Top Cricket Stars Enter Highest Price Slab For Women's Premier League 2027 Auction

Sophia Dunkley and Sophie Molineux lead the top price bracket at fifty lakh rupees for the upcoming Women's Premier League player auction. Four other players including Kiran Navgire and Jess Jonassen sit in the next bracket at forty lakh rupees.

Auction Details

The player auction takes place in Kochi on October twenty-eighth with one hundred forty-six players fighting for twenty-seven open spots. Teams can fill twenty spots with Indian players and seven with overseas talent. Thirty players chose a base price of thirty lakh rupees while four players picked twenty lakh rupees and one hundred six players chose ten lakh rupees. The total pool features one hundred nineteen Indian players and twenty-seven overseas players.

Team Actions

Defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru released four players including Grace Harris. Gujarat Giants kept fifteen players and let go of four including Danni Wyatt-Hodge. Mumbai Indians kept eleven players and let go of six. Delhi Capitals kept thirteen players and let go of six including Sneh Rana. UP Warriorz released nine players including Deandra Dottin and traded Tara Norris to Mumbai Indians for ten lakh rupees. UP Warriorz now hold the biggest purse at three point seventy-five crore rupees and eight open spots.

Context

Player auctions form a core part of franchise cricket leagues where teams manage fixed salary purses to rebuild their squads each season. Base prices set the lowest bidding amount for each cricketer when their name comes up on the auction floor.