Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma and Harmanpreet Kaur.
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Nilima Jogalekar will swap on the tv set at her house in Pune on Monday afternoon to witness a historic second in a recreation that has been her life for many years.
Like the ladies cricketers — previous and current — all around the world, she is happy concerning the Women’s Premier League (WPL) auction to be held on the Jio World Convention Centre from 2.30 p.m. The first prize Nilima, who performed 5 Tests and 20 ODIs for India, gained in cricket was a glucose biscuit, half-a-century in the past.
In these days, a girl participant couldn’t have hoped for greater than that. So Nilima, now a match referee, is delighted that even the bottom value of Smriti Mandhana, her fellow-Maharashtrian, is ₹50 lakh on the auction.
Smriti might nicely be one of many gamers that each franchise will need to join. She is one in every of 448 gamers who will go beneath the hammer.
And up for grabs are 90 slots within the 5 franchises — Adani Group (Ahmedabad); IndiaWin Sports (Mumbai Indians), Mumbai; Royal Challengers Sports Pvt. Ltd. (Bengaluru); JSW-GMR Cricket Pvt. Ltd. (Delhi Capitals), Delhi; Capri Global, Lucknow — who should buy six abroad gamers every. A workforce might subject 5 foreigners, however one in every of them must be from an affiliate nation.
The highest base value is ₹50 lakh and the bottom ₹10 lakh. The purse obtainable for a franchise is ₹12 crore. That means a franchise might not be capable of go all out in its pursuit to purchase a participant that it is extremely eager on, one thing now we have turn into used to within the males’s IPL auction.
Just because the IPL has remodeled males’s cricket in India, the WPL might revolutionise the women’s recreation within the nation. The BCCI might have taken some time to answer the clamour — even from abroad gamers — for knowledgeable women’s league, however the WPL’s valuation (₹4669.99 crore) exhibits how a lot the sport has grown in reputation.
The WPL’s timing is ideal as India triumphed within the inaugural Women’s Under-19 World Cup in South Africa lately. Some of them are certain to curiosity the franchises: batters Shweta Sehrawat, the match’s main run-getter, G. Trisha and Soumya Tiwari, and bowlers Titas Sadhu, Parshavi Chopra and Mannat Kashyap.
There are many senior Indian stars, too, who’re anticipated to set off a bidding frenzy: batters Harmanpreet Kaur, Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues and Harleen Deol, all-rounders Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar and Sneh Rana, wicketkeeper-batters Richa Ghosh and Yastika Bhatia, and bowlers Renuka Singh and Radha Yadav.
Add to that the largest names from abroad — Meg Lanning, Laura Wolvaardt, Beth Mooney, Alyssa Healy, Sophie Devine, Deandra Dottin, Suzie Bates, Marizanne Kapp, Amelia Kerr, Sophie Ecclestone, Megan Schutt and Shabnim Ismail — a Manic Monday awaits.
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Key Figures of Auction
Teams: 5
Names: DC, MI, RCB, Gujarat Giants, UP Warriorz
Minimum Salary Mandatory: ₹9 crore
Maximum Salary purse/workforce: ₹12 crore
Minimum Squad Strength Mandatory: 15
Maximum Squad Strength: 18
Maximum India gamers in squad: 12
Maximum Overseas gamers/squad: 6
Total variety of gamers obtainable: 409
Indian gamers for auction: 246
Foreign gamers from Full members: 155
Players from Associate Nations: 8
Name of auctioneer: Malika Sagar
Nb: A workforce can subject 5 overseas gamers in taking part in XI if the fifth participant is from Associate nation.
