Expected First Women’s IPL Games to Take Place March 3–26

IPL 2023 is set to begin on April 1, and the first Women’s IPL season is expected to run from March 3 to March 26. The IPL 2023 season will begin on April 1. Both of the competitions are going to be held in India.

The BCCI has not yet finalised the calendar, but it has outlined a frame for the Women’s Indian Premier League (WIPL), which will begin one week after the final of the 2023 Women’s Twenty20 World Cup, which will be held in Cape Town on February 2.

According to ESPNcricinfo, the BCCI is currently determining the availability of foreign players in relation to the Indian Premier League before deciding when the league would come to a close.

After being postponed because of the constraints imposed by the Covid-19 epidemic, the 10-team competition will get back to its home-and-away format.

Because England and Ireland will play their final Test match at Lord’s from June 1 to 4, the BCCI will presumably try to wrap up the Indian Premier League by the end of May at the latest.

A few days later, the final of the second ICC World Test Championship will take place at The Oval. India will get an opportunity to compete in this tournament. The beginning of the Ashes is on June 16 at that time.

On Friday, the BCCI announced the opening of the media-rights tender for the first five seasons of the Women’s Indian Premier League (2023-2027). In spite of the fact that the deadline for picking up the contract is December 31, 2022, it has been determined that the bids will be opened somewhere around January 8.

The BCCI has decided against holding an online auction and will instead go with the closed-bid format.

It has been uncovered that the BCCI has not fixed a starting price for any of the three categories for which rights will be sold. These three categories include television, digital, and a combination of the two. When the bidders finally get their hands on the tender paperwork, they’ll have access to additional details.

In October of this year, the BCCI presented the WIPL with a strategy that was developed in collaboration with its members, the state associations. At the board’s Annual General Meeting, this proposal was given the go-ahead for implementation.

In order to compete in the league, the five franchise teams would need to play a combined total of 22 games, as stipulated by the proposal. Each team is permitted to have a maximum of 18 players, with a maximum of six players from other nations, and each starting XI is permitted to have a maximum of five players from other countries (four from Full Member countries and one from an Associate nation).

During the league stage of the WIPL, each team will face off against the other twice (for a total of 20 matches), and the team with the best record will move on to the championship game without having to play in the semifinals.

A matchup between the two clubs that finished in second and third place in the league will determine the other participant in the finals.

After that, in accordance with the timetable established by the BCCI, an invitation to submit bids for each of the five franchises will be issued. In contrast to the men’s IPL, which invites franchisees to submit bids for teams in certain cities, the BCCI has developed two brand-new designs specifically for the women’s Indian Premier League (WIPL).

The first one entailed sales teams travelling across the country to a total of six different time zones. Among the cities in each zone that have been shortlisted are Dharamsala and Jammu for the North zone, Pune and Rajkot for the West zone, Indore, Nagpur, and Raipur for the Central zone, Ranchi and Cuttack for the East zone, Kochi and Vishakapatnam for the South zone, and Guwahati for the South zone (North-East).

The second plan is to sell teams without supplying them with a permanent home base and to schedule IPL games in the six cities of Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, and Kolkata in addition to Mumbai. These cities have been shortlisted for the opportunity to host the tournament.

The BCCI has not yet made a decision regarding whether the squad will be assembled through an auction or a draught, which is the final step in the process. The PCB has not yet made public a specific timetable for the competition; however, the WPSL final will be held on March 18.