London, June 4 -- Former Indian Premier League (IPL) Chairman Lalit Modi has made a stellar forecast for the future of women's cricket, predicting that within the next 15 years, individual franchises in the women's game will touch billion-dollar valuations.

Speaking to ANI, the 62-year-old sports administrator stated that the meteoric rise of women's cricket, fueled exponentially by the Women's Premier League (WPL), is putting the sport on track to overtake almost every major men's sporting league globally, eventually settling right behind the men's IPL.

"It is also going to go to another level. Amazingly, Indian cricket is going to get better. Women's cricket, the crowds are filling up."What the men's IPL was 20 years ago, women's cric...