The primary-ever Ladies’s Premier League (WPL) public sale is scheduled to be held on February 13 in Mumbai. On the bidding day, a complete of 409 gamers will go beneath the hammer.
246 Indian and 163 abroad gamers (together with eight from the affiliate nations) have been divided into completely different classes, based mostly on their specialisation and age.
The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) has appointed Mallika Sagar Advani because the auctioneer. She is a Mumbai-based artwork collector guide for Fashionable and Modern Indian artwork and associate in Artwork India Consultants agency.
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Guidelines for the WPL 2023 public sale
The gamers have registered their base costs in slabs of INR 50 lakh, INR 40 lakh, INR 30 lakh, INR 20 lakh and INR 10 lakh. Bids as much as 1 crore INR could be in increments of 5 lakhs INR, from 1-2 crore INR in increments of 10 lakhs INR, and past 2 crore INR in increments of 20 lakhs INR.
The utmost squad measurement of a crew could possibly be 18, which incorporates most of six foreigners. The minimal squad measurement is restricted to fifteen.
Marquee gamers
Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma, Shafali Verma, Ellyse Perry, Sophie Ecclestone, Sophie Devine and Deandra Dottin
Purse worth
All of the 5 franchises – Mumbai Indians, Delhi Capitals, Gujarat Giants, Royal Challengers Bangalore and UP Warriorz – have been given a handbag of INR 12 crores, of which a minimal of INR 9 crores must be spent.
Time and venue for the public sale
The public sale will happen on the Jasmine Corridor, 1, Jio World Conference Centre, from 2:30 pm (IST) onwards. There will probably be a break after each hour of the bidding course of.
“Following the conclusion of every set, there could also be a brief break (on the auctioneer’s discretion) to permit franchises time to re-evaluate ways. The size of every break will probably be introduced by the Auctioneer on the conclusion of the related set.
A warning bell will ring two minutes earlier than the resumption of the Participant Public sale after every break. The Participant Public sale will re-start promptly after every break. It’s anticipated that these brief breaks will whole a minimal of 10 minutes in each hour of the Participant Public sale proceedings,” stated the BCCI, as reported by Cricbuzz.