Women’s Premier League, WPL, after a successful launch in 2023 has come back in 2024, WPL 2024. The tournament had a granch launch at Bengaluru with Shah Rukh Khan and several Bollywood male stars performing at the opening ceremony. The tournament is played between 5 teams consisting of upcoming, current Indian and International stars of Women’s Cricket.
International Legends like Ellyse Perry, Alyssa Healy, Meg Lanning, Marizanne Kapp are playing in the tournament along with Indian stars like Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Harmanpreet Kaur and many others. After Australia’s Women’s Big Bash League, WPL hopes to be as big as it and even bigger like IPL. Now, the tournament has entered the final stages.
RCB-W who failed to qualify previous year have qualified this time for the Playoffs. WPL have a different format to IPL. The team that ends the round robin league at the top of the table, directly qualifies to Finals. The second and third placed teams will play an eliminator. Delhi Capitals Women – DC-W, have won maximum number of games and topped the table with 12 points.
Mumbai Indians Women – MI-W, who have won the first tournament, have again entered Playoffs. With 10 points from 5 wins, they have ended on second place and Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women – RCB-W, have ended up with 8 points from 4 wins. RCB-W and MI-W are playing eliminator on 15th March and winner of this match will play against DC-W on 17th March, in the WPL Final.
In the final of WPL 2023, MI-W won against DC-W. If RCB-W lose in the eliminator, it would be a rematch between both the consistent teams. Ellyse Perry’s 6/15 and 40 has helped RCB win against MI. Mumbai Indians will try to win against RCB for sure. It would be interesting to see the playoffs with big stars of Women’s cricket taking on each other.