Cricket

Rana, Poonam, Knight, Tahuhu launched forward of WPL 2025 public sale

7 November, 2024

Sneh Rana, Poonam Yadav, Heather Knight and Lea Tahuhu are among the many outstanding gamers launched by their respective Girls’s Premier League (WPL) franchises forward of the subsequent public sale within the lead-up to the 2025 season. The public sale is prone to be in early December and the purse has been elevated from INR 13.5 crore final season to INR 15 crore this 12 months. Right here is how the groups stack up at present.

Delhi Capitals

The largest title launched by Delhi Capitals (DC), the dropping finalists in each seasons of the WPL to date, was legspinner Poonam. As soon as a mainstay of the Indian crew throughout codecs, Poonam hasn’t performed worldwide cricket since March 2022. She did not get a recreation within the final WPL both.

Retained: Meg Lanning, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Radha Yadav, Arundhati Reddy, Shikha Pandey, Taniya Bhatia, Minnu Mani, Sneha Deepthi, Titas Sadhu, Marizanne Kapp, Jess Jonassen, Alice Capsey, Annabel Sutherland
Launched: Laura Harris, Poonam Yadav, Aparna Mondal, Ashwini Kumari
Purse remaining: INR 2.5 crore
Slots remaining: 4

Gujarat Giants

Gujarat Giants, who completed backside of the five-team desk in each seasons to date, let go of Rana, the allrounder who led them within the first season after captain Beth Mooney left the match with an damage, in addition to New Zealand’s Tahuhu and Scotland captain Kathryn Bryce.

Rana’ final white-ball recreation for India was in December 2023, her final T20I in February 2023. She has had a tough time on the WPL, too. In 12 matches throughout two seasons, she took solely six wickets at an financial system of 9.02 and scored 47 runs at a median of 6.71.

Tahuhu, a veteran of the sport, wasn’t certainly one of Giants’ most popular abroad gamers in 2024, taking part in simply two video games within the season for one wicket at an financial system of seven.60. Bryce performed all eight video games, averaged 20.75 with the bat and had an financial system fee of 8.66 with the ball.

GG additionally launched Lauren Cheatle, Mannat Kashyap, Veda Krishnamurthy and Tarannum Pathan, and may have the most important purse (INR 4.40 crore) going into the public sale.

Retained: Beth Mooney, Laura Wolvaardt, Phoebe Litchfield, Ashleigh Gardner, Dayalan Hemalatha, Tanuja Kanwar, Shabnam Shakil, Priya Mishra, Trisha Poojitha, Mannat Kashyap, Meghna Singh
Launched: Lea Tahuhu, Kathryn Bryce, Sneh Rana, Mannat Kashyap, Veda Krishnamurthy, Tarannum Pathan, Lauren Cheatle
Purse remaining: INR 4.4 crore
Slots remaining: 4

Mumbai Indians

Mumbai Indians retained their robust core of worldwide stars together with captain Harmanpreet Kaur, Amelia Kerr, Hayley Matthews, Chloe Tryon and Shabnim Ismail. The one abroad participant they launched was England quick bowler Issy Wong. Aside from her, they let go of Fatima Jaffer, Humaira Kazi and Priyanka Bala.

Retained: Amandeep Kaur, Amanjot Kaur, Amelia Kerr, Chloe Tryon, Harmanpreet Kaur, Hayley Mathews, Jintimani Kalita, Keerthana Balakrishnan, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Pooja Vastrakar, S Sajana, Saika Ishaq, Shabnim Ismail, Yastika Bhatia
Launched: Issy Wong, Fatima Jaffer, Humaira Kazi, Priyanka Bala
Purse remaining: INR 2.65 crore
Slots remaining: 4

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

England captain Knight, who had pulled out of the 2024 season because of worldwide obligation, was launched by defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru. They launched six different gamers, together with South Africa allrounder Nadine de Klerk who got here in as Knight’s alternative final season. Amongst Indians, Shubha Satheesh, Disha Kasat, Indrani Roy, Simran Bahadur and Shraddha Pokarkar had been let go of.

Retained: Smriti Mandhana, Ellyse Perry, Richa Ghosh, Sabbineni Meghana, Shreyanka Patil, Georgia Wareham, Asha Sobhana, Renuka Singh, Sophie Devine, Sophie Molineux, Ekta Bisht, Kanika Ahuja, Kate Cross, Danielle Wyatt-Hodge (traded from UPW)
Launched: Heather Knight, Nadine de Klerk, Shubha Satheesh, Disha Kasat, Indrani Roy, Simran Bahadur, Shraddha Pokharkar
Purse remaining: INR 3.25 crore
Slots remaining: 4

UP Warriorz

UP Warriorz (UPW), who made the playoffs after ending third on the desk within the first season however solely completed No. 4 in 2024, launched legspinner Parshavi Chopra and wicketkeeper Laxmi Yadav, who was added to the squad as an damage alternative for Uma Chetry, seamer S Yashasri and England quick bowler Lauren Bell. Chetry stays a part of the squad. UPW had earlier traded Danni Wyatt-Hodge to RCB.

Retained: Alyssa Healy, Kiran Navgire, Shweta Sehrawat, Deepti Sharma, Chamari Athapaththu, Grace Harris, Sophie Ecclestone, Tahlia McGrath, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Saima Thakor, Anjali Sarvani, Gouher Sultana, Poonam Khemnar, Uma Chetry, Vrinda Dinesh
Launched: Parshavi Chopra, Laxmi Yadav, S Yashasri, Lauren Bell
Purse remaining: INR 3.90 crore
Slots remaining: 3