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Adani, Indiawin Sports, RCB, JSW-GMR, Capri Global wins bids for Women’s Premier League groups

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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has accepted franchises for the 5 groups within the Women’s Indian Premier League (WIPL), with a complete bid worth of Rs 4,669 crore.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Jan 25, 2023 15:39 IST

Adani, MI, RCB, GMR, Capri to personal groups in Women’s Premier League (Courtesy of BCCI/PTI)

By India Today Web Desk: BCCI Secretary Jay Shah took to Twitter to announce that the inaugural ladies’s IPL bids surpassed the bids from males’s IPL franchises in 2008, forward of the league’s inaugural season. The Board has accepted franchises for the 5 groups within the Women’s Indian Premier League (WIPL), with a complete bid worth of Rs 4,669 crore.

“Today is a historic day in cricket as the bidding for teams of the inaugural #WPL broke the records of the inaugural Men’s IPL in 2008! Congratulations to the winners as we garnered Rs.4669.99 Cr in the total bid,” tweeted BCCI Secretary Jay Shah.

𝐁𝐂𝐂𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞.

The mixed bid valuation is INR 4669.99 Cr

A have a look at the Five franchises with possession rights for #WPL pic.twitter.com/ryF7W1BvHH
— BCCI (@BCCI) January 25, 2023

The 5 cities collaborating within the inaugural Women’s Premier League are Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi, and Lucknow. Adani Group, India’s main enterprise conglomerate, acquired the Ahmedabad franchise by its sports activities enterprise Adani Sportsline Pvt Ltd. The Ahmedabad group additionally acquired the best bid of INR 1289 crore.

Indiawin Sports Pvt Lt paid INR 912.99 crores for the Mumbai franchise. Similarly, the Royal Challengers group, which owns Bengaluru’s males’s group, received the bid for the town within the ladies’s version of the T20 league, spending INR 901 crores.

An analogous sample was noticed for the Delhi franchise, the place the JSW group – house owners of the Capitals group within the males’s event – efficiently bid for INR 810 crore. Meanwhile, Capri Global is the brand new entrant, having spent INR 757 crores to accumulate the Lucknow franchise.

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Jan 25, 2023