Women's cricket

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New dawn for women's cricket with mega IPL deal (cricket.com.au)

Viacom 18 has won a closed-bid auction to secure the media rights for the women's India Premier League for the next five years.

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Viacom18 Wins Rights for Women's Indian Premier League Cricket (Variety)

Disney, which held the TV and digital rights to IPL for the past five seasons, won only the broadcast TV rights, but agreed to pay $3.01 billion for them.

BCCI honorary secretary, Jay Shah, added: “I am really thrilled that we have had such an encouraging response for a league that will revolutionize women’s cricket not just in India but across the globe. It was only apt to get our own women’s T20 league and give the fans more of women’s cricket.” Disney, which held the TV and digital rights to IPL for the past five seasons, won only the broadcast TV rights, but agreed to pay $3.01 billion for them.

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Women's Indian Premier League agrees £95m broadcast rights deal (The Guardian)

Viacom18 has spent £95.4m to secure broadcast rights for the new women's Indian Premier League for its first five years.

The broadcast deal followed news that Mithali Raj, India’s former captain and most famous women’s cricketer, was to return at the age of 40 to compete in the WIPL, having retired from international cricket last year. At least eight of the 10 men’s IPL sides intend to bid to operate a women’s team and the Glazer family, owners of Manchester United, have also expressed an interest. The Indian network Viacom18 has spent 951 crore (£95.4m) to secure broadcast rights for the new women’s Indian Premier League tournament for its first five years.

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WIPL: ₹950 crore bonanza for women's cricket (Hindustan Times)

Viacom 18 bid assures ₹7.09 crore per match and takes valuation for the WIPL, to be launched in March, past all men's T20 leagues other than IPL | Cricket.

The 22-match league is expected to kick off in the first week of March. “Words truly cannot describe what this means for a young girl in India, for women’s cricket in India, for the women’s game, for the sport in general. Recently retired Mithali Raj and Jhulan Goswami are set to return to play in the inaugural WIPL. “The media rights partners change every few years but team ownership is for eternity. “I am glad that the number we have is more than that of any other league.” The Women’s IPL (WIPL) earned a mini bonanza on Monday as it prepares for its launch in March.

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Women's IPL £95m deal 'a gamechanger for cricket' (Telegraph.co.uk)

Viacom's winning bid will pay £711000 to broadcast each match of the five-team league which starts in March 2023.

Thank you to the BCCI, Jay Shah and government authorities for the support. Pant will miss India’s forthcoming Test series against Australia, a possible World Test Championship final appearance in June, and faces a race to be fit for a home World Cup in October. Pant suffered head, neck and leg injuries that are set to rule him out of cricket for most of this year, but said his surgery had been a success.

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Ambani's Firm Wins $116 Million Media Rights to Women's IPL (Bloomberg)

Viacom18 Media Pvt., backed by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, scooped up the television and digital broadcasting rights to the new women's Indian Premier League ...

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Broadcast rights for Women's Indian Premier League sold for £95 ... (Morning Star Online)

BROADCAST rights for the forthcoming inaugural Women's Indian Premier League have been sold for £95 million. A women's counterpart to the hugely successful ...

With a regular donation to our monthly Fighting Fund, we can continue to thumb our noses at the fat cats and tell truth to power. The Morning Star is unique, as a lone socialist voice in a sea of corporate media. After the rights issue, she tweeted: “The Women’s IPL will be a game-changer for women’s cricket and cricket in general.

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PNG a rising force in women's cricket as Lewas hone skills in ... (ABC News)

They have overcome monsoon rains, a lack of facilities and an unfair share of domestic chores, but PNG women are still climbing the world Twenty20 rankings.

"Our job is to be in the kitchen and do all those sort of things for the house," Arua says. "They're incredibly skilful, they've got all the tricks of the trade and they bat like they're going to bat again in five minutes sometimes, which is a bit of a worry. "You can see most of us are really tiny — we are not that huge a side — we just have the strength and courage to do what we think we can." The team aims to qualify for the Twenty20 World Cup and also get a player into Australia's Women's Big Bash League. "We've just got the one turf wicket in the whole country and a couple of turf nets," Hemptenstall says. "It's just the mindset we have," she says.

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