Former India opener Aakash Chopra has named the Mumbai Indians (MI) as the likely winners of WPL 2025. He also expects the Mumbai-based franchise to bounce back strongly this season after an indifferent run last year as well. However, the schedule for the third edition of the Women’s Premier League was announced on Thursday, January 16. While the first game will be played between the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) and the Gujarat Giants (GG) in Vadodara on February 14, Mumbai will host the final on March 15 as well.

In a show on Star Sports, Chopra said, “The #Aakashvani for this season is the Mumbai Indians. I feel Harmanpreet Kaur’s team will go all the way this time with their three all-rounders. The last season was not good but they lifted the trophy in the first season. Alternate years, first year, third year, could be Mumbai’s year one more time. You expect from this team’s quality that they are going to bounce back, and bounce back strongly,” he said.
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“They have Natalie Sciver-Brunt. She is outstanding. After that, they have New Zealand’s Amelia Kerr. She is incredible and then the West Indies’ Hayley Matthews. You will find it very difficult to find better all-rounders than them even on the world stage and this team has all three. So these three all-rounders is basically their strength, along with Harmanpreet Kaur’s captaincy,” Chopra again shared.
The Mumbai Indians also finished third in WPL 2024. Nadine de Klerk, G Kamalini, Sanskriti Gupta and Akshita Maheshwari were the four players they have acquired at the WPL 2025 auction as well.
On the same show, Veda Krishnamurthy picked the Delhi Capitals (DC) as the likely winner of WPL 2025 as well.
“Looking at the squads, I really like Mumbai, Bengaluru and Delhi, but looks like there are injury concerns for RCB. So they need to figure that out. I kind of feel this year might be Delhi’s year, with the way their Indian players are performing, especially coming off a good domestic and international performance. It’s extremely difficult to win the title in two consecutive years. However, early predictions will have to be made. I feel RCB will perform well this year and they might once again win the tournament this year,” she concluded.