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'Breaking barriers, historic day' Twitter goes berserk as BCCI announces Women's Premier League franchises

FirstCricket Staff • January 25, 2023, 17:18:03 IST
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While four of the five entities to have won the ownership rights already own a team in the Men’s IPL, the Adani group have finally won a bid at IPL auctions after years of losing.

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'Breaking barriers, historic day' Twitter goes berserk as BCCI announces Women's Premier League franchises

After all the hiatus and hara-kiri, the BCCI have announced the five entities to own the franchise rights for the Women’s IPL, and the fans have gone berserk. While four of the five also own a men’s IPL team, Adani Sportsline have finally acquired an IPL franchise albeit in the Women’s IPL, and will have their team with Ahmedabad as their city. The other four entities to own the franchises are Indiawin Sports Private Limited (Reliance/ MI group, Mumbai), Royal Challengers Sports Private Limited (Bangalore), JSW GMR Cricket Private Limited (Delhi), and Capri Global Holdings Private Limited (Lucknow). The confirmed bid valuation for all five entities combined was ₹ 4669.99 crore. Here are some of the top reactions –

Breaking barriers, making history, and playing bold!

Royal Challengers Bangalore are the proud owners of the Bengaluru Women's Premier League Team 🙌#PlayBold #ItsHerGameToo #WomensIPL pic.twitter.com/swO4EvhZQc

— Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@RCBTweets) January 25, 2023

𝐁𝐂𝐂𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞.

The combined bid valuation is INR 4669.99 Cr

A look at the Five franchises with ownership rights for #WPL pic.twitter.com/ryF7W1BvHH

— BCCI (@BCCI) January 25, 2023
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Thank you and congratulations to Adani Sportsline, Indiawin Sports, Royal Challengers Sports, JSW GMR Cricket and Capri Global Holdings for ushering a global new era of women's cricket. #WomensIPL@BCCI @BCCIWomen @JayShah

— parthiv patel (@parthiv9) January 25, 2023
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It's official!!

BCCI has named the tournament - Women's Premier League (WPL) 💙😍#CricketTwitter #WIPL #WomensIPL

— Female Cricket (@imfemalecricket) January 25, 2023

way for a transformative journey ahead not only for our women cricketers but for the entire sports fraternity. The #WPL would bring necessary reforms in women's cricket and would ensure an all-encompassing ecosystem that benefits each and every stakeholder.

— Jay Shah (@JayShah) January 25, 2023

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Historic day in Indian cricket as bidding for#WomensIPL broke records in terms of bidding comparing the inaugural men's IPL 2008 . Congratulations to all five franchises 👏 @DelhiCapitals @mipaltan @RCBTweets @AdaniOnline @BCCIWomen #WIPL #CricketTwitter

— Nooshin AL Khadeer (@NooshinKhadeer) January 25, 2023
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Historic day for Women's Cricket . Congratulations to the bid winners #WPL broke the record of inaugural Men's IPL 2008. Special thanks @JayShah this transformative journey is special .@mipaltan @RCBTweets @DelhiCapitals @AdaniOnline @BCCIWomen #WomensIPL #BCCI

— Reemma malhotrra (@ReemaMalhotra8) January 25, 2023

Would have liked to have it named Women's Indian Premier League (WIPL) like the ones for all ICC tourneys, BBL & Hundred as well. Our women cricketers represent India only, no point omitting the 'Indian' from the brand name.

— Biswajit_here (@jit_unplugged) January 25, 2023
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Adani and Ambani have a team in the women's IPL.

Ahmedabad Vs Mumbai.

— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) January 25, 2023

Scenes if Women's RCB team wins IPL in first season itself.😆😆😆😆#WomensIPL

— Muhbola Boyfriend 🦹 (@funnyDrugDler) January 25, 2023
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Adani Group and other team owners won't pay ₹1289 cr. in one go. This amount will be paid in 10 equal installments over 10 years making it a sweet deal for all the buyers. #WomensIPL #WIPLAuction #wpl #CricketTwitter

— First Umpire (@umpirefirst) January 25, 2023

RCB's only hope to win an IPL trophy is through the women

— Radha (@radhalathgupta) January 25, 2023
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BCCI president Jay Shah and Roger Binny congratulate WPL franchise bid winners.#WIPL #BCCI #JayShah #RogerBinny #WomensIPL #WIPL2023 pic.twitter.com/wHxBChmSpC

— CricTelegraph (@CricTelegraph) January 25, 2023

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