EXCLUSIVE: Sky Sports activities safe dwell TV rights for the inaugural ladies’s Indian Premier League after deciding towards bidding for the boys’s occasion, with Nat Sciver-Brunt amongst seven England stars set to function
- Sky Sports activities will present all 22 matches from the inaugural ladies’s IPL this month
- The broadcaster had handed up the prospect to purchase rights to the boys’s occasion
- England all-rounder Nat Sciver-Brunt fetched £320,000 in final month’s public sale
Sky Sports activities have purchased dwell TV rights for the inaugural ladies’s Indian Premier League in one other vital breakthrough for the game on this nation.
The five-team competitors begins this weekend with a conflict between the Gujurat Giants and Mumbai Indians, with England’s Sophia Dunkley, Nat Sciver-Brunt and Issy Wong set to function within the opening recreation.
Sky are understood to have agreed a deal to televise all 22 matches which is able to happen between 4 and 26 March, having handed up the prospect to purchase the rights for the boys’s competitors, which as Sportsmail revealed earlier this week will be shown by ITV and DAZN.
The home TV rights in India have been purchased by streaming giants Viacom18 for a outstanding determine of £95.4million, which at £711,000-per-match makes the WPL probably the most profitable competitors in ladies’s sport.
The 5 franchises have been offered for £465m, with Ahmedabad going for the very best value at £128m, and Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi and Lucknow additionally internet hosting groups.
England all-rounder Nat Sciver-Brunt was snapped up for £320,000 in final month’s public sale
Sophie Ecclestone is one in every of seven England gamers who will function within the five-team occasion
India’s Sonam Yadav will play for Mumbai Indians within the upcoming match on dwelling soil
Seven England gamers have been snapped up in last month’s auction with Sciver-Brunt fetching the very best value at £320,000, whereas England coach Jon Lewis will likely be accountable for main the UP Warriorz.
Sky have made function of championing ladies’s cricket in recent times, televising all England’s dwelling matches dwell and the Hundred.
Along with broadcasting the ladies’s T20 World Cup in South Africa final month in addition they purchased the rights for the latter levels of the underneath 19 competitors, with England shedding to India within the remaining.
