Players from around the world fetched big bucks at the inaugural Women’s Premier League auction on Monday in Mumbai. All five franchises brainstormed to pick the right set of players in their squad for the inaugural season starting next month.
The auction ceremony began on the best possible note as Star India Batsman Smriti Mandhana was the first player to bid as she turned out to be the costliest player in the inaugural auction as Royal Challengers Bangalore signed her for Rs 3.4 crore after a bidding war against Mumbai Indians.
Mumbai were then battling it out for the services of skipper Harmanpreet Kaur with RCB, Delhi Capitals (DC) and UP Warriors signing her for Rs 1.8 crore.
While Australia’s Ashleigh Gardner and England’s Natalie Sciver were the most expensive overseas players in the auction. Gujarat Giants signed Gardner for INR 3.2 crore, while Sciver joined Mumbai Indians for the same amount.
full squad
Capitals of Delhi: Jemimah Rodrigues (2.2 crore), Meg Lanning (1.1 crore), Shafali Verma (2 crore), Radha Yadav (40 lakh), Shikha Pandey (60 lakh), Marizanne Kapp (1.5 crore), Titas Sadhu (25 lakh), Alice Capsey (75 lakh), Tara Norris (10 lakh), Laura Harris (45 lakh), Jasia Akhter (20 lakh), Minnu Mani (30 lakh), Taniyaa Bhatia (30 lakh), Poonam Yadav (30 lakh), Jess Jonassen (50 lakhs), Sneha Deepti (30 lakhs), Arundhati Reddy (30 lakhs), Aparna Mondal (10 lakhs),
Mumbai Indians: Harmanpreet Kaur (1.8 crore), Nat Sciver (3.2 crore), Amelia Kerr (1 crore), Pooja Vastrakar (1.9 crore), Yastika Bhatia (1.5 crore), Heather Graham (30 lakh), Isabelle Wong (30 lakh), Amarjot Kaur (50 lakh), Dhara Gujjar (10 lakh), Saika Ishaque (10 lakh), Hayley Matthews (40 lakh), Chloe Tryon (30 lakh), Humaira Kaazi (10 lakh), Priyanka Bala (20 lakh), Sonam Yadav (10 lakh), Jitnmani Kalita (10 lakh), Neelam Bisht (10 lakh)
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Smriti Mandhana (3.4 crore), Sophie Devine (50 lakh), Ellyse Perry (1.7 crore), Renuka Singh Thakur (1.5 crore), Richa Ghosh (1.9 crore), Erin Burns (30 lakh), Disha Kasat (10 lakh), Indrani Roy (10 lakh), Shreyanka Patil (10 lakh), Kanika Ahuja (35 lakh), Asha Shobana (10 lakh), Heather Knight (40 lakh), Dane van Niekerk (30 lakh), Preeti Bose (30 lakh), Poonam Khemnar (10 lakh), Komal Zanzad (25 lakh), Megan Schutt (40 lakh), Sahana Pawar (10 lakh)
UP Warriors: Ecclestone (1.8 crore), Deepti Sophie Sharma (2.6 crore), Tahlia McGrath (1.4 crore), Shabnim Ismail (1 crore), Alyssa Healy (70 lakh), Anjali Sarvani (55 lakh), Rajeshwari Gayakwad (40 lakh), Parshavi Chopra (10 lakh), Shweta Sehrwat (40 lakh), S Yashasri (10 lakh), Kiran Navgire (30 lakh), Grace Harris (75 lakh), Devika Vaidya (1.4 crore), Lauren Bell (30 lakh), Laxmi Yadav (10 lakhs), Simran Shaikh (10 lakhs)
Gujarat Giants: Ashleigh Gardner (3.2 crore), Beth Mooney (2 crore), Sophie Dunkley (60 lakh), Anna Sutherland (70 lakh), Harleen Deol (40 lakh), Deandra Dottin (60 lakh), Sneh Rana (75 lakh), Sabbineni Meghana (30 lakh), Georgia Wareham (75 lakh), Mansi Joshi (30 lakh), Dayalan Hemalatha (30 lakh), Monica Patel (30 lakh), Tanuja Kanwer (50 lakh), Sushma Verma (60 lakh), Hurley Gala (10 lakhs), Parunika Sisodia (10 lakhs), Ashwani Kumari (35 lakhs), Shabman Shakil (10 lakhs)
* All prices in INR
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