The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has put aside a window for the first-ever edition of the Women’s Indian Premier League (WIPL) in March 2023.
According to a report in ESPNcricinfo, the Indian apex board has modified the girls’s home cricket calendar to make approach for Women’s IPL. The girls’s season that normally goes on from November to April has been superior by a month, with the season set to start on October 11 with a T20 competitors and finish in February subsequent 12 months with an inter-zonal ODI competitors.
Not to say, BCCI has been staging the Women’s T20 Challenge since 2018, besides in 2021, when it was cancelled resulting from the COVID pandemic. The T20 Challenge, which began as a one-off exhibition match between two groups in the first season, has now turn out to be a three-team competitors.
Many girls cricket stars from round the globe have additionally joined the competitors. No surprise the followers have been demanding a greater event similar to the males’s edition of IPL.
Notably, in February earlier this 12 months, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly had already given hints and stated that the girls’s IPL could be held in 2023.
“We are at the level of formulation to have a full-fledged WIPL. It is certainly going to happen. I strongly believe that next year, i.e. 2023, will be a very good time to start a full-fledged women’s IPL, which will be as big and grand a success as men’s IPL,” Ganguly had stated.
A number of months later, BCCI secretary Jay Shah had additionally given indications relating to a five- or six-team event, saying: “I am thrilled at the kind of response we have got from stakeholders. Multiple existing IPL teams have enquired and expressed serious interest in owning WIPL franchises.”
