The Hundred will break new floor in March when it phases its first-ever participant public sale, turning London’s Piccadilly Lights right into a dwell bidding area. With contemporary wage caps, new abroad guidelines and greater than 200 gamers within the pool, the 2026 season is being formed in public.
Right here’s all the things we all know in regards to the upcoming public sale to date:
When and the place is the public sale going down?
The participant public sale shall be held at Piccadilly Lights in London on:
Wednesday, March 11 – Girls’s public sale
Thursday, March 12 – Males’s public sale
What precisely is occurring?
All 16 Hundred franchises will bid to finish their squads for the 2026 season.
Every staff can choose as much as 14 gamers throughout their males’s and ladies’s squads.
Greater than 200 eligible gamers can be found within the public sale pool.
Who’re the headline names within the ladies’s public sale?
The ladies’s public sale opens proceedings on March 11.
Huge names accessible embrace:
- Beth Mooney
- Nadine de Klerk
- Amy Jones
Who’re the headline names within the males’s public sale?
The lads’s public sale takes place on March 12.
Among the many greatest names accessible:
- Joe Root
- Adil Rashid
- Jason Holder
What are the wage caps?
Males’s groups
Complete cap: £2.05 million
£950,000 already deducted (all groups made 4 pre-auction signings)
Remaining funds will depend on earlier signings
Girls’s groups
Complete cap: £880,000
Finances deductions:
£310,000 deducted (three signings made):
- Manchester Tremendous Giants Girls
- MI London Girls
- Sunrisers Leeds Girls
- Welsh Hearth Girls
£360,000 deducted (4 signings/retentions made):
- Birmingham Phoenix
- London Spirit
- Southern Courageous
- Trent Rockets
How are gamers categorised within the public sale?
Gamers are cut up into three tiers, primarily based on aggregated pre-registered curiosity from franchises:
Hero
Ranked
Nominated
The bidding order:
Hero gamers go first
Ranked gamers comply with
Nominated gamers are auctioned final
Which main gamers have already been signed?
Retained gamers
Jacob Bethell – Birmingham Phoenix
Jos Buttler – Manchester Tremendous Giants
Nat Sciver-Brunt – Trent Rockets
New signings
Mitchell Marsh – Sunrisers Leeds
Alice Capsey – Birmingham Phoenix
Smriti Mandhana – Manchester Tremendous Giants
What’s modified relating to abroad gamers?
Franchises can now signal 4 abroad gamers, up from the earlier restrict of three.
Printed on Feb 20, 2026