How Women’s Premier League stacks up against other top sports leagues

Ever because the announcement of the Womens Premier League (WPL) was made final yr, it has been whole-heartedly welcomed by all stakeholders in womens cricket.

With lower than a fortnight left for the match to kick off in Mumbai, the WPL is ready to offer powerful competitors to other top ladies’s franchise cricket leagues just like the groundbreaking Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) in Australia and The Hundred in England.

But how does the WPL stand as in comparison with the WBBL or The Hundred? We have a look:

Total variety of gamers concerned: Ahead of the inaugural participant public sale, ninety locations, together with 30 for abroad gamers, have been up for grabs. Now, WPL will see 87 gamers competing within the match, together with all abroad slots stuffed up.

Delhi Capitals, Gujarat Giants and Royal Challengers Bangalore stuffed all their 18 slots whereas Mumbai Indians and UP Warriorz signed up 17 and 16 gamers respectively within the participant public sale.

WBBL, on the other hand, has 16-member squads for all eight groups, together with three abroad gamers in every crew. Usually, an inventory supervisor is employed to signal up gamers on contracts operating for a yr or greater than that.

The Hundred is made up of 15 gamers, of whom a most of 4 might be abroad gamers. Players are signed utilizing a draft system widespread in other franchise leagues and groups can retain an infinite variety of gamers in addition to signal anybody from the world.

Number of matches: WPL could have 22 matches in a double round-robin format to be performed in DY Patil Stadium and Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. The top three groups will transfer to the knockouts. The second and third positioned groups will play an eliminator earlier than going through the top-ranked crew from the league stage within the closing.

The league stage of WBBL includes 56 matches. Each crew performs 14 round-robin fixtures – two every against the other seven sides within the competitors. The top 4 groups from the league part advance to the Finals sequence.

The third and fourth positioned groups meet within the eliminator. The winner from that sport faces the second-placed crew within the challenger. Whoever comes out on top will then meet the top-ranked crew within the closing.

The Hundred has eight city-based groups competing in 24 matches within the ladies’s league stage (curtailed in 2022 attributable to Commonwealth Games in Birmingham). Most males’s and ladies’s matches have been held on the identical day on the similar grounds, with one ticket giving followers entry to each ties.

Once the league stage was accomplished, the top three groups went to the knockout stage. The second and third groups meet in a semi-final. The winner of the semi-final then meets the crew that completed on top of the league within the closing.

Total variety of groups concerned: From the ten IPL franchises, solely three managed to get WPL franchises – Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals. The other two groups are Gujarat Giants and UP Warriorz, owned by Adani Sportsline, an arm of the Adani Group and Capri Global respectively.

In the WBBL, the competitors options the identical eight city-based franchises that make up the Big Bash League (BBL), with Melbourne and Sydney having two groups every. They are the Adelaide Strikers, Brisbane Heat, Hobart Hurricanes, Melbourne Renegades, Melbourne Stars, Perth Scorchers, Sydney Sixers and Sydney Thunder.

In May 2019, for The Hundred, it was revealed that the eight city-based groups could be taking the identical names as the boys’s competitors — Welsh Fire, London Spirit, Manchester Originals, Oval Invincibles, Trent Rockets, Birmingham Phoenix, Northern Superchargers, and Southern Brave.

Coaching employees: A WBBL teaching employees has typically obtained a head coach, assistant coach, energy & conditioning coach and physiotherapist. Coaches in The Hundred comprise of head coach and one or two assistant coaches.

In the WPL, there is a head coach, assistant coach, or batting, bowling, and fielding coaches, other than mentors. Like Mithali Raj is mentor-adviser of Gujarat Giants or Jhulan Goswami has twin obligations of bowling coach and mentor.

Governance construction: On February 19, 2015, Cricket Australia (CA), the nation’s cricketing physique, introduced that the WBBL would begin later within the yr. The league is at the moment underneath the entire possession of CA.

All eight groups in The Hundred are centrally owned by the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB), with the salaries of gamers and coaches paid by the nation’s cricket’s governing physique. For the WPL, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) would be the administrator, which additionally does the job of organising the Indian Premier League.

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