The 2026 season of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) is most likely to start in early January, with a decision on locations set to come quickly, sources near to the advancement stated to IANS on Monday. Lucknow, Bengaluru, Vadodara, and Mumbai hosted WPL 2025, which was won by Harmanpreet Kaur-led Mumbai Indians (MI) for the 2nd time at the Brabourne Stadium previously this year.
For WPL 2026, IANS comprehends that the start date of the competitors might be January 7, with January 6 and 8 likewise in conversation. The last might be kept in the February 1-3 window, and will be firmed up when the dates of the 2026 Men’s T20 World Cup are out.
It is comprehended that the WPL 2026 last date will be repaired 5 days before the guys’s international occasion in the quickest format starts in India and Sri Lanka. This will be the very first time WPL will be kept in the January window, according to the ICC Future Tours Programme (FTP), after being formerly kept in February and March.
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In regards to the locations, IANS comprehends that 2 choices remained in conversation when the BCCI authorities had a casual conference before the 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup last, which India won by 52 perform at the DY Patil Stadium to win their first-ever title in senior females’s cricket.
“One choice is to host the competition at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, which is now a location permanently engraved in the females’s Indian group’s memory, and the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. Another alternative is to host the very first half of the competitors in Navi Mumbai and take the 2nd leg to the Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara,” stated a WPL expert to IANS.
The reasoning behind keeping the 2nd half of WPL 2026 in Vadodara is likewise due to the arena set to host the guys’s ODI series opener in between India and New Zealand on January 11. It is likewise comprehended that a main word on dates and places might come throughout the WPL 2026 mega auction, to be kept in New Delhi on November 27.
“Chances are great for Vadodara to be the extra location for WPL 2026. Everybody is simply awaiting the verification and the schedule. We are simply keeping our fingers crossed and waiting for the main verification. Lots of people are calling, consisting of the WPL group owners,” stated a senior Baroda Cricket Association (BCA) authorities to IANS.