The BCCI is making plans to begin the Girls’s IPL by way of 2023, Board President Sourav Ganguly mentioned on Friday whilst 4 exhibition video games make a go back this season after a one-year hole.
The BCCI, which has been criticised previously for now not beginning the Girls’s IPL, will want AGM’s approval to kickstart the league subsequent season.
The Board is making plans to have 5 or 6 groups within the inaugural version.
“It (the full-fledged ladies’s IPL) needs to be licensed by way of the AGM. We plan to begin it by way of subsequent yr expectantly,” BCCI president Sourav Ganguly advised newshounds after the IPL Governing Council assembly right here on Friday.
In an interview to PTI in February, Ganguly had mentioned that Girls’s IPL might be introduced in 2023.
IPL chairman Brijesh Patel additionally made it transparent that this season there might be 4 suits for the 3 ladies groups round males’s IPL play-offs.
“There might be 4 suits involving 3 groups across the time of the playoffs,” Patel mentioned after the assembly.
With the second one part of the IPL being shifted to the UAE because of the pandemic, the exhibitions video games weren’t held closing yr. On the other hand, they had been staged within the UAE in 2020 when IPL Trailblazers received the name.
In line with Patel, there can be 5 or 6 groups within the Girls’s IPL however once more that would wish approval of the Normal Frame.
The possibly venue for the ladies’s exhibitions video games is Pune.
The IPL begins on Saturday with protecting champions Chennai Tremendous Kings up towards Kolkata Knight Riders on the iconic Wankhede stadium.
IPL MEDIA RIGHTS
The problem of IPL media rights for the 2023-2027 cycle used to be additionally mentioned by way of the Governing Council.
“The mushy might be out quickly,” mentioned a Governing Council member.
Megastar India had paid a whopping Rs 16,347.5 crore for the 2018-2022 cycle. With the league’s reputation hovering and the addition of 2 new groups, that quantity may just contact a staggering Rs 40,000 crore for the approaching five-year cycle.
Corporations inquisitive about securing the rights to India cricket’s freshest belongings come with Reliance subsidized Viacom 18, present proper holders Disney Megastar, Sony (which had paid Rs 8200 for 9 years, again in 2009) and streaming massive Amazon which might bid for the virtual rights.
