India, Jan. 30 -- Scouting is the invisible foundation on which the success of the Indian Premier League and Women's Premier League (WPL) are built.

The discovery of certain players through the leagues' scouting systems (Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Varun Chakravarthy, Tilak Varma) are now part of T20 lore.

Here's another example of what the good eyes of a scout can do.

Shree Charani, at the beginning of last year, was just another young cricketer. She grew up in a village in Andhra Pradesh, then made her start grinding it out at domestic Under-23 tournaments. She didn't know it, but she was being watched from tournament to tournament by the lead scout for Delhi Capitals, former cricketer Ananya Upendran, and her team.

At the 2025 ...