Alyssa Healy, a star Australian cricketer, believes the Women's Premier League (WPL) has the potential to challenge the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) in the future. The stumper-batter also stated that the WPL has the potential to be a game changer for women's cricket in the coming years, as several players are already earning far more than they anticipated.

Healy also discussed Australia's dominance and how the WBBL has helped them grow. However, she believes that in order to maintain its status as the best domestic competition in the world, the tournament must keep up with the WPL and become more exciting and lucrative. "The WBBL has been the envy of women's cricket for eight years now, but there's no denying the WPL will put pressure on our domestic competition.

It's not all about money, but WPL players earn more for a three-week competition than they do for their country for the entire year. To keep up with the WPL and maintain its status as the best domestic competition in the world, we need to make sure it's lucrative and exciting enough to keep the best players coming to Australia," Healy wrote in her column on Cricket Australia's website on Wednesday.

The 32-year-old also suggested that Australians consider franchise cricket as a form of entertainment. "I strongly believe that the WBBL should be about entertainment: our showpiece competition, where fans pack the hill to watch the best players in the world compete," Healy added. With a target of 212 runs to chase, the UP Warriorz needed a strong start in the second innings, which they got when skipper Alyssa Healy hit two back-to-back boundaries.

However, the Australian was unable to capitalise on her strong start, as Jess Jonassen outplayed her while the opener was batting on 24. Except for Tahlia McGrath, who played some brilliant cricket at the DY Patil Sports Academy, the middle order collapsed under pressure soon after her dismissal. The 27-year-old smashed 90 off 50 balls to try to get UP back into the game, but no other batter could support her in the middle as UP lost by 42 runs.