WPL 2025: BCCI to host tournament in Mumbai, Lucknow, Bengaluru and Vadodara
The HinduIn a move to spread the game across the country, the Board of Control for Cricket in India has decided to host the Women’s Premier League across four venues - Mumbai, Lucknow, Bengaluru and Vadodara - from the first week of February. Earlier, the Board had shortlisted only Lucknow and Vadodara as the venues, but in a Governing Council meeting on Sunday, it was deliberated that the tournament should be played across multiple venues and keeping the strong fanbase in mind, Mumbai and Bengaluru was also included in the plans. The Kotambi Stadium, which is 20 kilometres away from Vadodara city, recently hosted its maiden international fixture with India women’s team featuring in a three-match ODI series against the West Indies. Interestingly, Mumbai has always been a perfect venue for India’s women’s team as most of its fixtures have had capacity crowd, across Brabourne Stadium, Wankhede Stadium and DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai.