WPL 2024: Bengaluru, Delhi shortlisted as venues
The BCCI has shortlisted Bengaluru and Delhi as venues to host the 2024 Ladies’s Premier League (WPL). The BCCI has additionally tentatively pencilled in a window between February 22 and March 17 for the second season of the match.
ESPNcricinfo has discovered the primary a part of WPL 2024 will likely be performed in Bengaluru whereas Delhi will host the second leg, together with the knockouts. Splitting the five-team match, comprising 22 matches, throughout two venues will permit pitches at each venues to remain recent for the 2024 IPL which is ready to start from March 22.
The inaugural WPL was launched in 2023 and was performed solely in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. BCCI secretary Jay Shah had not too long ago stated the BCCI would wish to host the second season of the WPL additionally in a single state to offset the logistical challenges of conducting the match throughout venues inside a small window.
Nonetheless, the BCCI determined that two venues was the higher possibility. However with only one large venue in Bengaluru (M Chinnaswamy Stadium) and Delhi (Arun Jaitley Stadium), there will likely be matches over 10 consecutive days at every floor. To this point neither the IPL nor the WPL has had consecutive matches on the similar venue for greater than two days.
Mumbai Indians are the defending champions, having crushed Delhi Capitals within the last of the inaugural season final yr.
