WPL 2024 Auction Highlights: Gujarat Giants buy uncapped Kashvee Gautam for Rs 2 crore, Annabel Sutherland bought by Delhi Capitals for Rs 2 Cr

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WPL 2024 Squads

Delhi Capitals: Total Players - 18, overseas - 6; unused funds - Rs 5 lah

Gujarat Giants: Total Players - 18, overseas - 6; unused funds - Rs 1,45 crore

Mumbai Indians: Total Players - 18, overseas - 6; unused funds - Rs 45 lakh

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Total Players - 18, overseas - 6; unused funds - Rs 1.05 crore

UP Warriors: Total Players - 18, overseas - 6; unused funds - Rs 1.90 crore

UP Warriorz' president Jinisha Sharma explains the reason behind going after uncapped Vrinda Dinesh for Rs 1.30 crore. "We wanted batters in our squad... We'd seen Vrinda in some of our trials and we knew right then that we wanted her in our squad."

You saw the bidding war of Vrinda Dinesh 👌👌

It's time to hear the strategy behind the INR 1.3 Cr pick and the excitement after winning the bid war 😃👌#TATAWPLAuction | @TataCompanies | @UPWarriorz pic.twitter.com/pmMTXzkUZ5

— Women's Premier League (WPL) (@wplt20) December 9, 2023

WPL Auction 2024 Live Updates

RCB full squad for WPL 2024:

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

New Buys: Georgia Wareham (₹40 lakh), Kate Cross (₹30 lakh), Ekta Bisht (₹60 lakh), Shubha Satheesh (₹10 lakh), S Meghana (₹30 lakh), Simran Bahadur (₹30 lakh), Sophie Molineux(₹30lakh).

WPL Auction 2024 Live Updates

Tarannum Pathan has been sold to Gujarat Giants for Rs 10 lakh and she is the last player to be auctioned at the WPL 2024 Auction in Mumbai.

WPL Auction Updates

Royal Challengers Bangalore buy Sophie Molineux from Australia for Rs 30 lakh. Molineux, a left-arm orthodox bowling all-rounder, has been part of the Australian women's team since 2018. She also leads the Melbourne Renegades in the Women's BigBashLeague.

WPL Auction Live: Who is S Meghana?

Sabbineni Meghana plays for Railways and India. She plays primarily as a right-handed batter. She was part of India's victorious team in the 2016 Women's Twenty20AsiaCup.

Uncapped India cricketers Nishu Chaudhary and Uma Chetry remain unsold.

WPL Auction Live Updates

Uncapped India cricketer Gouher Sultana has been sold to UP Warriorz for her opening bid of Rs 30 lakh.

Simran Bahadur is next and she gets an opening bid from Royal Challengers Bangalore for her base price of INR 30 Lakh.

Live Updates from WPL Auction

The uncapped India cricketer S Meghana has been sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 30 lakh.

WPL Auction Live Updates

Welcome back to the second round of accelerator round. Veda Krishnamurthy is the first player to come up at the auction table and she has been bought at base price of Rs 30 lakh to Gujarat Giants. She will be reunited with her former India teammates at GG and with Mithali Raj - who is the mentor of the side.

WPL Auction Live Updates

Kate Cross reacts after she getting acquired by RCB: Absolutely delighted to have seen that I've been picked up in the auction to represent Bangalore. Looking forward to donning the red and the gold. Always been a huge fan of the IPL and obviously the WPL last year. Love what it's doing for the women's game and can't waittobeinvolved.

WPL 2024 Auction Updates

Tanisha Singh - the uncapped India cricketer - goes unsold. Three teams still have a few slots remaining the bidding process will reconvene shortly after a break. The first round of accelerator round finished in a jiffy as there were no bidding wars between franchises. Gujarat Giants were busiest of the lot in this round as they made a couple of interesting buys.

LIVE WPL Auction Updates

Shubha Satheesh - uncapped India all-rounder - has been purchased by Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 10 lakh.

Uncapped India all-rounders Devika K and Priyanka Koushal remain unsold at the WPL Auction 2024.

Iris Zwiling - the Netherlands cricketer - goes unsold.

Bhavna Goplani - uncapped India cricketer - finds no takers and remains unsold.

WPL 2024 Auction

Paige Scholfield - the English all-rounder - goes unsold.

Anushka Sharma - the Indian uncapped cricketer - too goes unsold.

Keerthana Balakrishanan - the uncapped India all-rounder - has been bought by Mumbai Indians for Rs 10 lakh.

Live Updates WPL Auction

Fatima Jaffer - the uncapped India cricketer - has been bought by Mumbai Indians for Rs 10 lakh.

Nicola Hancock, Milicent Illingworth - both base price Rs 10 lakh - have gone unsold.

WPL Auction 2024 Live Updates

Ashwani Kumari - the India uncapped all-rounder - has been bounght by Delhi Capitals for Rs 10 lakh.

Mannat Kashyap - the uncapped India all-rounder - too has been bought by Gujarat Giants for base price of Rs 10 lakh. GG are on a shopping spree in the accelerator round.

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Katherin Bryce - the Scotland all-rounder - has been purchased by Gujarat Giants for Rs 10 lakh base price.

Kirstie Gordon (Rs 30 lakh base price) fails to impress any franchise, goes unsold.

Uncapped India cricketer Dhara Gujjar (Rs 10 lakh base price) also goes unsold.

WPL Auction Live Updates

Australian bowler Lauren Cheatle has been sold to Gujarat Giants for Rs 30 lakh.

Alice Davis Richardson goes unsold

Live Updates From WPL 2024 Auction

Welcome to the accelerated auction stage! Every team has handed 5 players each and only those players will be auctioned. Nicola Carey (base price Rs 30 lakh) is the first player to come up and she goes unsold.

WPL Auction Live Updates

Royal Challengers Bangalore have a remaining purse of Rs 2.05 crore. The Bangalore-based franchise have 14 players, including 5 overseas players, and still have 4 slots remaining.

UP Warriorz have remaining fund of Rs 2.20 crore and have 17 players in the squad, including 6 overseas players. They have just one player to slot and a big purse with them, they might spoil other team's party by raising the bid and not end up buying them.

WPL 2023 Auction Live: Remaining Purse

Delhi Capitals have a remaining purse of Rs 15 lakh. They have 17 players in their squad, including 6 overseas.

Gujarat Giants still have Rs 2.05 crore in their purse but are yet to buy 4 more players. GG have 14 players, including 5 overs, in the squad so far.

Mumbai Indians have 16 players, including 6 overseas players in the squad. They look sorted and have Rs 65 lakh in the purse.