After IPL, Tata bags title rights for WPL
The Hindu
Tata Group, which is the title sponsor for the Indian Premier League, has also secured title rights for the Women’s Premier League for five years
Tata Group on Tuesday bagged the title rights for the inaugural Women's Premier League beginning in Mumbai on March 4.
"I am delighted to announce the #TataGroup as the title sponsor of the inaugural #WPL. With their support, we're confident that we can take women's cricket to the next level," BCCI secretary Jay Shah tweeted.
The financials of the deal was not revealed.
A BCCI source told PTI that Tata has secured the rights for five years. The Indian multinational conglomerate had last year replaced Vivo as the title sponsor for the Indian Premier League.
The first edition will be played in Mumbai across two venues — Brabourne Stadium and D.Y. Patil Stadium.
The sale of media rights had fetched the BCCI ₹951 crore and the five teams were sold for ₹4,700 crore.
At ₹3.40 crore, Indian opener Smriti Mandhana was the most expensive buy at the auction held earlier this month.
He has worn India’s blues, albeit in an Under-19 World Cup, with K.L. Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Harshal Patel and Jaydev Unadkat as his teammates. He has proudly adorned the Lion’s Crest — the famed Mumbai cricket logo — in all three formats. He has played with Yuvraj Singh, against Virat Kohli and Rahul Dravid and has the likes of Rahul and Joe Root in his illustrious list of dismissals. He is also a software developer for an IT giant, based in California. Virtually every middle-class Indian over the last three decades at some stage dreams of being either a cricketer or an IT professional. Saurabh Netravalkar has been combining two dreams, even after relocating to USA to pursue academics at the prestigious Cornell University in 2015.