Compete
Girls & women
Both the league and the High Performance International Pathway (HPIP) are open to girls and to senior women. Not as an afterthought, and not as a phrase inside somebody else’s page.
What is open, and to whom
JT20 December 2026 has girls' age groups of its own, Under 14 and Under 16. The HPIP is open to girls and to senior women on the same terms: one try-out, one squad, and the same eight days at KIOC in Bengaluru. There is no separate, smaller version of the programme.
That is a deliberate change from how this league used to describe itself. It was built as a junior competition and talked about girls' cricket in a single line on a franchise page. The programme outgrew that description, and the website should not be the last thing to catch up.
Divisions this season
December 2026, Melbourne: Girls Under 14 and Girls Under 16, fielded by every franchise. In Chennai, Season 1 has Girls U14, Girls U18 and Women as a competition of their own.
In India, girls have their own divisions
VECL’s Chennai operation — run by a separate Indian entity under its own ownership — publishes dedicated girls’ divisions with deliberately wider age bands, so that fewer girls are excluded by a birthday. It is worth looking at if you want to see how the league thinks about this.
Both are open
One try-out, one season, everyone.
The pathway try-out and the December season registration are the same for every player.