Alison Mitchell explains how innovative plans for a new Women’s IPL competition would need to be properly thought out

In the hat? Is it feasibile for the world’s top players, left, to enter an IPL auction much like the elite in the men’s game, right?

There have been whispers of a Women’s Indian Premier League for a good few years, yet suddenly it feels as if the prospect could become a reality. The emphasis, however, should still remain on the word ‘could’.
The idea that a women’s IPL is in the offing is built on a quote from the Chairman of t...