{"id":393138,"date":"2026-01-27T12:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393138\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T12:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:43:08","slug":"the-hundred-2026-inaugural-ipl-style-player-auction-to-be-held-in-london-on-11-12-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393138\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred 2026: Inaugural IPL-style player auction to be held in London on 11-12 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Hundred&#8217;s inaugural player auction will be held in London on 11 and 12 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the first five editions of the competition, players were allocated to teams via a draft system with a set of salary tiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But following substantial private investment in The Hundred, players not already signed or retained will now have their team and pay set by an auction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The shift to a system similar to the one used in the Indian Premier League (IPL) has been driven by new investors in the eight city-based franchises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Auctions are a feature of a number of T20 franchise leagues, with the IPL holding one since its inception in 2008, but this will be the first major instance in UK sporting history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four of The Hundred&#8217;s sides are now part-owned by groups that also control franchises in the IPL, which is reflected in the new team names of MI London, Sunrisers Leeds and Manchester Super Giants. The fourth, Southern Brave &#8211; backed by Delhi Capitals &#8211; have retained their original name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The women&#8217;s auction will take place on 11 March with the men&#8217;s auction 24 hours later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hundred&#8217;s inaugural player auction will be held in London on 11 and 12 March. For the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-393138","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\/393138","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=393138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}