Xtra Time Net Desk: After bagging the IPL Media Rights, Viacom18 has additionally procured the media rights for Girls’s IPL. Viacom has dedicated Rs 951 crore to the BCCI. Which means that the broadcaster pays the BCCI per match worth of INR 7.09 crores for the subsequent 5 years (2023-27). The information comes as an enormous improvement for girls’s cricket. BCCI secretary Jay Shah later confirmed the event.
BCCI Honorary Secretary Jay Shah stated, “I’m actually thrilled that we now have had such an encouraging response for a league that may revolutionise ladies’s cricket not simply in India however throughout the globe. It is a dedication I had made to the Board and our ladies cricketers and in the present day we now have taken one large leap. The broadcasters play a key position in taking the sport to a wider viewers and their lively curiosity within the league is a transparent indication that the Girls’s Indian Premier League is headed in the appropriate course. The per-match valuation of Rs INR 7.09 crore is one thing that has by no means beforehand been registered for a ladies’s sport. I congratulate Viacom18 for securing each the TV and digital rights with a mixed bid of INR 951 crores and welcome them on Board. The journey has properly and really began and we’ll take one other main step this month when the 5 franchises are introduced.”
Sharing his views, IPL Governing Council official Arun Singh Dhumal stated, “The religion of all our bidders for this course of additionally testifies that they see worth in investing on this property which can solely be rising with every passing yr. Girls’s cricket has proven immense development up to now few years and our personal T20 league, it solely solidifies our strategy in direction of ladies’s cricket and the potential it has for development in India. I’d as soon as once more prefer to congratulate Viacom18 and would additionally prefer to thank all our bidders for supporting and exhibiting religion in our prospects.”
