Kolkata : Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) CEO Venky Mysore has opened up on the team’s participation in Women’s Premier League (WPL), at Knight Golf event.
WPL was started in 2023 comprising five teams. They’re – Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Delhi Capitals, UP Warriorz, Gujarat Giants. Among them the former three franchises have teams both in IPL and WPL. However, KKR, the three times IPL champion are yet to find a place in the Women’s competition.
However, KKR CEO Venky Mysore has opened up on the topic in Knight Golf Event.
He stated that KKR management did bid for their participation in WPL, however, they came at number seven whereas in the sequence, there were only five teams. Despite talks of expansion of teams, nothing such happened till now. However, Mysore assured that they’re fully committed to inclusion of KKR in the WPL, if they have expansion in future.
“I mean to be honest we bid for WPL… unfortunately there were only five teams and we came in at number seven… the valuations were at different levels… but there’ll be I think they’ve talked about an expansion at some point… so we’re very committed to that”.
Currently KKR are at number 6 at IPL 2026 points table, with 6 wins in 13 matches. Remaining winless in first 6 matches, they suddenly came back strong with 6 wins in 7 matches, eyeing for playoffs.
