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The Manchester Super Giants went toe-to-toe with the Rockets in a bidding war for the Women\u2019s Big Bash League\u2019s top run scorer.<\/p>\n
But Mooney will be calling Trent Bridge, not Old Trafford, home this July and August.<\/p>\n
Mooney\u2019s payday is a significant increase on the previous top wage of \u00a365,000.<\/p>\n
While it is 14 times higher than the top wage of \u00a315,000 when the tournament began in 2021.<\/p>\n
It also means that the top wages have overtaken the WBBL and are similar to the Women\u2019s Premier League in India.<\/p>\n
Many of Mooney\u2019s national teammates were highly sought after.<\/p>\n
Sunrisers Leeds spent big on Australians with Annabel Sutherland (\u00a3130,000\/$243,938), Phoebe Litchfield (\u00a3120,000\/$225,174) and Jess Jonassen (\u00a3110,000\/$206,409) all snapped up by the Headingley-based franchise.<\/p>\n
Ash Gardner (\u00a3100,000\/$187,645) will join Mooney at the Trent Rockets, while Ellyse Perry (\u00a3100,000\/$187,645) and Georgia Wareham (\u00a3100,000\/$187,645) also commanded a six-figure salary. <\/p>\n
Perry was bought by the Birmingham Phoenix and Wareham sold to the Welsh Fire.<\/p>\n
Meg Lanning (\u00a395,000\/$178,262) and Nicola Carey (\u00a395,000\/$178,262) earned impressive paydays from the Manchester Super Giants and MI London respectively.<\/p>\n
New Australian captain Sophie Molineux (\u00a347,500\/$89,131) was bought by the Southern Brave.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, all-rounder Dani Gibson went for \u00a3190,000 ($356,525) to Sunrisers Leeds to become the highest-paid Englishwoman.<\/p>\n
South Africa all-rounder Nadine de Klerk, who starred at the recent 50-over World Cup, went to London Spirit for \u00a3170,000 ($318,996).<\/p>\n
The Hundred has changed the way teams pick players this year. In the first auction of its kind in a major British sport, held in London, spending on women players skyrocketed.<\/p>\n
Stakes in the eight city-based franchises — which all have men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams — were sold last year to private investors, raising huge sums for cricket in England and Wales.<\/p>\n
Four of the franchises — Manchester Super Giants, Sunrisers Leeds, MI London and Southern Brave — are at least part-owned by companies that control Indian Premier League teams.<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s teams each have \u00a3880,000 available to fill their squads while men\u2019s sides have a budget of \u00a32.05 million. Their auction takes place on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The 2026 edition of the Hundred starts on July 21 and runs for four weeks.<\/p>\n
AUSSIES IN THE HUNDRED<\/p>\n
Birmingham Phoenix<\/p>\n
Ellyse Perry (\u00a3100,000)<\/p>\n
Alana King (\u00a337,500)<\/p>\n
Lucy Hamilton (\u00a335,000)<\/p>\n
London Spirit<\/p>\n
Grace Harris (\u00a370,000)<\/p>\n
Manchester Super Giants<\/p>\n
Meg Lanning (\u00a395,000)<\/p>\n
Maitlan Brown (\u00a340,000)<\/p>\n
MI London<\/p>\n
Nicola Carey (\u00a395,000)<\/p>\n
Southern Brave<\/p>\n
Sophie Molineux (\u00a347,500)<\/p>\n
Sunrisers Leeds<\/p>\n
Annabel Sutherland (\u00a3130,000) <\/p>\n
Phoebe Litchfield (\u00a3120,000)<\/p>\n
Jess Jonassen (\u00a3110,000)<\/p>\n
Trent Rockets<\/p>\n
Beth Mooney (\u00a3210,000)<\/p>\n
Ash Gardner (\u00a3100,000)<\/p>\n
Kim Garth (\u00a342,000)<\/p>\n
Welsh Fire<\/p>\n
Georgia Wareham (\u00a3100,000)<\/p>\n
Georgia Voll (\u00a380,000)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s gun wicketkeeper batter Beth Mooney was the most sought after commodity at the inaugural auction for English…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[6074,31021,1724,64,265194,63,689,41433,22249,740,1950,265190,152414,95509,2057,2105,25997,265199,12804,265196,1209,13849,46738,2022,39938,1736,78308,3583,677,158182,265200,38704,117543,128346,1183,18780,12540,265192,85,60133,2801,265193,265191,265195,3586,151554,265197,265198,264098],"class_list":["post-534361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-africa","tag-alyssa-healy","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-aussie-gun-cashes","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-beth-mooney","tag-big-bash-league","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-news","tag-dani-gibson","tag-day-international-company","tag-english-cricket","tag-europe","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-grace-harris","tag-gun-wicketkeeper","tag-hobart","tag-inaugural-auction","tag-india","tag-indian-premier-league","tag-kim-garth","tag-london","tag-meg-lanning","tag-new-zealand","tag-nicola-carey","tag-northern-europe","tag-oceania","tag-premier-league-in-india","tag-salary-increases","tag-series-win","tag-sophie-devine","tag-sophie-molineux","tag-south-africa","tag-southern-africa","tag-southern-asia","tag-spending-skyrockets","tag-sports","tag-steve-bell","tag-tasmania","tag-teams-pick-players","tag-top-run-scorer","tag-top-wage","tag-united-kingdom","tag-veteran-all-rounder","tag-watch-live-ampamp-free","tag-way-teams-pick","tag-women-players"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}