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Head Coach Amol Muzumdar: For players accustomed to turning out for T20 and One-day cricket, playing Test cricket is a big change mentally and physically. Smriti Mandhana, vice-captain of the Indian women's cricket team said the domestic structure is more focused on white-ball cricket because of the demands of International cricket.

"Women's cricket in India, I wouldn't say is lacking here (in this aspect). To be fair, we have played a lot of T20s and one-day cricket in the last 4 or 5 years. That's why the domestic cricket structure was formed in terms of getting us the T20s and one-day experience because we had T20 and one-day World Cups more," Mandhana told a press conference two days before the Indian women's cricket team take on England in a four-day one-off Test at the DY Patil Stadium here.

So, the domestic structure could be changed only if there is more red-ball cricket played internationally. At present, only India, England, Australia and South Africa play a bit of women's Test cricket while women's teams from countries like New Zealand, West Indies, Sri Lanka and Pakistan have rarely played the longer version of the game.