WPL 2023 Auction Live Streaming: The inaugural edition of the Women’s Premier League is planned to start in March this year. The tournament organizer BCCI has confirmed that the first edition will have five teams and will play a total of 22 matches.
WPL 2023 Auction Live Streaming
WPL 2023 Auction Live Streaming: The WPL 2023 Auction is scheduled to take place on February 13 while the WPL Team Auction is scheduled on January 25th.
WPL teams are likely to have a purse of 15-20 crore for their first auction event. WPL becomes the 2nd most expensive Cricket league after Men’s IPL. Viacom18 bags WPL media rights for INR 951 Crore for 2023-27.
BCCI set January 26 as the deadline for the players to register for the WPL 2023 Auction expected to be held in February. Following are the details of the WPL 2023 Auction Live Streaming:
| India | Sports18, Jio Cinema |
| United Kingdom |
Sky Sports Cricket, Sky Sports Main Event
|
| United States | Willow TV |
| Australia |
Fox Sports, Yupp TV
|
| Middle East | Willow TV |
| South Africa | SuperSport |
| Pakistan |
Geo Super (TBC)
|
| New Zealand |
Sky Sport NZ (Sky Sport 2)
|
| Caribbean |
Flow Sports (Flow Sports 2)
|
| Canada | Willow TV |
| Bangladesh | Channel 9 |
| Afghanistan |
Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA)
|
| Nepal |
Yupp TV, Net TV Nepal, SimTV Nepal
|
| Sri Lanka |
Yupp TV, SLRC, Dialog TV, PeoTV
|
| Maldives |
Yupp TV, Medianet
|
| Singapore |
StarHub TV+
|
*Details will be updated here right after the official announcement
Only Viacom18 and Disney Star bid for media rights of WPL. Where Viacom’s INR 951 crore bid defeats Star’s bid of INR 98 crore (only digital).
Viacom 18 had also secured the digital rights of the men’s IPL for the subcontinent region (for INR 23,757.5 crore or USD 3.04 billion) and both the TV and digital rights across three global regions – Australia + New Zealand, the UK and South Africa – (for INR 1058 crore or USD 135.49 million) last June.
WPL 2023 Teams
Chennai Super Kings have decided not to participate in the WPL. WPL becomes the 2nd most expensive Cricket league after Men’s IPL. Out of 10 men’s IPL teams, 8 franchise have shown their interest in owing a team in the inaugural WPL. Following are the details of the WPL 2023 Teams And Owners:
| Team Name | Owner | City | Captain | Amount |
| Gujarat Giants | Adani Group | Ahmedabad | Beth Mooney | INR 1289 Cr |
| Mumbai Indians | Reliance Industries | Mumbai | Harmanpreet Kaur | INR 912.99 Cr |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore | Diageo | Bengaluru | Smriti Mandhana | INR 901 Cr |
| Delhi Capitals | JSW–GMR | Delhi | Meg Lanning | INR 810 Cr |
| UP Warriorz | Capri Global | Lucknow | Alyssa Healy | INR 757 Cr |
Chairman of IPL Governing Council, Mr Arun Singh Dhumal said: “It gives me immense pleasure to welcome Viacom18 as our official digital and television broadcaster for WPL. Viacom18 has committed INR 951 crores, which is a per-match value of INR 7.09 crores for the next 5 years (2023-27).
The faith of all our bidders for this process also testifies that they see value in investing in this property which will only be growing with each passing year.
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Women’s cricket has shown immense growth in the past few years and our own T20 league, it only solidifies our approach towards women’s cricket and the potential it has for growth in India. I would once again like to congratulate Viacom18 and would also like to thank all our bidders for supporting and showing faith in our prospects.”
The media rights income is an integral part of the revenues both the BCCI and the franchises earn, as seen in the IPL. The BCCI has once again decided to stick to the same revenue-sharing formula it utilised in the IPL for distribution to franchises from the central revenue pool.
“The BCCI shall pay the franchisee 80% of all Central Team Licensing Income every year,” a board said in the ITT. “BCCI shall pay the franchisees 80% share of Central Rights income in first five years, 60% in next five years and 50% post that.”
