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The 2025 Girls’s Premier League (WPL) participant public sale will likely be held in Bengaluru on December 15, with the third version of the five-team event prone to start from the primary week of February 2025. IANS understands that the names of Bengaluru and Goa had been being unofficially mentioned as hosts of the WPL 2025 public sale. However sources have now confirmed that the public sale will happen in Bengaluru, the house metropolis of the defending champions, Smriti Mandhana-led Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB).
In keeping with the event tips, the participant public sale registration deadline for Indian gamers is December 4, 5 pm IST. The 5 franchises every have a price range of INR 15 crore to construct their squads for the 2025 season, a rise from INR 13.5 crore within the earlier public sale. A complete of 19 slots will likely be crammed on the public sale, 5 of that are for roping in abroad gamers. The bottom value for capped gamers coming into the public sale is INR 30 lakh, INR 40 lakh and INR 50 lakh respectively. For the uncapped gamers, it’s INR 10 lakh and INR 20 lakh respectively.
Gujarat Giants, who completed on the backside of the factors desk within the first two seasons, have the most important public sale purse with INR 4.4 crore. RCB will go into the public sale with a handbag of INR 3.25 crore, whereas UP Warriorz enter with INR 3.9 crore of their kitty. Two-time runner-up Delhi Capitals may have a handbag of INR 2.5 crore, whereas 2023 winners Mumbai Indians go in with INR 2.65 crore of their kitty.
Concerning the 2025 event schedule, sources additional stated the anticipation as of now could be for the 2025 season to begin within the first week of February and end by March, with no phrase but on whether or not the caravan mannequin for the venues will likely be adopted for the third season.
The inaugural WPL season came about in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, with the second season held in Bengaluru and New Delhi. After 2025, the WPL will shift to being performed within the January-February 2026 window, as per the brand new ICC Girls’s Future Excursions Programme 2025-29.
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