Women's Premier League 2023: Teams, Schedule and Facts
The TATA WPL, or Women's Premier League, is a highly anticipated women's Twenty20 cricket franchise league in India. The Board of Control for Cricket in India operates and owns it. The very first season of the WPL will take place in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai from March 4th to March 26th, 2023, with five franchises participating.
Women will be able to attend matches for free during the first season. The opening ceremony at DY Patil stadium in Navi Mumbai will feature performances by AP Dhillon, Kriti Sanon, and Kiara Advani.
The Women's T20 Challenge was India's first prominent women's Twenty20 competition. This began as a single-match competition in 2018 and was expanded to a three-team, three-match competition in 2019, 2020, and 2022.
BCCI President Sourav Ganguly announced plans in February 2022 to create a women's version of the Indian Premier League (IPL), India's significant men's Twenty20 contest, to replace the Women's T20 Challenge. By August, plans had progressed, and in October, the BCCI declared that it was considering a five-team tournament in March 2023. The Women's Indian Premier League was the league's informal name until January 25, 2023, when the BCCI officially renamed it the Women's Premier League.
The BCCI welcomed bids for the league's title advertising deals rights till 2027 January 28, 2023. These were sold to the Tata Group for an undisclosed sum.
| WPL Team |
City |
WPL Owners |
WPL Captain |
WPL Head coach |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delhi Capitals |
New Delhi |
JSW Group–GMR Group |
Meg Lanning |
Jonathan Batty |
| Gujarat Giants |
Ahmedabad |
Adani Group |
Beth Mooney |
Rachael Haynes |
| Mumbai Indians |
Mumbai |
Indiawin Sports |
Harmanpreet Kaur |
Charlotte Edwards |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore |
Bangalore |
Diageo |
Smriti Mandhana |
Ben Sawyer |
| UP Warriorz |
Lucknow |
Capri Global |
Alyssa Healy |
Jon Lewis |
The WPL league structure is modeled after that of the IPL. There will initially be five teams. The teams will compete in a double round-robin format, with the three teams with the most points progressing to the tournament's playoff stages. If the league is a success, the Board intends to increase the number of matches and franchises in future seasons.
The league's first season is set to take place from March 4 to March 26, 2023, and will include 22 matches played at Mumbai's Brabourne Stadium and DY Patil Stadium. A team may have a maximum of five overseas players in each match, one of whom must be from an ICC Associate Nation.
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Date |
Time |
Match |
Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
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March 4, 2023 |
19:30 PM |
Gujarat Giants Vs Mumbai Indians |
DY Patil Stadium |
|
March 5, 2023 |
15:30 PM |
RCB Vs Delhi Capitals |
Brabourne Stadium |
|
March 5, 2023 |
19:30 PM |
UP Warriorz Vs Gujarat Giants |
DY Patil Stadium |
|
March 6, 2023 |
19:30 PM |
Mumbai Indians Vs RCB |
Brabourne Stadium |
|
March 7, 2023 |
19:30 PM |
Delhi Capitals Vs UP Warriorz |
DY Patil Stadium |
|
March 8, 2023 |
19:30 PM |
Gujarat Giants Vs RCB |
Brabourne Stadium |
|
March 9, 2023 |
19:30 PM |
Delhi Capitals Vs Mumbai Indians |
DY Patil Stadium |
|
March 10, 2023 |
19:30 PM |
RCB Vs UP Warriorz |
Brabourne Stadium |
|
March 11, 2023 |
19:30 PM |
Gujarat Giants Vs Delhi Capitals |
DY Patil Stadium |
|
March 12, 2023 |
19:30 PM |
UP Warriorz Vs Mumbai Indians |
Brabourne Stadium |
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March 13, 2023 |
19:30 PM |
Delhi Capitals Vs RCB |
DY Patil Stadium |
|
March 14, 2023 |
19:30 PM |
Mumbai Indians Vs Gujarat Giants |
Brabourne Stadium |
|
March 15, 2023 |
19:30 PM |
UP Warriorz Vs RCB |
DY Patil Stadium |
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March 16, 2023 |
19:30 PM |
Delhi Capitals Vs Gujarat Giants |
Brabourne Stadium |
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March 18, 2023 |
15:30 PM |
Mumbai Indians Vs UP Warriorz |
DY Patil Stadium |
|
March 18, 2023 |
19:30 PM |
RCB Vs Gujarat Giants |
Brabourne Stadium |
|
March 20, 2023 |
15:30 PM |
Gujarat Giants Vs UP Warriorz |
Brabourne Stadium |
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March 20, 2023 |
19:30 PM |
Mumbai Indians Vs Delhi Capitals |
DY Patil Stadium |
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March 21, 2023 |
15:30 PM |
RCB Vs Mumbai Indians |
DY Patil Stadium |
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March 21, 2023 |
19:30 PM |
UP Warriorz Vs Delhi Capitals |
Brabourne Stadium |
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March 24, 2023 |
19:30 PM |
Eliminator |
DY Patil Stadium |
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March 26, 2023 |
19:30 PM |
Final |
Brabourne Stadium |
According to Ampere Analytics' Jack Genovese, the WPL league is the world's second most valuable women's sports league, trailing only the Women's National Basketball Association in the United States.
Three out of the five franchises have teams in the men's IPL: Royal Challengers Bangalore, Delhi Capitals, and Mumbai Indians.
The very first auction to purchase players for every franchise was held in Mumbai on February 13, 2023. Around 1,500 players registered for the auction. Each franchise had a budget of 12 crores to spend on 15 to 18 players, six of whom could be foreign players.
At the first auction, the starting price for an uncapped player ranged between 10 and 20 lacks. It ranged between 30 and 40 lacks for capped players.
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