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  • Women’s IPL gets Closer to Official Inauguration; 8 IPL Franchises in Race


    Eight IPL franchises are confirmed to be in the race for WIPL teams as BCCI is set to announce bidding winners on January 25.

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    BCCI is set to expand the highest revenue-generating source of income for them further as they are looking forward to introducing Women’s IPL. Rumored for a long time, the Women’s IPL will be part of IPL in 2023 for the first time.

    It’s confirmed that at least eight existing IPL men’s franchises will bid to own teams in the WIPL.

    The auction for the winning bidders will be telecasted live on January 25 when it opens sealed bids.

    Further, into the WIPL development, BCCI has shortlisted venues, and among the included are Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Eden Gardens in Kolkatta, Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, Bengaluru’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala, Indore’s Holkar Stadium, Lucknow’s Ekana Stadium Guwahati’s Barsapara Stadium and how can we forgot the hotspot Mumbai venue though the decision will be taken whether to choose Wankhede or DY Patil or Brabourne stadiums based on availability and other factors.

    BCCI has set no base price and bidders have been asked to quote the price for 10 seasons. The criteria are simple, “Stadium with the highest bid amount will be awarded first”.

    Further commenting on the format, the inaugural season will comprise 22 matches with each team playing others twice. Interestingly there will be no semi-finals as the table topper will directly get entry into finals and those who are in second and third spots will compete in an eliminator to determine the second finalist. This format will continue for another two years and from 2026 WIPL will include 33-34 matches.

    Women’s IPL has received a lot of appreciation from players and panels around the world. Indian players like Harmanpreet Kaur, Jemimah Rodrigues, and Smriti Mandhana have welcomed the WIPL announcement while Mithali Raj and Jhulan Goswami who bid adieu to international cricket in recent years are hoping that someone picks them.

    This post was last modified on January 14, 2023 12:34 PM


  • The Unnoticed Similarities between World Cup 2019, 2015 and 2011 – NowIamUpdated

    Wondering What’s the similarity between the last three Cricket World Cup? It’s the host that has won the cup in the end.

    Cricket World Cup 2019 England and Wales was in news for wrong reasons since start of the league matches. First of all due to several abandoned matches that it got the title of World Cup with most abandoned games. Secondly for the reserve days in league matches and finally the way World Cup champion was chosen in a tie game. Umpiring was at its worst level this year and it continues to do so. But did anyone notice the similarities between this world cup and last edition of it?

    Several people have shared the Pakistan similarities this world cup with the World Cup 1992 in which Pakistan was the champion. But what’s the similarities between this world cup and previous two editions of it?

    This year, it was England who became the champion and in 2015 Australia won it. India won their second World Cup title by knocking out Sri Lanka in the Cricket World Cup 2011 final. Any there any similarities? Yes, there is one – Last three world cup has been won by team hosting the cup. In 2011, India, Sri Lanka and (for the first time) Bangladesh hosted cup – India won, in 2015 Australia and New Zealand hosted the cup – Australia won and this year it was played in England and Wales and England won it.

    Last three Cricket world cups have been won by country where it’s played.

    Further in the 2015 and 2011 World Cup, side hosting the cup qualified for the finals. It was India vs Sri Lanka in 2011 and in 2015 it was Australia vs New Zealand. This year, England was the only team from European continent so there was no chance for any European team making it to finals.

  • US To Suggest Hike In H-1B Application Fee – NowIamUpdated

    H 4 visas are immediately given to H 1B visa holders, including every family member less than 21 years of age. Well, this has profited over 1 Lakh Indian immigrants since 2015.

    The department of homeland security proposal to ban the practice work permits to H 4 visa holders moved by the Trump administration to the next step.

    If this 4-year-old law is rejected then the 1 Lakh and more Indian immigrants who are working in the US would be staring at job loss in the coming future. Even if this proposal goes through, it would take a while for it to come under the effect.

    To wrangle this program in February in the previous year moved from the Trump presidency. Not only H 4 visa holders are worried, but H-1B is also running scared.

    The American tech firms have continued to depend on borrowed workers to hire profoundly skilled employees from India and China, but now the non-immigrant work visa will only allow US companies to employ natives in a specialty occupation.

    As a result, US companies discovering immigrants with a US master’s or higher degree will have a magnificent opportunity of selection in the H-1B lottery.

    Furthermore, a deficiency of talent for US tech firms, with the families, revert to India will result in the byproduct of the scrapping of the H 4 visa program.

    Whereas the utmost firms in the US have extended its local hiring in the US. But it has become difficult to find people with low unemployment rates tied with a shortage in a number of people with the kind of skills required.