New Zealand’s Sophie Devine and Beth Mooney of Australia topped the bidding within the inaugural public sale for English cricket’s girls’s Hundred on Wednesday, every securing offers value £210,000.
All-rounder Dani Gibson went for £190,000 to Sunrisers Leeds to change into the highest-paid Englishwoman whereas South Africa all-rounder Nadine de Klerk, who starred on the current 50-over World Cup, went to London Spirit for £170,000.
Former New Zealand captain Devine will play for the Welsh Hearth whereas Trent Rockets gained the race to signal star batter and wicketkeeper Mooney, 32.
The Hundred has modified the best way groups choose gamers this yr. Within the first public sale of its variety in a significant British sport, held in London, spending on girls gamers skyrocketed.
Final yr’s cap, beneath a draft system, was £65,000.
Stakes within the eight city-based franchises — which all have males’s and girls’s groups — had been offered final yr to non-public buyers, elevating large sums for cricket in England and Wales.
4 of the franchises — Manchester Tremendous Giants, Sunrisers Leeds, MI London and Southern Courageous — are not less than part-owned by firms that management Indian Premier League groups.
Ladies’s groups every have £880,000 accessible to fill their squads whereas males’s sides have a price range of £2.05 million. Their public sale takes place on Thursday.
The 2026 version of the Hundred begins on July 21 and runs for 4 weeks.
Printed on Mar 11, 2026