The squads for the inaugural season of the Women's IPL - referred to as the 2023 Women's T20 League in the paper sent to players by the BCCI - will be chosen through a player auction in February.
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The squads for the inaugural season of the Women’s IPL – referred to as the 2023 Women’s T20 League in the paper sent to players by the BCCI – will be chosen through a player auction in February. The BCCI has requested that both capped and uncapped cricketers register online to enter the Player Auction Register by 5 p.m. on January 26 in the rules document handed out to Indian players.
There are three reverse price’ categories among the capped players – INR 50 lakh, INR 40 lakh, and INR 30 lakh – that will serve as the starting point for bidding. The hammer price at the end of the bidding procedure will equal the contracted fee of any player for the competition. There are two pricing categories for uncapped players: INR 20 lakh and INR 10 lakh. The ‘Auction Register’ will next be pruned by the five yet-to-be-established franchises to generate an ‘Auction List,’ which will then be placed for bidding in accordance with existing IPL standards.
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Those who do not win the auction but have entered the ‘Registered Available Player Pool’ will get a second chance. The BCCI has already postponed the tournament’s media rights auction by four days, and it will now take place on January 16, while the Governing Council of IPL has also announced the release of the ITT to purchase the rights to own and run a team in the competition, with a deadline of January 21. The highly anticipated debut season will begin in the first week of March as a double round-robin event.
Since 2018, the BCCI has run the Women’s T20 Challenge alongside the IPL in an attempt to test the waters before expanding. The previous administration, led by Ganguly, has previously claimed a lack of depth in players as an impediment to holding a full-fledged tournament. Since the WIPL’s formal announcement, a number of existing IPL teams have been sending out talent scouts to find players they may potentially sign for the women’s league if they are awarded the rights to own a franchise. The Rajasthan Royals, Mumbai Indians, Kolkata Knight Riders, Royal Challengers Bangalore, and Punjab Kings all rumoured to be interested in acquiring a WIPL team.
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