{"id":374868,"date":"2026-01-17T08:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/374868\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T08:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:26:07","slug":"the-hundred-mens-and-womens-squads-for-2026-season-which-runs-from-july-21-august-16-live-on-sky-sports-cricket-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/374868\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred: Men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s squads for 2026 season which runs from July 21-August 16 live on Sky Sports | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s squads for the 2026 season of The Hundred,  which runs from July 21-August 16, live on Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Teams are allowed up to four pre-auction signings from mid-November to the end of January.<\/p>\n<p>A maximum of three of these can be direct signings, and must be an overseas or England centrally-contracted player.<\/p>\n<p>A minimum of one will be a retention which can be any player &#8211; England centrally contracted, overseas or domestic.<\/p>\n<p>The Hundred auction is likely to take place in March 2026, after the closure of the direct-signing window.<\/p>\n<p>        Instagram<\/p>\n<p>                This content is provided by Instagram, which may be using cookies and other technologies.<br \/>\n                To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies.<br \/>\n                You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enable Instagram cookies or to allow those cookies just once.<br \/>\n                You can change your settings at any time via the <a href=\"#privacy-options\">Privacy Options<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Instagram cookies.<br \/>\n                To view this content you can use the button below to allow Instagram cookies for this session only.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-permanently\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"instagram\" data-show-on-fallback=\"false\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-allow\">Enable Cookies<\/a><br \/>\n                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-once\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"instagram\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-allow-once\">Allow Cookies Once<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hundred squads for 2026Birmingham Phoenix Women<\/p>\n<p>Direct signings<br \/>Alice Capsey, Lauren Filer, Lucy Hamilton (Australia)<\/p>\n<p>Retained players<br \/>Ellyse Perry (Australia)<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham Phoenix Men<\/p>\n<p>Direct signings<br \/>Rehan Ahmed, Mitch Owen (Australia)<\/p>\n<p>Retained players<br \/>Jacob Bethell<\/p>\n<p>London Spirit Women<\/p>\n<p>TBC<\/p>\n<p>London Spirit Men<\/p>\n<p>TBC<\/p>\n<p>Manchester Super Giants Women<\/p>\n<p>Retained players<br \/>Sophie Ecclestone<\/p>\n<p>Direct signings<br \/>Meg Lanning (Australia), Smriti Mandhana (India)<\/p>\n<p>Manchester Super Giants Men<\/p>\n<p>Retained players<br \/>Noor Ahmad (Afghanistan), Jos Buttler, Heinrich Klaasen (South Africa)<\/p>\n<p>Direct signings<br \/>Liam Dawson<\/p>\n<p>Sunrisers Leeds Women<\/p>\n<p>Retained players<br \/>Kate Cross, Phoebe Litchfield (Australia), Annabel Sutherland (Australia)<\/p>\n<p>Sunrisers Leeds Men<\/p>\n<p>Retained players<br \/>Harry Brook, Brydon Carse<\/p>\n<p>Direct signings<br \/>Nathan Ellis (Australia), Mitchell Marsh (Australia)<\/p>\n<p>MI London Women<\/p>\n<p>Direct signings<br \/>Danni Wyatt-Hodge<\/p>\n<p>MI London Men<\/p>\n<p>Retained players<br \/>Sam Curran, Will Jacks<\/p>\n<p>Southern Brave Women<\/p>\n<p>TBC<\/p>\n<p>Southern Brave Men<\/p>\n<p>TBC<\/p>\n<p>Trent Rockets Women<\/p>\n<p>Direct signings<br \/>Sophia Dunkley<\/p>\n<p>Retained players<br \/>Nat Sciver-Brunt, Ash Gardner (Australia)<\/p>\n<p>Trent Rockets Men<\/p>\n<p>Direct signings<br \/>Ben Duckett, Tim David (Australia)<\/p>\n<p>Retained players<br \/>Tom Banton<\/p>\n<p>Welsh Fire Women<\/p>\n<p>TBC<\/p>\n<p>Welsh Fire Men<\/p>\n<p>Direct signings<br \/>Phil Salt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Check out the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s squads for the 2026 season of The Hundred, which runs from July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-374868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}