On Monday, October 19, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced that the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2027 auction would take place in Kochi on Wednesday, October 28.
A total of 146 players have been shortlisted for the auction, with five franchises set to compete for 27 available slots. The pool comprises 119 Indian players and 27 overseas cricketers.
Among the Indians, 22 are capped, and 97 are uncapped, while the overseas contingent includes 14 capped and 13 uncapped players, including six from Associate Nations. The auction is scheduled to begin at 5:30 PM IST.
On that note, let’s take a look at players who registered for the auction along with their base prices.
Players with a base price of ₹50 lakh
Sophia Dunkley, Sophie Molineux
Players with a base price of ₹40 lakh
G Kamalini, Kiran Navgire, Heather Graham, Jess Jonassen
Players with a base price of ₹30 lakh
Batters and all-rounders: Raghvi Bist, Tejal Hasabnis, Ayushi Soni, Chamari Athapaththu, Grace Harris, Orla Prendergast, Sneh Rana, Annerie Dercksen, Kayla Reyneke, Chloe Tryon, Simran Bahadur, Mona Meshram, Anjali Sarvani and Meghna Singh.
Wicketkeepers: Taniyaa Bhatia, Uma Chetry, Nuzhat Parween and Sushma Verma.
Bowlers: Mithali Ayodya, Rosemary Mair, Titas Sadhu, Saima Thakor, Tayla Vlaeminck, Saika Ishaque, Priya Mishra, Nonkululeko Mlaba, Asha Sobhana, Preeti Bose, Shuchi Upadhyay and Devika Vaidya.
Players with a base price of ₹20 lakh
Yashasri S, Tanisha Ohlan, Yashasvi Katta, Triveni Vashistha
Players with a base price of ₹10 lakh
Batters: Vrinda Dinesh, Humairaa Kaazi, Disha Kasat, Gautami Naik, Shweta Sehrawat, Purvaja Verlekar, Saanika Chalke, Pranavi Chandra, Ira Jadhav, Shraddha Nabira, Varnika Singh, Monika Devi, Divya Ganesh, Bhavana Goplani, Harsimran Kaur, Ayesha Shaikh and Inchara Umesh.
All-rounders: Sujata Dey, Tess Flintoff, Poonam Khemnar, Anandita Kishor, Charli Knott, Pragati Singh, Maitlan Brown, Kathryn Bryce, Darcey Carter, Uma Kashvi, Amandeep Kaur, Joshitha VJ, Nazma Khan, Vidhi Parmar, Deeksha Sharma, Shivi Sharma, Kanishka Thakur, Gongadi Trisha, Akshita Bhagat, Esha Oza, Maddie Penna, Aayushi Shukla, Anaadi Tagde, Manali Dakshini, Roshini Kiran, Palnati Rishika Krishnan, Henrietta Pereira, Tanisha Singh, Sonal Thakur, Keerthana Balakrishnan, Kira Chathli, Salonee Dangore, Arya Gohane, Milly Illingworth, Nalla Reddy, Suman Meena, Sonia Mendhiya, Anshu Nagar, Dnyaneshwari Patil, Sahana Pawar, Karri Poojitha, Kaku Barman, Bidisha Dey, Shishira Gowda, Dimple Kanwar, Sonali Singh, Mithila Vinod, Fatima Jaffer, Karnika Karthick, Ishita Khale, Neetu Singh, Soumya Singh, Jazmine Gill, Bharati Singh, Kalpana Singh, Palak Singh, Rekha Singh and Nisha Verma.
Wicketkeepers: Bhavika Ahire, Sarah Bryce, Latika Inamdar, Shivani Singh, Khushi Bhatia, Riya Chaudhari, Babette De Leede and Pragya Rawat.
Bowlers: Rima Ekka, Shraddha Pokharkar, Shabnam Shakil, Eddla Srujana, Samantha Bates, Bharti Rawal, Shanu Sen, Parunika Sisodia, Sonam Yadav, Anshu Apurva, Nandhana Sridharan, Jyoti Thakur, Gargi Wankar, Apeksha Anand, Nikita Chauhan, Kirstie Gordon, Shreya Shrivas and Poonam Soni.
