Alyssa Healy hopes for girls’s IPL after USD 1.7 billion windfall for BCCI

The Indian Premier League (IPL) on Monday unveiled two new groups for the T20 competitors, with the Lucknow and Ahmedabad franchises offered for a mixed 127.15 billion Indian rupees ($1.7 billion).

The RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, which owned the now-defunct Pune franchise for 2 IPL campaigns, bid 70.9 billion Indian rupees for the Lucknow outfit whereas Irelia Company Pte. Ltd. (CVC Capital Partners) bid somewhat over 56 billion Indian rupees for the Ahmedabad aspect.Australia’s star cricketer Alyssa Healy is hoping that the BCCI makes use of part of its latest $12.7 thousand crore windfall to begin a full-fledged Indian Premier League (IPL) for the ladies within the close to future.Aware of the event, Healy advised ‘The Australian’ on Thursday, “They (BCCI) have made all those moves and there’s still no word on whether they are even going to play the postponed exhibition games.“They just got a $2 billion payday and hopefully some of that will go back into women’s cricket and maybe a women’s IPL in the near future.“ We want to see it happen, we want to see world cricket really strong and that’s the next step, for India to put on a showcase of an event and show the world how good these young Indian players are.”Both groups will compete within the competitors from the 2022 version, which could have 10 groups and 74 matches the place both sides will play seven house and 7 away video games.The league had accredited a proposal in December so as to add two franchises to the world’s richest T20 competitors, which has an estimated model worth of $6.8 billion.“I feel like I have made some thoughts known in the past about the way that has unfolded.“From a personal perspective it was disappointing they postponed the women’s exhibition games. They did everything they possibly could to put the back end of the IPL on (after it was abandoned in April) leading into a World Cup and then within a week of that starting they have two new men’s IPL teams,” Healy mentioned.“Hopefully, it might start the conversation back in India about the women’s IPL. I know they would be really excited to see more of those exhibition games.“A women’s IPL would be ideal, but just to showcase the talent they have got. I would just love to see them get as much opportunity as possible,” Healy mentioned.Healy is at the moment enjoying within the seventh version of the ladies’s Big Bash League, representing Sydney Sixers, which additionally has Indian cricketers Shafali Verma and Radha Yadav.Besides Shafali and Radha, Poonam Yadav (Adelaide Strikers), Smriti Mandhana and Deepti Sharma (Sydney Thunder), Richa Ghosh (Hobart Hurricanes), Jemimah Rodrigues and Harmanpreet Kaur (Melbourne Renegades) kind the remainder of the Indian contingent within the WBBL.