All it’s good to know forward of the 2025 Girls’s Premier League, which is dwell in full on Sky Sports activities throughout February and March.
What’s the Girls’s Premier League?
The ladies’s model of the juggernaut that’s the Indian Premier League.
The T20 event is now coming into its third season, with Royal Challengers Bengaluru trying to defend the title they gained in 2024 after they beat Delhi Capitals within the last.
Inaugural champions Mumbai Indians plus Gujarat Giants and UP Warriorz full the five-team competitors, which runs from February 14 to March 15.
4 venues might be used through the event – M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow, Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai and Kotambi Stadium in Vadodra.
How does the WPL work?
Sides play the others twice every in a double round-robin format with the highest three then reaching the knockout stage. The table-toppers advance on to the ultimate, with their opponents determined by a qualifier between the groups coming second and third.
Sides earn two factors for a win within the group stage and one every if there may be an abandonment.
Which English gamers are concerned?
- Alice Capsey (Delhi Capitals)
- Nat Sciver-Brunt (Mumbai Indians)
- Charlie Dean (Royal Challengers Bengaluru)
- Danni Wyatt-Hodge (Royal Challengers Bengaluru)
- Sophie Ecclestone (UP Warriorz)
- Danielle Gibson (Gujarat Giants)
Alice Capsey will play for Delhi Capitals within the WPL
Kate Cross was on account of play for RCB however was withdrawn from the competitors as she builds again to health following a again damage.
There might be three English head coaches, with former Surrey wicketkeeper Jonathan Batty helming Delhi, Ashes and World Cup-winning England captain Charlotte Edwards main Mumbai and present England coach Jon Lewis accountable for Warriorz.
Lewis will coach within the WPL as questions linger over his future with England after he presided over a 16-0 Ashes defeat in Australia, the primary time within the multi-format sequence a aspect has been whitewashed.
There may even be a Scotland worldwide concerned with wicketkeeper Sarah Bryce on Delhi’s roster.
Scotland’s Sarah Bryce will hope for WPL motion with Delhi
Who’re the opposite gamers to observe?
A lot of the Australia gamers who had been concerned within the Ashes thrashing of England will play within the WPL, together with Ashleigh Gardner, Beth Mooney (each Gujarat), Annabel Sutherland (Delhi), Ellyse Perry (RCB), Tahlia McGrath and Alana King (each UP Warriorz).
The highest Indian gamers embrace Jemimah Rodrigues and Shafali Verma for Delhi – Verma has struck 33 sixes throughout the primary two editions of the event – Smriti Mandhana for RCB, Harmanpreet Kaur for Mumbai and Deepti Sharma for Warriorz.
Add in recently-crowned ICC Girls’s Participant of the Yr Amelia Kerr – the New Zealander will play for Mumbai – plus West Indies stars Hayley Matthews (Gujarat) and Deandra Dottin (Mumbai) and South Africa skipper Laura Wolvaardt (Gujarat) amongst others and the event is stacked with stardust.
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Ellyse Perry took gorgeous figures of 6-15 as RCB thrashed Mumbai in 2024
What’s the full fixture record?
All video games at 2pm UK and Eire, all dwell on Sky Sports activities
February 14: Gujarat Giants vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru
February 15: Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Capitals
February 16: Gujarat Giants vs UP Warriorz
February 17: Delhi Capitals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru
February 18: Gujarat Giants vs Mumbai Indians
February 19: UP Warriorz vs Delhi Capitals
February 21: Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Mumbai Indians
February 22: Delhi Capitals vs UP Warriorz
February 24: Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs UP Warriorz
February 25: Delhi Capitals vs Gujarat Giants
February 26: Mumbai Indians vs UP Warriorz
February 27: Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Gujarat Giants
February 28: Delhi Capitals vs Mumbai Indians
March 1: Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Delhi Capitals
March 3: UP Warriorz vs Gujarat Giants
March 6: UP Warriorz vs Mumbai Indians
March 7: Gujarat Giants vs Delhi Capitals
March 8: UP Warriorz vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru
March 10: Mumbai Indians vs Gujarat Giants
March 11: Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru
March 13: Eliminator (TBC vs TBC)
March 15: Last (TBC vs TBC)
The WPL’s notable numbers
- Highest group rating: 223-2 (DELHI CAPITALS vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru, 2023)
- Lowest group rating: 64 all out (GUJARAT GIANTS vs Mumbai Indians, 2023)
- Finest particular person rating: 99 (Sophie Devine for RCB vs Gujarat Giants in 2023)
- Finest bowling figures in innings: 6-15 (Ellyse Perry for RCB vs Mumbai Indians, 2024)
- Most runs in a event: 347 (Ellyse Perry for RCB, 2024)
- Most wickets in a event: 16 (Sophie Ecclestone for UP Warriorz, Hayley Matthews for Mumbai Indians, each 2023)
Watch each match from the 2025 Girls’s Premier League dwell on Sky Sports activities from February 14 to March 15 or stream with NOW.
