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WPL 2024 Schedule Announced: Opening Match on Feb 23
The second edition of the Women’s Premier League is all set to take off this year. The full schedule of WPL 2024 is announced with the previous year’s defending champions, Mumbai Indians, who will face the finalists Delhi Capitals in the opening match that will be held at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on February 23. WPL 2024 edition will be held in Bengaluru and Delhi stadiums with the Arun Jaitley Stadium hosting both the eliminator and the final match that will be held on March 15 and 17 respectively.
This year, WPL hosts a total of 22 matches with the teams topping the charts would be given direct entry to the finals. Subsequently, the teams securing second and third place will face against each other in the Eliminator match. Previously, Mumbai Indians, led by Indian skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, had emerged victorious against Delhi Capitals by 7 wickets to be the champions of the first edition of the Women’s Premier League. The new edition of WPL will witness amazing talents from the world of cricket such as Kashvee Gautam and Vrinda Dinesh who had a big payday of a total of 165 players went under the hammer for the 30 spots during the WPL mini-auction last month.
Full Schedule of WPL 2024:
| Date | Match | Place |
| February 23 | Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Capitals | Bengaluru |
| February 24 | Royal Challengers Bangalore vs UP Warriors | Bengaluru |
| February 25 | Gujarat Giants vs Mumbai Indians | Bengaluru |
| February 26 | UP Warriors vs Delhi Capitals | Bengaluru |
| February 27 | Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Gujarat Giants | Bengaluru |
| February 28 | Mumbai Indians vs UP Warriors | Bengaluru |
| February 29 | Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals | Bengaluru |
| March 1 | UP Warriors vs Gujarat Giants | Bengaluru |
| March 2 | Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians | Bengaluru |
| March 3 | Gujarat Giants vs Delhi Capitals | Bengaluru |
| March 4 | UP Warriors vs Royal Challengers Bangalore | Bengaluru |
| March 5 | Delhi Capitals vs Mumbai Indians | Delhi |
| March 6 | Gujarat Giants vs Royal Challengers Bangalore | Delhi |
| March 7 | UP Warriors vs Mumbai Indians | Delhi |
| March 8 | Delhi Capitals vs UP Warriors | Delhi |
| March 9 | Mumbai Indians vs Gujarat Giants | Delhi |
| March 10 | Delhi Capitals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore | Delhi |
| March 11 | Gujarat Giants vs UP Warriors | Delhi |
| March 12 | Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bangalore | Delhi |
| March 13 | Delhi Capitals vs Gujarat Giants | Delhi |
| March 15 | Eliminator Match | Delhi |
| March 17 | Final Match | Delhi |
About Women’s Premier League:
The Women’s Premier League WPL is a women’s Twenty20 cricket franchise league in India. It is owned and operated by the Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI). The first major women’s Twenty20 competition in India was the Women’s T20 Challenge. This started as a single-match tournament in 2018 and was expanded to a three-team, three-match competition held in 2019, 2020, and 2022.
In February 2022, BCCI President Sourav Ganguly announced plans to establish a women’s version of the Indian Premier League (IPL), the major men’s Twenty20 franchise cricket competition in India, replacing the Women’s T20 Challenge. By the end of August month, plans were put into action and finally, in October the BCCI announced that they were considering a five-team tournament that would take place in March 2023. This league was informally known as the Women’s Indian Premier League; the BCCI later named it the Women’s Premier League.
On 28 January 2023, the BCCI invited bids for the league’s title sponsorship rights until 2027. Tata Group won the bid for an undisclosed amount. Mumbai Indians were the inaugural winners of the tournament, beating Delhi Capitals in the final.
