skipped it last year to manage his workload<\/a>.<\/p>\nMark Wood, currently recovering from a knee injury after the Ashes, is not on the list, nor is veteran bowler James Anderson.<\/p>\n
The overseas names include South Africa internationals Quinton de Kock, David Miller and Aiden Markram, plus West Indies internationals Jason Holder, Sherfane Rutherford and Shimron Hetmyer.<\/p>\n
Pakistan’s Saim Ayub, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz and Naseem Shah have also registered at the highest men’s reserve price of \u00a3100,000. Usman Tariq, Pakistan’s mystery spinner, is also on the list.<\/p>\n
Squads will be made up of between 16 to 18 players, while there is a salary cap limit along with a salary collar – a minimum amount teams must spend.<\/p>\n
The salary pot in the men’s competition for 2026 has risen by 45% to \u00a32.05m per side, and the fund for women’s teams has increased by 100% to \u00a3880,000.<\/p>\n
England internationals Em Arlott, Amy Jones, Danielle Gibson, Sarah Glenn and Linsey Smith are among the women’s players to enter the draft at the \u00a350,000 reserve price.<\/p>\n
Davina Perrin, who scored a century aged 18 in last year’s eliminator, has set her reserve price at \u00a337,500.<\/p>\n
South Africa all-rounder Nadine de Klerk, New Zealand’s Sophie Devine, Australia’s Beth Mooney and India’s Richa Ghosh are the other women’s players in the highest bracket. India captain Harmanpreet Kaur is a notable absentee.<\/p>\n
There are no Indians on the men’s list. <\/p>\n
Current India men’s internationals are not currently allowed to play in franchise leagues other than the Indian Premier League<\/a> but England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Richard Thompson has said it is “only a matter of time” before they feature in The Hundred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In total, 964 players have signed up for the auction, which will be the first of its kind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-436609","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\/436609","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=436609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}