Adani Sportsline Pvt., the sports activities arm of the diversified Adani Group, has acquired a franchise within the inaugural version of Ladies’s Premier League. The Ahmedabad-based workforce will likely be known as the Gujarat Giants.
Adani Sportsline acquired the Gujarat Giants for Rs 1,289 crore on the public sale held by the Board of Cricket Management in India in Mumbai on Wednesday, it mentioned in a press release on Wednesday. Seven IPL franchises and different enterprise entities positioned bid for 5 Ladies’s premier League franchises.
Other than Adani Sportsline, Indiawin Sports activities bought the Mumbai franchise, whereas the Bengaluru one went to Royal Challengers Sports activities. The New Delhi and Lucknow franchises had been bagged by JSW GMR Cricket and Capri International Holdings, respectively.
Adani Sportsline manages a household of groups, together with the Gulf Giants within the DP World ILT20, and the Gujarat Giants within the Professional Kabaddi League.
“The Indian ladies’s cricket workforce has been doing exceptionally effectively, and a cricket league for girls is a big step in creating extra alternatives for girls by sports activities. Cricket is an inseparable a part of the nation’s cloth and Adani Sportsline was eager to start their affiliation with the game with the inaugural version of the Ladies’s Premier League,” mentioned Pranav Adani, director, Adani Enterprises Ltd.
BCCI President Roger Binny congratulated the profitable bidders and expressed confidence in WPL’s function in inclusion of extra ladies cricketers.
“The league will give gamers from India and overseas an opportunity to study and develop collectively. I might additionally prefer to congratulate the BCCI workforce for the sleek execution of the public sale course of. I’m assured that the league will assist our ladies cricketers shine on the worldwide stage,” Binny mentioned.
