Women's IPL News

Here's all you need to know about Women's Premier League 2023 Auction.

Ever since its announcement, WPL has received a joyous, highly-welcoming response from the women's cricket fraternity, which hopes that it takes their game to higher heights.

Meet all the 5 franchises of the inaugural Women's Premier League as BCCI surprises itself with a massive earning at the WIPL franchises auction, Read more details inside 

While the announcement of WIPL team owners will be done on Wednesday (January 25), the technical bids of the 30 companies who have picked up the ‘Invitation To Tender’ (ITT) document for become the owners of WIPL teams will be done on Monday (January 23).

According to the BCCI, one of the requirements for qualifying specified in the tender document is that the bidder's audited net worth must be at least INR 1000 crore as of March 31, 2022.

In their home territory this time from February 9 onwards, Team India will be looking forward to preying on the Aussies, which has not won a Test series in India since 2004.

Not to forget, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah had earlier confirmed that WIPL can be held in 2023. The demand for the Women's IPL has been growing ever since Indian women's cricket started winning big series and tournaments

Mithali Raj knew her time had come after the 2022 World Cup in New Zealand but since she doesn't like to take big decisions in a jiffy, the 39-year-old waited for couple of months before announcing her retirement. 

The BCCI has recently indicated that it was planning to start a league for women players in 2023.

The Women’s T20 Challenge will continue this year, but BCCI secretary Jay Shah said things would change soon.

Here's a list of wishes an Indian sports fan hopes come true in the new year. 

Indian cricketer Jhulan Goswami believes that a full-fledged Women`s IPL will be a big achievement for the country. The 37-year-old thinks that it will especially help the younger players as they will get to share the dressing room with the top-notch established cricketers. Jhulan, who is the world`s highest wicket-taker in ODI cricket, further said that age is just a number and she is enjoying herself in the game.

Jasia will represent Trailblazers, led by Indian batswoman Smriti Mandhana, in the first women's IPL. 

For a women's IPL, the general standard of the game needs to be good and Mithali feels that it has happened as the statistics of this World Cup suggests.

It was only on Monday that Mithali, speaking to ESPNcricinfo, talked about the importance of a women's league and how the Big Bash League has been helpful for players like Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana.

Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana, two of India's WWC 2017 stars, have already played in WBBL T20 league in Australia.