BCCI plans women’s cricket league as IPL viewership surges

Board of Control for Cricket in India -- the sport’s governing body conducts the wildly-popular men’s edition of IPL whose broadcast rights will be fought over by media titans including The Walt Disney Co. and Amazon.com Inc. -- wants to auction broadcast rights of the women’s games and its six league teams by early next year, BCCI head Jay Shah told Bloomberg in an interview in Mumbai.

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