet Kaur, Smiriti Mandhana alomg with overseas players like Danielle Wyatt, Sophie Devine attended the event which is held on the sidelines of the inaugural women's T20 challenge.

Saba Karim, BCCI's GM (Cricket Operations) said that the T20 Challenge tournament has been a learning curve for the apex cricket body in country.

"It has been a learning curve for BCCI in many ways. We have come to know about the talent pool available in country and many more such things. We are pondering over how to take women's cricket forward. The possibility of full-fledged women's IPL too is open and the number of teams and the modalities have to be still worked on," Karim said.

The publisher of the magazine, Yash Lahoti, said: "For us publishing Women's Criczone Magazine has been a natural progression.

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