WPL 2024 Auction Live: Uncapped Kashvee Gautam, Vrinda Dinesh get massive payday

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WPL Auction 2024 LIVE

Here's what the remaining purse and available slots look like for the five franchises.

DC: Purse: Rs. 15L; Slots: 2
GG: Purse: Rs. 2.35Cr; Slots: 6
MI: Purse: Rs. 65L; Slots: 3
RCB: Purse: Rs. 2.05Cr; Slots: 4
UPW: Purse: Rs. 2.20Cr; Slots: 2 

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WPL Auction 2024 LIVE

“She’s been a wonderful fast bowler for a number of years and someone we had in mind. We feel very fortunate to have picked her up,” says Mumbai Indians coach Charlotte Edwards on the franchise picking up Shabnim Ismail.

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Here are the top five buys of the day so far:

Annabel Sutherland (to Delhi Capitals) – Rs 2 crore

Kashvee Gautam (to Gujarat Giants) – Rs 2 crore

Vrinda Dinesh (to UP Warriorz) – Rs 1.3 crore

Shabnim Ismail (to Mumbai Indians) – Rs 1.2 crore

Phoebe Litchfield (to Gujarat Giants) – Rs 1 crore

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WPL Auction 2024 LIVE

Sunanda Yetrekar goes unsold! As do Sonam Yadav and Amisha Bahukhandi. That brings us to the end of Set 10 comprising uncapped spinners!

Time now for an extended break before we head to the accelerated round. Each team will be given a blank sheet of paper on which they will have to list five individuals from the remaining pool of 95 players during the break. The IPL officials will then go through the lists during the break and draw a final list for the accelerated round.

Don’t go anywhere. Action will resume in the auction room shortly.

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WPL Auction 2024 LIVE

Finally… a paddle has been raised! Gujarat Giants open the bid for Priya Mishra. Royal Challengers Bangalore manage to raise the bid to 20L before bowing out, allowing Mishra to join the Giants.

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WPL Auction 2024 LIVE

Onto Set 10 — Uncapped spinners. First name in the list is Parunika Sisodia, and she goes unsold!

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WPL Auction 2024 LIVE

Also going unsold are Komalpreet Kour, Komal Zanzad, Haorungbam Chanu, Rekha Singh and Tara Norris.

The entire set fails to find any takers!

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Next up we have uncapped fast bowlers in Set 9! First name in the list is Aditi Chauhan, who goes unsold at Rs 20 lakh.

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Raghvi Bisht fails to find any takers at Rs 10 lakh. As do Parushi Prabhakar, Hurley Gala and Nishu Choudhary. And that brings us to the end of Set 8!

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WPL Auction 2024 LIVE

No takers for G Trisha. UP Warriorz bag Saima Thakur for Rs 10 lakh though.

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WPL Auction 2024 LIVE

No takers for Gautami Naik though. Amandeep Kaur, meanwhile, goes to Mumbai Indians for 10 lakh!

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S Sajana goes to Mumbai Indians for Rs 15 lakh!

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Poonam Khamnar goes to UP Warriorz at her base price of Rs 10 lakh!

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Poonam Khamnar goes to UP Warriorz at her base price of Rs 10 lakh!

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Set 8 now, and the first player from the list of uncapped all-rounders is Kashvee Gautam at a base price of Rs 10 lakh. Soon enough, we have a bidding war between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Giants.

Gautam soon becomes the second uncapped player to go past the crore mark after Vrinda Dinesh! And the intense bidding war between the Giants and the Warriors pushes her price tag to 2 crore!

UPW back out in the end, and the Chandigarh native eventually goes to Gujarat Giants for Rs 2 crore!

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WPL Auction 2024 LIVE

Purse remaining:

Gujarat Giants - Rs 4.55 crore
UP Warriorz — Rs 2.4 crore
Royal Challengers Bangalore — Rs 2.05 crore
Delhi Capitals — Rs 15 lakh
Mumbai Indians - Rs 90 lakh

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WPL Auction 2024 LIVE

The highlight of the second phase of the auction without a doubt has to be Karnataka’s Vrinda Dinesh going to UP Warriorz for Rs 1.3 crore from her base price of Rs 10 lakh!

The 22-year-old had finished the leading run-scorer for Karnataka in the 2021-22 Senior One-Day Trophy and the fifth highest overall, and will now hope to set the stage on fire in franchise-based T20 cricket.

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WPL Auction 2024 LIVE

Theertha Satish (10L), Shivali Shinde (20L) and Uma Chetry (10L) too go unsold and that brings us to the end of the Set 7!

With that, we head into a short break in the auction.

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WPL Auction 2024 LIVE

Aparna Mondal is next on the list and she goes to Delhi Capitals at her base price of Rs 10 lakh!

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WPL Auction 2024 LIVE

Onto Set 7 — uncapped wicketkeepers! The first name in the list is Scotland’s Sarah Bryce, who goes unsold at her base price of Rs 10 lakh.

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No takers for Jasia Akhtar, Arushi Goel, Ridhima Aggarwal, Simran Sheikh and G Divya. That brings us to the end of the uncapped batters set!

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WPL Auction 2024 LIVE

Trisha Poojitha becomes Gujarat Giants’ latest acquisition, going to the franchise at her base price of Rs 10 lakh.

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Vrinda Dinesh (10L) receives an opening bid from Gujarat Giants, with Royal Challengers Bangalore soon entering a bidding war. The price goes past the 50L mark in no time!

Soon UP Warriorz join the race while RCB opt out as the price for the uncapped player goes past the crore mark! And it is UPW who finally secure her for Rs 1.3 crore! Just like that, she becomes the second-most expensive player of the day so far.

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WPL Auction 2024 LIVE

Onto Set 6 — uncapped batters!

First from the list is Drishya IV at a base price of Rs 10 lakh. Unsold!

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Australia leg-spinner Alana King goes unsold! That’s another surprise, right up there with Chamari Athapaththu finding no takers.

No takers for India’s Gouher Sultana and Sri Lanka’s Inoka Ranaweera either. That brings us to the end of Set 5!

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India left-arm spinner Ekta Bisht, at a base price of Rs 30 lakh, gets an opening bid from Royal Challengers Bangalore. Gujarat Giants join the bidding and manage to raise the price to Rs 60 lakh before bowing out, resulting in Bisht joining Smriti Mandhana at the Royal Challengers.

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We move on to Set 5 — Capped spinners. IPL Chairman Arun Dhumal walks up to the stage to collect the first bail, as he did for the previous set as well.

Australia’s Amanda Jade-Wellington is the first player in the set, and she goes unsold! As does India’s Preeti Bose.

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England’s Kate Cross goes to the Royal Challengers Bangalore at her base price of Rs 30 lakh! With that, we come to the end of the capped pacers set!

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WPL Auction 2024 LIVE

No takers for West Indies’ Shamilia Connell at a base price of Rs 30 lakh.

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South Africa’s Shabnim Ismail is next on the pacers list at a base price of Rs 40 lakh and she instantly receives an opening bid from Mumbai Indians.

MI get into a bidding war with Royal Challengers Bangalore and the price soon goes up to Rs 1 crore! RCB eventually bow out and Mumbai Indians secure the South African for Rs 1.2 crore!

Mumbai Indians have Rs 90 lakh left in their purse, and by snapping up Shabnim Ismail, they’ve filled up the overseas slots in their squad!

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Australia’s Kim Garth is next on the list at Rs 50 lakh, and she too goes unsold! As is India’s Simran Bahadur (Rs 30 lakh).

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We are back after the break and move on to Set 4 — Fast Bowlers. First name in the list is New Zealand’s Lea Tahuhu, who goes unsold for Rs 30 lakh.

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Two teams have filled up their overseas slots — UP Warriorz and Delhi Capitals by purchasing Danni Wyatt and Annabel Sutherland respectively.

Delhi, additionally, have just Rs 25 lakh left and can buy a maximum of two uncapped Indians worth Rs 10 lakh from here.

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Mithali Raj, Gujarat Giants Mentor: The way we look at the composition of the XI for the coming season, keeping that in mind we’ve narrowed down a few players. Litch was the first of course and we got her on the first attempt. We’re saving our purse. We do have options for players. We’ll go for the quality ones.

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Only six players have been sold so far. Here’s the full list:

Phoebe Litchfield: GG, Rs 1 crore

Danni Wyatt: UPW, Rs 30 lakh

Georgia Wareham: RCB, Rs 40 lakh

Annabel Sutherland: DC, Rs 2 crore

Meghana Singh: GG, Rs 30 lakh

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England opener Tammy Beaumont and India’s Nuzhat Parween are the last players in the set and both are unsold! The entire wicketkeeper’s set goes unsold!

Time for a short break three sets into the WPL 2024 Auction.

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WPL Auction 2024 LIVE

Another surprise! No takers for England’s Amy Jones! Not one wicketkeeper has attracted a successful bid so far today.

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WPL Auction 2024 LIVE

No takers for senior India wicketkeeper-batter Sushma Verma, who has made 43 ODI and 19 T20I appearances for the Women in Blue! That is a surprise.

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WPL Auction 2024 LIVE

England’s Bess Heath is the first player from the wicketkeeper’s set, and she goes unsold at her base price of Rs 30 lakh.

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Senior Sri Lanka all-rounder Chamari Athapaththu goes unsold! That’s a surprise, given the kind of form she has been of late in the Big Bash and in international cricket.

With that, we come to the end of the second set. Onto Set 3 — wicketkeepers.

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No takers for South Africa’s Nadine de Klerk either!

India’s Meghana Singh does get an opening bid from Gujarat Giants, and she eventually joins the franchise at her base price of Rs 30 lakh

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India opener S Meghana is next on the list and she goes unsold! No takers for West Indian great Deandra Dottin either, going unsold at her base price of Rs 50 lakh!

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Australia’s Annabel Sutherland is next on the list, and we have a bit of a bidding war now — the first since fellow Aussie Phoebe Litchfield. Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals engage in a bidding war and soon the price goes past Rs 1 crore!

She eventually goes to the Delhi Capitals for Rs 2 crore! We have our highest bid of the day now.

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Devika Vaidya is next from the list and she goes unsold at her base price of Rs 30 lakh

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Georgia Wareham is the first player from the second set, and we finally have a successful bid after a series of passes, with Royal Challengers Bangalore snapping up her up for Rs 40 lakh.

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Priya Punia is the final player in Set 1, and she too goes unsold! We move to Set 2 then, which is capped all-rounders!

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Punam Raut, Naomi Stalenberg and Maia Bouchier too remain unsold! Just the two players who have fetched successful bids so far.

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No takers for India’s Mona Meshram and Veda Krishnamurthy either, both of them having a base price of Rs 30 lakh.

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England’s Danni Wyatt is next on the list and she goes to UP Warriorz for her base price of Rs 30 lakh.

India’s Bharti Fulmali is the first player of the day to go unsold at her base price of Rs 30 lakh.

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Australia’s Phoebe Litchfield is the first player of the day to go under the hammer! Gujarat Giants are the first to raise their paddle. A bidding war ensues, and Litchfield eventually goes to the Giants for Rs 1 crore!