{"id":326705,"date":"2026-03-12T23:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/326705\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T23:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:07:09","slug":"the-hundred-finn-allen-attracts-top-price-for-a-kiwi-in-auciton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/326705\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred: Finn Allen attracts top price for a Kiwi in auciton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">New Zealand bowlers were popular in the auction, with Lockie Ferguson going to Welsh Fire for $227,000, Trent Boult to MI London for $227,000 and Adam Milne to London Spirit for $113,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">Rachin Ravindra was retained by the Welsh Fire, while Daryl Mitchell went unsold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">Spinner Abrar Ahmed was bought by Sunrisers Leeds to allay concerns that Pakistan players would be ignored by franchises affiliated to the Indian Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">Abrar was bought for $432,000 by Leeds, the franchise entirely controlled by the owners of Sunrisers Hyderabad and based at Headingley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">Uncapped English 21-year-old spinner James Coles pipped more established names to fetch $888,000, the biggest price of the auction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">The Hundred, matches of which consist of 100 deliveries for each team, starts in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand bowlers were popular in the auction, with Lockie Ferguson going to Welsh Fire for $227,000, Trent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59500,78073,175962,38268,2082,5749,78,194,111,139,69,3333,213,223,3010],"class_list":["post-326705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-allen","tag-attracts","tag-auciton","tag-finn","tag-for","tag-hundred","tag-in","tag-kiwi","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-price","tag-sports","tag-the","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326705","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=326705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}