WPL 2024 Auction: Updated squads and remaining purse of all five franchises

The player auction for the second edition of the Women’s Premier League did witness a number of interesting decisions from the five franchises.

The bids did not cross the three-crore mark this year the way it did ahead of the inaugural edition for the trio of Smriti Mandhana (Rs 3.4 crore), Ashleigh Gardner (Rs 3.2 crore) and Nat Sciver-Brunt (Rs 3.2 crore).

What did stand out this year, however, was the manner in which franchises engaged in a bidding war over a couple of uncapped players — Chandigarh’s Kashvee Gautam and Karnataka’s Vrinda Dinesh.

While Gautam was the joint-highest buy of the day alongside Australia all-rounder Annabel Sutherland, with Gujarat Giants paying a handsome Rs 2 crore for the seam-bowling all-rounder. Dinesh, meanwhile, was snapped up by the Alyssa Healy-led UP Warriorz for Rs 1.3 crore.

In the end, all 30 vacant slots across the five franchises were filled during the auction, with a total of five players fetching final bids worth more than a crore. And because there weren’t too many vacancies on offer, leading names such Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu, West Indies’ Deandra Dottin and the Australian trio of Kim Garth, Amanda Jade-Wellington and Alana King failed to get any bids.

Here’s a detailed look at the updated squads of the five franchises along with their remaining purse:

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Delhi Capitals

Retained players: Alice Capsey, Arundhati Reddy, Jemimah Rodrigues, Jess Jonassen, Laura Harris, Marizanne Kapp, Meg Lanning, Minnu Mani, Poonam Yadav, Radha Yadav, Shafali Verma, Shikha Pandey, Sneha Deepthi, Taniyaa Bhatia, Titas Sadhu

Auction buys: Annabel Sutherland, Aparna Mondal, Ashwani Kumari

Remaining purse: Rs 5 Lakh

Gujarat Giants

Retained players: Ashleigh Gardner, Beth Mooney, Dayalan Hemalatha, Harleen Deol, Laura Wolvaardt, Shabnam Shakil, Sneh Rana, Tanuja Kanwer

Auction buys: Phoebe Litchfield, Meghna Singh, Trisha Poojitha, Kashvee Gautam, Priya Mishra, Lauren Cheatle, Kathryn Bryce, Mannat Kashyap, Veda Krishnamurthy, Tarannum Pathan

Remaining purse: Rs 1.45 crore

Mumbai Indians

Retained players: Amanjot Kaur, Amelia Kerr, Chloe Tryon, Harmanpreet Kaur, Hayley Matthews, Humairaa Kaazi, Isabelle Wong, Jintimani Kalita, Natalie Sciver, Pooja Vastrakar, Priyanka Bala, Saika Ishaque, Yastika Bhatia

Auction buys: Shabnim Ismail, Amandeep Kaur, S Sajana, Fatima Jaffer, Keerthana Balakrishnan

Remaining purse: Rs 45 lakh

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Retained players: Asha Shobana, Disha Kasat, Ellyse Perry, Heather Knight, Indrani Roy, Kanika Ahuja, Renuka Singh, Richa Ghosh, Shreyanka Patil, Smriti Mandhana, Sophie Devine

Auction buys: Georgia Wareham, Kate Cross, Ekta Bisht, Shubha Satheesh, Sabbhineni Meghana, Simran Bahadur, Sophie Molineux

Remaining purse: Rs 1.05 crore

UP Warriorz

Retained players: Alyssa Healy, Anjali Sarvani, Deepti Sharma, Grace Harris, Kiran Navgire, Lauren Bell, Laxmi Yadav, Parshavi Chopra, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, S. Yashasri, Shweta Sehrawat, Sophie Ecclestone, Tahlia McGrath

Auction buys: Dani Wyatt, Vrinda Dinesh, Saima Thakor, Poonam Khemnar, Gouher Sultana

Remaining purse: Rs 1.90 crore