Here is all you need to know about Women’s Premier League 2024 including when and where the edition will be, its date, venue, purse and the retained and released players list ahead of the WPL auction
The Women’s Premier League 2024 auction is all set to begin before the year ends ahead of the tournament which is expected to be held February or March.
Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2024 auction schedule, date, venue, teams retained and released players list and purse
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The dates of the tournament and whether it will be played in many cities utilising a home-and-away format, as was the case last season, have not been formally declared by the BCCI. Five teams, namely, Mumbai Indians, Delhi Capitals, Gujarat Giants, Royal Challengers Bangalore and UP Warriorz will be fighting for the title.
Five franchises kept a total of sixty players, including twenty-one international cricketers, while 29 players were cut from their current rosters. Annabel Sutherland and Megan Schutt, two international talents, were released, but most of the big names were kept by their respective teams.
October 15, 2023, was the last day of the five franchises’ retention period for the WPL 2024. A report from ESPNCricinfo states that the funds from the releases will be combined with the leftover amount from the previous auction to create a new purse of Rs 1.5 crore.
The Mumbai Indians, who defeated the Delhi Capitals by seven wickets in the WPL final on March 26 at the Brabourne Stadium earlier this year, are the current champions. The WPL changed the entire landscape of the industry in its first year of existence by elevating women’s cricket to a whole new level. Here is all you need to know about the auction.
When is the Women’s Premier League 2024 auction?
The Women’s Premier League 2024 auction will be held on December 9.
Where is the Women’s Premier League 2024 auction?
The Women’s Premier League 2024 auction will be held in Mumbai.
Which are the players retained and released by the franchise for the Women’s Premier League 2024?
Across all the teams, sixty players were kept on. Twenty-one of these are cricket players overseas. 29 players in total were released by the franchises.
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Retained
- Asha Shobana
- Disha Kasat
- Ellyse Perry*
- Heather Knight*
- Indrani Roy
- Kanika Ahuja
- Renuka Singh
- Richa Ghosh
- Shreyanka Patil
- Smriti Mandhana
- Sophie Devine*
Released
- Dané Van Niekerk*
- Erin Burns*
- Komal Zanzad
- Megan Schutt*
- Poonam Khemnar
- Preeti Bose
- Sahana Pawar
UP Warriorz
Retained
- 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*
Released
- Devika Vaidya
- Shabnim Ismail*
- Shivali Shinde
- Simran Shaikh
Mumbai Indians
Retained
- 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
Released
- Dhara Gujjar
- Heather Graham*
- Neelam Bisht
- Sonam Yadav
Gujarat Giants
Retained
- Ashleigh Gardner*
- Beth Mooney*
- Dayalan Hemalatha
- Harleen Deol
- Laura Wolvaardt*
- Shabnam Shakil
- Sneh Rana
- Tanuja Kanwer
Released
- Annabel Sutherland*
- Ashwani Kumari
- Georgia Wareham*
- Hurley Gala
- Kim Garth*
- Mansi Joshi
- Monica Patel,
- Parunika Sisodia
- Sabbineni Meghana
- Sophia Dunkley*
- Sushma Verma
Delhu Capitals
Retained
- 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
Released
- Aparna Mondal
- Jasia Akhter
- Tara Norris*