Women's Premier League 2023
2023 · 5 teams · T20 cricket
Tournament Overview
Series Overview
The inaugural Women's Premier League in March 2023 was a watershed moment for women's cricket — the BCCI's entry into women's franchise cricket created, in one season, the world's most commercially powerful women's T20 league. Five franchises — all aligned with IPL ownership groups — competed across Mumbai's premier cricket venues in a competition that attracted extraordinary interest from the start. Mumbai Indians Women, backed by the most successful franchise in IPL history, lived up to that legacy immediately. Under Harmanpreet Kaur — India's T20 captain and one of women's cricket's greatest ever batters — MI Women were the class of the competition. In the final at DY Patil Stadium, they defeated Delhi Capitals Women by 7 wickets, with Harmanpreet's calm captaincy and batting presence proving decisive. The inaugural WPL achieved something remarkable: it shifted the conversation about women's cricket in India permanently. Stadiums were sold out, broadcast numbers exceeded all expectations, and young fans discovered women's cricket with genuine enthusiasm. The BCCI had, in launching the WPL, created not just a competition but a movement — one that would transform how India thought about women's sport entirely.
Key Highlights
- 1Mumbai Indians Women won the inaugural WPL — cricket's newest major women's franchise competition
- 2Harmanpreet Kaur led MI Women to the title with the dominant, calm captaincy that defines India's most decorated T20 women's captain
- 3Delhi Capitals Women reached the first final — setting up what would become an extraordinary run of consecutive final appearances
- 4The inaugural WPL attracted sell-out crowds across Mumbai, with DY Patil Stadium providing a spectacular backdrop for the final
- 5BCCI's investment in the WPL immediately created the world's richest and most competitive women's franchise tournament