Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary Jay Shah stated on Tuesday the Girls’s Premier League will set a template for different sports activities to comply with go well with, similar to it occurred with males’s Indian Premier League and it’ll revolutionise the way in which folks have a look at girls’s cricket. The public sale for the inaugural version of the Girls’s Premier League (WPL) version was carried out efficiently on Monday.

“The WPL goes to revolutionise the way in which we have a look at girls’s cricket. The large success of the WPL public sale has not solely given a possibility to many potential expertise to showcase their abilities on the large stage but in addition to younger budding cricketers to take centerstage on a world stage. The reception from followers around the globe has been overwhelmingly constructive and this may solely proceed to develop because the league matures. The WPL will set a template for different sports activities to comply with go well with. We noticed what occurred with the lads’s IPL and the way different sporting leagues cropped up after 2008. The WPL will guarantee the expansion of multi-genre sport amongst girls,” Shah informed ANI.

Shah stated that WPL was created not solely as a platform for girls in India and internationally to showcase and hone their cricket, but in addition to encourage the following era of girls to make skilled sports activities a profession possibility.

“And not using a ball being bowled, the WPL is the most important sporting league. With girls’s cricket effectively on its strategy to cement itself in mainstream sports activities, the WPL will solely fortify the ecosystem round girls’s cricket. The preliminary response to the WPL has positively showcased the potential the league has to grow to be the most important girls’s home sporting event,” added Shah.

The inaugural version of WPL will probably be performed in Mumbai from March 4 to 26 throughout two Mumbai venues and the participant public sale for a similar will probably be held on February 13.

A complete of 1,525 gamers registered for the inaugural WPL public sale and the ultimate record was pruned to 409 gamers.

The 5 franchises — Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore, and Delhi Capitals –were acquired by the house owners of the three IPL groups together with Adani Group and Capri World for a complete of INR 4669.99 crore (about USD 572.78 million). This represents the most important deal ever made in girls’s cricket. The profitable bidders have been introduced on January 25.

Listed here are all of the up to date squads of WPL groups:

Delhi Capitals:Jemimah Rodrigues, Meg Lanning, Shafali Verma, Radha Yadav, Shikha Pandey, Marizanne Kapp, Titas Sadhu, Alice Capsey, Tara Norris, Laura Harris, Jasia Akhtar, Minnu Mani, Poonam Yadav, Taniya Bhatia. Jess Jonassen, Sneha Deepthi, Arundhati Reddy, Aparna Mondal.

Gujarat Giants:Ashleigh Gardner, Beth Mooney, Sophia Dunkley, Annabel Sutherland, Harleen Deol, Deandra Dottin, Sneh Rana, S Meghana, Georgia Wareham, Mansi Joshi, Dayalan Hemalatha, Monica Patel, Tanuja Kanwer, Sushma Verma, Hurley Gala, Ashwani Kumari, Parunika Sisodia, Shabman Shakil.

Mumbai Indians:Harmanpreet Kaur, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Amelia Kerr, Pooja Vastrakar, Yastika Bhatia, Heather Graham, Issy Wong, Amanjot Kaur, Dhara Gujjar, Saika Ishaque, Hayley Matthews, Chloe Tryon, Priyanka Bala, Humairaa Kaazi, Neelam Bisht, Jintamani Kalita, Sonam Yadav.

Royal Challengers Bangalore:Smriti Mandhana, Sophie Devine, Ellyse Perry, Renuka Singh, Richa Ghosh, Indrani Roy, Disha Kasat, Shreyanka Patil, Kanika Ahuja, Asha Shobhana, Erin Burns, Heather Knight, Dane van Niekerk, Preeti Bose, Poonam Khemnar, Komal Zanzad, Megan Schutt, Sahana Pawar.

UP Warriorz:Sophie Ecclestone, Deepti Sharma, Tahlia McGrath, Shabnim Ismail, Alyssa Healy, Anjali Sarvani, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Parshavi Chopra, Shweta Sehrawat, S Yashasri, Kiran Navgire, Grace Harris, Devika Vaidya, Lauren Bell, Laxmi Yadav, Simran Shaikh.

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