New investment brought major changes in the player auction, which took place in March.<\/p>\n
In both competitions, teams were allowed to pre-sign up to four players each. England white ball captain Harry Brook was the most expensive signing, staying at Sunrisers Leeds for \u00a3460,000.<\/p>\n
England white ball batter Phil Salt signed for Welsh Fire in a \u00a3450,000 move, while England fast bowler Jofra Archer remains at Southern Brave, having been picked up for \u00a3400,000.<\/p>\n
Archer is joined by England’s Test wicketkeeper Jamie Smith, joining the Brave for \u00a3300,000.<\/p>\n
English all-rounder James Coles broke the record for most expensive Hundred signing from the auction when joining London Spirit for \u00a3390,000. England wicket-keeper Jordan Cox also signed for Welsh Fire for \u00a3300,000.<\/p>\n
Former England Test captain Joe Root joined Welsh Fire for \u00a3240,000, while England white-ball spinner Adil Rashid was acquired for \u00a3250,000 by Southern Brave.<\/p>\n
England pace bowlers Josh Tongue and Gus Atkinson both signed for the Manchester Super Giants for \u00a3200,000 and \u00a370,000 respectively.<\/p>\n
In the women’s competition, England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt and Lauren Bell were the joint-most expensive retention signings at \u00a3140,000 each. All-rounder Sciver-Brunt is staying with the Trent Rockets, with Lauren Bell staying at Southern Brave.<\/p>\n
England all-rounder Alice Capsey has joined Birmingham Phoenix, having been sold for \u00a3130,000 in the retentions round.<\/p>\n
Following a one-year break from the competition, India batter Smriti Mandhana has joined Manchester Super Giants for \u00a390,000. England spinner Sophie Ecclestone is alongside, being retained at \u00a3110,000.<\/p>\n
New Zealand all-rounder Sophie Devine and Australia wicket-keeper Beth Mooney both recorded the most expensive women’s signings. The duo, both sold for \u00a3210,000, joined the Welsh Fire and Trent Rockets respectively.<\/p>\n
England fast bowler Issy Wong has signed for Southern Brave for \u00a3130,000. Wong joins England spinners Tilly Corteen-Coleman and Sarah Glenn, who the Brave signed for \u00a3105,000 and \u00a375,000 respectively.<\/p>\n
Batter Tammy Beaumont, who recently called time on her international career, was signed by Birmingham Phoenix for \u00a370,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New investment brought major changes in the player auction, which took place in March. In both competitions, teams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-701426","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\/701426","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=701426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}