WPL Auction 2026 player list announced; Lanning, Deepti, amongst marquee names

The Womens Premier League WPL 2026 auction player list has been unveiled with 277 players aiming to fill up 73 available slots during the auction which will take place on November 27 in New DelhiA statement from the WPL said The TATA WPL 2026 Auction list has been announced with a total of 277 players vying for 73 available slots with the auction set to take place in New Delhi on 27th NovemberThe auction list includes 194 Indian players comprising 52 capped and 142 uncapped players who will go under the hammer for 50 slots while 66 overseas capped players and 17 overseas uncapped players will look to fill the 23 available slots the statement addedThe WPL 2026 Auction scheduled to commence at 330 PM will begin with the marquee set featuring eight players Deepti Sharma India Renuka Singh India Sophie Devine New Zealand Sophie Ecclestone England Alyssa Healy Australia Amelia Kerr New Zealand Meg Lanning Australia and Laura Wolvaardt South AfricaA total of 19 players have registered in the highest baseprice bracket of Rs 50 lakh 11 players in the Rs 40 lakh bracket and 88 players in the Rs 30 lakh bracketEach franchise will be allowed to build a squad of upto 18 players A total of 73 slots have to be filled including 23 overseas slots across five franchises as per OlympicscomUP Warriorz who just retained the uncapped Indian batter Shweta Sehrawat will be entering the auction with the most amount of money in their purse four righttomatch RTM options and a massive rebuilding to doDefending champions Mumbai Indians MI captained by Harmanpreet Kaur and threetime runnersup Delhi Capitals DC have retained the maximum quota of five players and have no RTM available DC also retained Shafali Varma and Jemimah Rodrigues two young Indian batters who starred in Indias ICC Womens World Cup title win with standout performances in the knockout stagesIn these three seasons WPL has seen some players getting massive bids with Royal Challengers Bengaluru RCB captain Smriti Mandhana being the most expensive player in the tournaments history with Rs 34 crore shelled out on her ahead of the inaugural season She led RCB to the title in the 2024 season and was one of the four players including Richa Ghosh Ellyse Perry and Shreyanka Patil retained by the franchiseIn total 17 players including seven overseas players were retained across all franchises and they will have a combined purse of Rs 411 crore to spend at the auctionThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever