Seven IPL franchises show interest in buying teams for the inaugural Women’s IPL

The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) has determined to make a world T20 league for feminine cricketers alongside the strains of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in type of Ladies’s IPL.

As per the word despatched by the BCCI to state associations, the ladies’s IPL will characteristic 20 league video games with the 5 groups enjoying one another twice. The desk toppers will earn a direct entry into the ultimate, whereas the second and third-place groups will battle out within the Eliminator. Both sides can have 18 gamers with a most of six from international nations.

The BCCI is mulling a base value of near INR 400 crore for Ladies’s IPL franchises. It was the identical base value that the Indian cricket board set for Males’s IPL franchises again in 2008.

As reported by InsideSport, Chennai Tremendous Kings (CSK) and Mumbai Indians (MI) can have their WIPL groups and are prepared to choose up tender paperwork as quickly as BCCI proclaims it.

5 different IPL franchises particularly – Delhi Capitals (DC), Rajasthan Royals (RR), Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Punjab Kings (PBKS) have additionally knowledgeable the BCCI of their want to area a girls’s group.

I do know Smriti desires to play for CSK: Kate Cross

England pacer Kate Cross, who can also be a famend CSK fan, hopes that if the franchise enters the Ladies’s IPL and owns a group, she would get to play for them every time the event occurs.

“I might clearly like to play in Chepauk. I don’t know which groups would have a girls’s group, however hopefully if CSK might have a girls’s group that might be unbelievable. I do know Smriti desires to play for them, so if Smriti [Mandhana] is my captain, I might be very proud of that. However once more, it’s a very long time away. I can’t simply come and play for CSK simply because I’m an enormous fan. I’ve obtained to be good at cricket as effectively. Hopefully, I’ve obtained the chance to show myself and perhaps get the chance subsequent 12 months.”