BCCI plans to begin ladies’s IPL by 2023, this season may have 4 exhibition video games

The BCCI is planning to begin the Women’s IPL by 2023, Board President Sourav Ganguly mentioned on Friday whereas 4 exhibition video games make a return this season after a one-year hole.

The BCCI, which has been criticised up to now for not beginning the Women’s IPL, will want AGM’s approval to kickstart the league subsequent season.

The Board is planning to have 5 or 6 groups within the inaugural version.

“It (the full-fledged women’s IPL) has to be approved by the AGM. We plan to start it by next year hopefully,” BCCI president Sourav Ganguly advised reporters after the IPL Governing Council assembly right here on Friday.

In an interview to PTI in February, Ganguly had mentioned that Women’s IPL will likely be launched in 2023.

IPL chairman Brijesh Patel additionally made it clear that this season there will likely be 4 matches for the three ladies groups round males’s IPL play-offs.

“There will be four matches involving three teams around the time of the playoffs,” Patel mentioned after the assembly.

With the second half of the IPL being shifted to the UAE because of the pandemic, the exhibitions video games weren’t held final 12 months. However, they have been staged within the UAE in 2020 when IPL Trailblazers gained the title.

According to Patel, there can be 5 or 6 groups within the Women’s IPL however once more that would wish approval of the General Body.

The almost certainly venue for the ladies’s exhibitions video games is Pune.

The IPL begins on Saturday with defending champions Chennai Super Kings up towards Kolkata Knight Riders on the iconic Wankhede stadium.

IPL MEDIA RIGHTS

The difficulty of IPL media rights for the 2023-2027 cycle was additionally mentioned by the Governing Council.

“The tender will be out soon,” mentioned a Governing Council member.

Star India had paid a whopping Rs 16,347.5 crore for the 2018-2022 cycle. With the league’s recognition hovering and the addition of two new groups, that quantity may contact a staggering Rs 40,000 crore for the upcoming five-year cycle.

Companies excited about securing the rights to India cricket’s hottest property embody Reliance backed Viacom 18, present proper holders Disney Star, Sony (which had paid Rs 8200 for 9 years, again in 2009) and streaming large Amazon which may bid for the digital rights.