WPL Auction: The Womens Premier League (WPL) 2024 auction concluded in Mumbai on Saturday and squad have been finalised for five franchise, that will be competing for WPL 2024 trophy.𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝟓 𝐁𝐮𝐲𝐬!The players who got the cash registers ringing during the #TATAWPLAuction 2024 💰@TataCompanies pic.twitter.com/xdM7KOrZm1— Womens Premier League (WPL) (@wplt20) December 9, 2023At the WPL 2024 auction, 165 players went under the hammer which included 104 Indians and 61 foreign players. Although teams were allowed to select only 30 of those players. The auction was full of surprises as several experienced campaigners left untouched on the other hand, few uncapped players were picked above their base price. Who are the top unsold players of WPL auctionsSurprisingly, big names like Chamari Athapaththu, Deandra Dottin, and Kim Garth had no takers while uncapped players like Vrinda Dinesh and Kashvee Gautam made headlines by attracting bids over INR 1 crore.While Karnataka batter Vrinda Dinesh joined the UP Warriorz for a whopping INR 1.3 crore, it was all-rounder Kashvee Gautam, who was the big headline of the WPL 2024 auction, commanding a premium of INR 2.00 crore from Gujarat Giants, which made her the joint-most expensive player at the auction alongside Australian international Annabel Sutherland.A bid to remember!Gujarat Giants win the bidding war to get Kashvee Gautam for INR 2 Cr 🔥🔥#TATAWPLAuction | @TataCompanies pic.twitter.com/JUlusSI9M8— Womens Premier League (WPL) (@wplt20) December 9, 2023Kashvee Gautam has also become the most expensive uncapped player in WPL history.South African speedster Shabnim Ismail joined the current champions Mumbai Indians for INR 1.20 crore, and Aussie all-rounder Phoebe Litchfield, who fetched INR 1 crore from Gujarat was among the players who bagged a huge amount.Heres the full squad of all five franchises of WPL 2024:Delhi Capitals (DC)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, Annabel Sutherland, Aparna Mondal, Ashwani Kumari.pic.twitter.com/F5IdTZVUIz— Womens Premier League (WPL) (@wplt20) December 9, 2023Gujarat Giants (GG)Ashleigh Gardner, Beth Mooney, Dayalan Hemalatha, Harleen Deol, Laura Wolvaardt, Shabnam Shakil, Sneh Rana, Tanuja Kanwer, Phoebe Litchfield, Meghna Singh, Trisha Poojitha, Kashvee Gautam, Priya Mishra, Lauren Cheatle, Kathryn Bryce, Mannat Kashyap, Tarannum Pathan, Veda Krishnamurthy.Mumbai Indians (MI)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, Shabnim Ismail, Sajeevan Sajana, Amandeep Kaur, Fatima Jaffer, Keerthana Balakrishnan.Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)Asha Shobana, Disha Kasat, Ellyse Perry, Heather Knight, Indrani Roy, Kanika Ahuja, Renuka Singh, Richa Ghosh, Shreyanka Patil, Smriti Mandhana, Sophie Devine, Georgia Wareham, Ekta Bisht, Kate Cross, Shubha Satheesh, S Meghna, Simran Bahadur, Sophie Molineux.UP Warriorz (UPW)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, Dani Wyatt, Vrinda Dinesh, Saima Thakor, Poonam Khenmar, Gouher Sultana.
