WPL Auction: The auction process of players in the Women’s Premier League (WPL) will be held today i.e. on February 13 in Mumbai, which everyone is eagerly waiting for. At the same time, the first edition of WPL is to be organized from 6 March. Talking about the auction, more than 1,000 players had registered for it, out of which 409 players have been shortlisted.
In the first edition, 5 franchises have been allowed to play, in which a maximum of 18 players can be included in a team during the auction. Many legendary women players of world cricket have given their names for the Women’s Premier League, on which everyone’s eyes are going to be. At the same time, during the auction, the franchisees can also make money to include them in their team.
Apart from this, there are some such names during this auction, which may not have been heard much by the fans before, but they can also be bought very expensively. The kind of performance shown by some young players in the Under-19 Women’s T20 World Cup that ended last month, some of those players can be sold for crores in this auction process. Before the start of the auction, know which players can rain money in the auction and who can sell the most.
1 – Richa Ghosh
Indian team’s young wicketkeeper-batsman Richa Ghosh is counted among the explosive batsmen. So far in the T20 format, he has impressed everyone through his power hitting game. Richa has scored 458 runs in 30 T20 matches played so far. During this, his strike rate of 135.5 has been seen. At the same time, 16 sixes have also been seen from his bat. Richa is considered such a player who can get her team out of any difficult situation and win the match. In such a situation, the eyes of all the franchisees are definitely going to be on him. Richa has been included in the base price of Rs 50 lakh.
2 – Shefali Verma
In the last few years in the Indian women’s cricket team, the way Shefali Verma made headlines with her performance, hardly any other player was able to do it. Shefali has so far played 21 ODIs, 52 T20 matches in her international career and also played 2 Test matches. Naturally, Shefali is an aggressive opening player and if the opposition team is not able to get her wicket quickly, she takes the match out of their hands very quickly. So far, Shefali has seen a strike rate of 134.47 in T20 format.
3 – Ashley Gardner
The Australian women’s team has seen great dominance in world cricket so far and the reason for this is the presence of one to one match-winner players in their team. In this, one name is of all-rounder player Ashley Gardner, who is a middle-order batsman as well as a brilliant off-spinner bowler. Apart from playing in the Women’s Big Bash League, Ashley also has experience of playing in The Hundred. In such a situation, any franchise can make money by taking this match-winning player.
4 – Marijane Kepp
South Africa women’s team player Marijane Kapp has been a match winner player for her team in all formats with both bat and ball. Marijane Kepp has so far played 87 T20 matches in her international career, in which she has scored 1120 runs with the bat and has also taken 87 wickets with the ball. Kepp is considered very good in terms of understanding the game and also changes his game according to the situation.
5 – Kiran Navagire
Very few cricket fans would have heard the name of this player, but Kiran Navgire is considered a very aggressive player. In the Women’s Senior T20 Trophy played in the year 2021-22, Kiran’s bat saw 525 runs in 7 matches, in which her strike rate was 131.25. Navagire is known for scoring very fast runs during the initial overs, in which case she can be considered as a great opening batsman for any franchise.
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