Women\u2019s cricket came of age in the ODI World Cup with hosts India crowned champions after they beat South Africa at a packed DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Warriorz brought back Deepti, a right-arm spinner and left-hand batter who was the player of the tournament with 22 wickets and 215 runs.<\/p>\n
The most expensive player ever sold at the WPL auction is India\u2019s Smriti Mandhana, who was bought by Royal Challengers Bengaluru for 34 million rupees (NZ$664,000) in 2023.<\/p>\n
Second on the list are Australia allrounder Ashleigh Gardner and England\u2019s Nat Sciver-Brunt who were sold for US$358,000 ($625,640) in the 2023 auction.<\/p>\n
Warriorz also got back England left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone for US$95,000 ($166,000).<\/p>\n
Warriorz used the right-to-match card \u2013 a rule that allows franchises to retain a player who was released by matching the highest bid \u2013 for both Deepti and Ecclestone.<\/p>\n
Another big signing for Warriorz was Australia legend Meg Lanning, who went to the franchise for US$212,000 ($370,490) and is seen as a potential captain.<\/p>\n
Some other notable foreign picks included, Australia batter Phoebe Litchfield ($134,000 \u2013 Warriorz) and South Africa skipper Laura Wolvaardt ($123,000 \u2013 Delhi Capitals).<\/p>\n
The most shocking outcome of the auction was that 35-year-old Healy had no takers after she missed this year\u2019s edition because of injury.<\/p>\n
Next year\u2019s WPL begins on January 9 with the final scheduled for February 5.<\/p>\n
The WPL, staged first in 2023, delivered the Indian cricket board roughly $700m in franchise and media rights alone.<\/p>\n
The deals made the WPL the world\u2019s second-most valuable women\u2019s sports league after WNBA women\u2019s basketball in the United States.<\/p>\n
– With AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s cricket came of age in the ODI World Cup with hosts India crowned champions after they beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[103860,103859,95,1978,868,16551,14739,10541,2082,4756,23900,14731,3025,111,139,69,6507,14730,7806,412,213,16550,2834],"class_list":["post-157044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-allrounder","tag-amelia","tag-and","tag-auction","tag-deals","tag-devine","tag-expensive","tag-ferns","tag-for","tag-foreign","tag-kerr","tag-league","tag-most","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overnight","tag-premier","tag-sign","tag-sophie","tag-sports","tag-white","tag-womens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}