Inaugural version of Women’s IPL to be held in March 2023

The much-awaited Women’s IPL can be ranging from March 2023 to be held in a one-month window and in all chance with 5 groups, a senior BCCI official confirmed the event on Friday.

The BCCI bigwigs have mentioned the difficulty and a March window has been discovered for the match after the Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa.”Yes, the WIPL will begin within the first week of March and we now have earmarked a four-week window for the primary yr. The T20 World Cup in South Africa is from February 9 to 26 and instantly after that we plan to carry the WIPL,” a senior BCCI official aware of the event instructed PTI on circumstances of anonymity.

“As of now, we are going ahead with five teams but it could be six as there is a lot of interest among potential investors. In due course of time, the process of auctioning of teams will be announced,” he added.

Both BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah in separate interviews to PTI had earlier confirmed that 2023 is the yr when WIPL would begin.Quite a lot of cricket lovers imagine that WIPL will herald a revolution and the usual of ladies’s cricket in India can have a quantum leap.

“I am thrilled at the kind of response we have got from the stakeholders. Multiple existing IPL teams have enquired and expressed serious interest in owning WIPL franchises,” Shah had mentioned in an interview to PTI a while again.

Before that, Ganguly had additionally expressed his confidence concerning the begin of the WIPL in 2023.” I strongly imagine that subsequent yr i.e. 2023 can be an excellent time to start out a full-fledged girls’s IPL which can be as massive and grand successful as males’s IPL,” he had mentioned.

It is known that groups like Mumbai Indians, Rajasthan Royals, and Chennai Super Kings have all expressed their curiosity in shopping for groups. Even UTV massive boss Ronnie Screwvala had tweeted that he can be occupied with shopping for a WIPL franchise.