The inaugural WPL campaign started on March 4, with considerable fanfare. The BCCI-run competition that will consist of 22 matches over a three-week period features some of the biggest names in the women’s game earning pay packets previously unseen in women’s competitions. Three players – Smriti Mandhana, Ash Gardner and Nat Sciver-Brunt – will earn fees in excess of $400,000 for their participation in the tournament.

There are five teams in the competition: Delhi Capitals, Gujarat Titans, Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore, and UP Warriorz. The sides will be captained by Meg Lanning, Beth Mooney, Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana and Alyssa Healy respectively.

WPL 2023: Here’s all you need to know about the Women’s Premier League

Like its men’s counterpart, the IPL, there is significant overseas involvement with a total of 30 players from outside India signed across the five teams. Australia, who recently won the Women’s 2023 T20 World Cup for the sixth time in eight tournaments, are the best-represented nation aside from India – they will have 12 players on show during the tournament.

WPL 2023: Where to watch Women’s Premier League live

In the United Kingdom (UK)

Sky Sports have agreed a deal that will see them broadcast the first year of the competition. The tournament will be available to watch on Sky Sports Cricket as well as their streaming platform Sky Go.

In India

All matches will be available to watch free on the Jio Cinema app and desktop site. Matches can also be watched on Sports18 on the following channels: Sports18 – 1 + Sports18 – 1 HD + Sports18 Khel

In Australia

The 2023 WPL can be viewed on Fox Sports, on Fox Cricket HD.

In the United States (US)

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In South Africa

SuperSport will be broadcasting the competition in South Africa.

WPL 2023: Full list of Women’s Premier League commentators

English: Kate Cross, Natalie Germanos, Mel Jones

Hindi: Anjum Chopra, Reema Malhotra, Samantha Lobatto, Zaheer Khan, Aakash Chopra, Parthiv Patel, Anant Tyagi and Saba Karim, Punam Raut, Pragyan Ojha

Tamil: Niranjana Nagarajan, Aarti Sankaran, Abhinav Mukund, Anirudha Srikkanth, Vidyut Sivaramkrishnan, Sudhir Srinivasan, Bagawati Prasad, R Sridhar

Kannada: Veda Krishnamurthy, Karuna Jain, Venkatesh Prasad, Sujay Shastry, Raghavendra Raj, Sumanth

Telugu: Sunitha Anand, Sravanthi Naidu, Sandeep Bavanaka, Vijay Goud, Venkatpathy Raju, Hanuma Vihari, Akshath Reddy