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The world’s most prosperous cricket board received additional richer by $572.72 million (AED 2.1 billion) after unveiling 5 franchises for an Indian Premier League-style T20 event for ladies on Wednesday.
Since 2018, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) has been staging a three-team Women’s T20 Challenge alongside the vastly common IPL for males and confronted calls for to begin a full-fledged ladies’s event.
The house owners of IPL’s Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore franchises are among the many 5 entities who bought groups within the Women’s Premier League (WPL), which shall be performed in March.
The Adani group made the best bid of roughly $158 million to purchase the Ahmedabad franchise, whereas Capri Global Holdings Private Limited agreed to pay $92.84 million for Lucknow.
“Today is a historic day in cricket as the bidding for teams of inaugural WPL broke the records of the inaugural men’s IPL in 2008,” tweeted BCCI secretary Jay Shah.
“This marks the beginning of a revolution in women’s cricket and paves the way for a transformative journey ahead not only for our women cricketers but for the entire sports fraternity.”
The BCCI has already offered the event’s media rights for the following 5 years to Viacom 18 for $117 million which interprets into per-match-value of $870,393.
“This is a historic moment for Indian cricket, and we are delighted to be a part of it,” mentioned Nita Ambani of Mumbai Indians, which additionally owns groups in males’s T20 tournaments in South Africa and the United Arab Emirates.
Former India captain Mithali Raj predicted “exciting times” for ladies’s cricket, whereas England batter Danni Wyatt and former Australia all-rounder Lisa Sthalekar additionally took to Twitter to welcome the brand new event.
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