Women's Cricket
WPL Auction Highlights: Annabel Sutherland, Kashvee are most expensive players
Catch all the LIVE updates from the players' auction of the 2024 Women's Premier League.
The WPL 2024 auction will take place in Mumbai on December 9. (Photo credit: WPL/X)
The Women's Premier League players' auction for the second season held in Mumbai on Saturday.
At the WPL auction, a total of 165 players, including 104 Indians and 61 overseas, was in contention for hefty deals.
However, only 30 slots were available to fill for the five teams: Gujarat Giants, Mumbai Indians, Delhi Capitals, UP Warriorz, and Royal Challengers Bengaluru.
Annabel Sutherland and Shabnam Ismail were the two expensive foreign players while uncapped players like Kashvee Gautam and Vrinda Dinesh caught the limelight as they become the two most expensive uncapped players in the history of WPL.
Also few surprises as Chamari Athapaththu, the Sri Lanka women's team captain, was considered one of the top players in the went unsold. Kim Garth of Australia,Deandra Dottin of Westindies too faced a similar fate.
As it Happened:
Live Updates
- 9 Dec 2023 9:43 AM GMT
First up is australian batter, Phoebe Litchfield, goes to Gujarat for 1 Crore
The Australian Phoebe Litchfield become the first player in the 2024 WPL auction, and saw a bidding war between Gujarat Giants and UP Warriorz
Gujarat won the war on 1 Crore and added her to their squad.
- 9 Dec 2023 9:39 AM GMT
The first set will be for the capped batters
There are total 10 sets, and the first set is for Capped batters.
- 9 Dec 2023 9:30 AM GMT
Stage is set for the second edition of WPL auction
All the teams and coaches are there in the hall to start the proceedings.
- 9 Dec 2023 9:20 AM GMT
All of the five captains of the WPL teams are excited to see their final squad
Indian Captain Harmanpreet Kaur will lead the Mumbai Indians side whereas former Australian captain Meg Lanning will led Delhi Capitals.
Alyssa Healy, Sneh Rana and Smriti Mandhana are the other three captains of the UP, Gujarat and bangalore sides respectively.
- 9 Dec 2023 9:15 AM GMT
Here is the list of few Top overseas players going into auction
Look at few overseas stars who can go for high bids for any of the five teams including explosive openers Chamari Athapaththu of Sri Lanka and Tammy Beaumont of England.
All rounder like -Deandra Dottin of Westindies and Annabel Sutherland of Australia are top contenders whereas fast bowlers like Kim Garth of Australia and Kate Cross of England will be in demand.
- 9 Dec 2023 9:05 AM GMT
Here is the list of few Top Indian players going into auction
Look at few Indian stars who can go for high bids for any of the five teams including experienced Veda Krishnamurthy, Punam Raut and youngsters like Devika Vaidya and S Meghna.
- 9 Dec 2023 8:50 AM GMT
Here is the list of few top uncapped players going into auction
Look at few uncapped stars who can go for high bids for any of the five teams including Simran shaikh, who already has a experience of WPL.
- 9 Dec 2023 8:30 AM GMT
Mallika Sagar will be the Auctioneer for this WPL Auction
Mallika Sagar will be the auctioneer at Women's Premier League 2024 auction. She is a Mumbai-based art collector and consultant for modern and contemporary Indian art.
- 9 Dec 2023 8:08 AM GMT
Women Premier League season 2 is back, today is the player Auction
At the WPL auction, a total of 165 players, including 104 Indians and 61 overseas, will be in contention for hefty deals.
The event will start at 3:00 PM IST.
