The inaugural WPL in March is shaping as the richest in women’s sport. As the game’s stars gather for the US$572m tournament in India, here’s how it works, who’s playing and why it will turbo-boost cricket
Australian fast bowler Megan Schutt could be one of the stars of the new Women’s Premier League starting in India this March.Australian fast bowler Megan Schutt could be one of the stars of the new Women’s Premier League starting in India this March.Last modified on Fri 3 Feb 2023 01.15 GMTDescribed variously by a wide cross-section of stakeholders in cricket as a “revolution” in the women’s game and a “game-changer”, the WPL is an Indian domestic T20 league that kicks off early next month.
in India , the WPL is the latest in a burgeoning list of club-based or franchise-owned women’s leagues and follows the pioneering Women’s Big Bash League in Australia and the women’s Hundred in England.The WPL is pencilled in for a tight 21-day window – March 4 to 24 – starting six days after the Women’s T20 World Cup ends in South Africa and ending about a week before the Indian Premier League , the most lucrative cricket league globally, gets underway.
The inaugural WPL, per the BCCI’s recent communication to the franchises, is likely to be staged at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai and the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. The two venues hosted the five-T20I series between India and Australia last month which the visitors won 4-1, with a 47,000-strong record domestic crowd turning up at the second T20I in Navi Mumbai.Five, with one each in Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad and Lucknow.
The two other franchises went to newcomers with Adani Sportsline, the sports wing of Indian billionaire industrialist Gautan Adani’s Adani Group, shelling out a whopping US$158m, to acquire the Ahmedabad-based Gujarat Giants. India-based Capri Global scooped up the Lucknow Warriors for US$93m.IPL chairman Arun Dhumal confirmed it will feature 22 matches with each of the five teams playing the other twice; that makes it a total of eight games per side.
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