sky Picks Up Inaugural Womens Premier League
Sky Sports has agreed a deal to show the inaugural Women’s Premier League, the women’s version of the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket competition.
Coverage will be provided on Sky Sports Cricket, starting with the opening fixture, Gujurat Giants v Mumbai Indians on 4th March.
The inaugural league will run across 22 days in March and feature five city-based teams – Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi and Lucknow – in a franchise T20 competition.
Every team plays the other four twice in a round-robin group stage, with the top three progressing to the play-off stage. The league winners automatically reach the final, with the second and third-place teams competing in an eliminator to decide who else feature in the season-ender on 26th March.
The new deal further strengthens Sky’s live cricket rights roster for 2023, which also includes five men’s Ashes tests and the multi-format women’s Ashes including a five-day test match, England’s men hosting South Africa, Ireland and New Zealand, England Women facing Sri Lanka, The Hundred and The Blast.
