BCCI plans to start women’s IPL next year

BCCI president Sourav Ganguly. Pic/AFP

The BCCI is planning to start the Women's IPL by 2023, Board President Sourav Ganguly said on Friday while four exhibition games make a return this season after a one-year gap. The BCCI, which has been criticised in the past for not starting the Women's IPL, will need AGM's approval to kickstart the league next season.

The Board is planning to have five or six teams in the inaugural edition. All the existing 10 men's IPL franchises will be given the first right of refusal to buy the Women's IPL teams. It is learnt that at least four men's IPL franchises are interested in knowing from the BCCI what is on the table in case they want to invest in a women's IPL. "It [the full-fledged women's IPL] has to be approved by the AGM. We plan to start it by next year hopefully," Ganguly told reporters after the IPL Governing Council meeting in Mumbai on Friday.

IPL chairman Brijesh Patel also made it clear that there will be four matches for the three women teams around men's IPL playoffs this season. "There will be four matches involving three teams around the time of the playoffs," Patel said after the meeting. With the second half of the IPL being shifted to the UAE due to the pandemic, the exhibition games were not held last year.

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