IPL chairman Arun Dhumal confirms No “Immediate Plans” to add teams in WPL

The Women’s Premier league has expanded over the years and has achieved remarkable growth for the past three seasons. It has become one of the most elite female competitive leagues. Starting on with five franchises the league has maintained the same number of franchises till now. But growing popularity around the league has started speculations about whether the league will now add on more teams and make the league more bigger.

Clearing the air around the growing speculation, IPL chairman Arun Dhumal has confirmed that The WPL- Women Premier league will maintain its current structure and will not add more teams as of now. 

“No Immediate Plans”: Arun Dhumal

WPL Season concluded on March 15 with Mumbai Indians emerging as the winner of the season. The matches of the women Premier league were highly gripping and caught numerous eyeballs with promising match turnarounds.

But despite being successful, Dhumal, a chairman on the WPL committee, put a full stop to the speculations and concluded that the league will move with the present teams and will not add any new increasing numbers.

“To further strengthen this tournament for the time being, we want to consolidate before we take a call on further addition of any team. There are no immediate plans (to add teams),” Dhumal said as quoted by the PTI.

“So, within three editions, WPL has grown phenomenally in terms of traction, for in-stadium attendance. All the broadcast numbers are very, very encouraging. And it has given new impetus to women’s cricket worldwide. So, we are hoping this continues to grow. And this augurs very well for not only the tournament but women’s cricket in general,” Dhumal added.

📢WPL committee member and IPL Chairman Arun Dhumal has stated that the BCCI has no immediate plans to increase the number of teams in the Women’s Premier League.

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The WPL became the second-biggest women’s league in the world after its media rights were sold for a whopping sum of Rs 951 crore. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had generated a sum of Rs 4670 crore from the sale of the five franchises. As of present, WPL features five teams with three common teams from the Indian Premier League including Mumbai Indians, Delhi Capitals, Royal Challengers Bengaluru. The other teams are UP Warriorz and Gujarat Giants.