While the ultimate resolution on venues is anticipated on December 9, there are sturdy indications that matches will probably be unfold throughout Mumbai and Bengaluru, diverging from the single-city method within the inaugural WPL held earlier this yr.
A BCCI official, talking on the situation of anonymity to PTI, revealed, “The final decision (about venues) might come on December 9 (the day of the WPL auction) but it is highly likely that this year it (WPL) will follow the multi-city format with Mumbai and Bengaluru being the front-runners at this moment.”
The inaugural WPL, held between March 4 and 26, came about solely on the DY Patil Stadium and the Brabourne Stadium. The transfer in the direction of a multi-city format goals to broaden the attain of girls’s cricket and capitalise on the rising curiosity within the sport.
Bengaluru, with its enthusiastic viewers for girls’s cricket, notably boosted by the success of the RCB girls’s staff, stands out as a powerful contender for internet hosting WPL matches. Officials from Mumbai and Karnataka cricket associations have additionally expressed their readiness to host the video games.
RCB girls’s staff captain Smriti Mandhana, a vocal supporter of the multi-city format, emphasised its potential to achieve new audiences.
“It would be great to have WPL in a multi-city format. That might be the next step, and I am sure people right here would look into it and make it happen,” Mandhana acknowledged throughout a current RCB Innovation Lab’s Leaders Meet India.
The transfer in the direction of a multi-city format is seen as a strategic step to increase the footprint of ladies’s cricket and create a extra dynamic and interesting surroundings for gamers and followers alike.
The WPL public sale on December 9 is anticipated to unveil additional particulars about this thrilling growth.
(With inputs from PTI)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com