Deepti and Healy to feature in WPL’s marquee set:Kranti, Amelia and Lanning’s base price set at ₹50 lakh; 277 players to participate in bid

Before the Women’s Premier League (WPL) mega auction, the BCCI has shortlisted 277 players. There are 73 player slots vacant across 5 teams. The auction is scheduled to take place on November 27 in New Delhi. The UP Warriorz team will enter the auction with the largest purse of ₹14.50 crore. Meanwhile, Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians will have the smallest purses. Deepti, Healy included in marquee set In the WPL auction, the names of marquee players will come first. 8 players have been placed in this set, including India’s Deepti Sharma and Renuka Singh, along with 6 overseas players. These include New Zealand’s Sophie Devine, Amelia Kerr, England’s Sophie Ecclestone, Australia’s Meg Lanning, Alyssa Healy, and South Africa’s Laura Wolvaardt. Wolvaardt’s base price is 30 lakh rupees, and Renuka’s is 40 lakh rupees. Besides these, the base price for 6 players in the Marquee Set is 50 lakh rupees. In addition to this set, 13 other players will also have a base price of 50 lakh rupees. These include players like Phoebe Litchfield, Pooja Vastrakar, Kranti Goud, Pratika Rawal, and Georgia Wareham. 23 foreign player slots vacant in 5 teams After the completion of three seasons of WPL, a mega auction is now going to take place. There are 73 player slots vacant in 5 teams, out of which 23 can be foreign players. The auction features 83 foreign, 155 uncapped, and players from 4 associate nations. Besides these, 35 international players from India will also be in the auction. Bangladesh’s Shorna is the youngest Bangladesh all-rounder Shorna Akter and West Indies’ Jajra Claxton will be the youngest players in the auction. Shorna is 18, and Jajra is 19 years old. From India, 22-year-old Kranti Goud will also be participating in the auction. 5 teams have a purse of INR 41.10 crore
The 5 WPL teams have a purse of INR 41.10 crore. Among these, UP Warriorz will have the most, ₹14.50 crore, as they did not retain any player except uncapped Shweta Sehrawat. Champions Mumbai Indians will come into the auction with a purse of INR 5.75 crore, and runner-up Delhi Capitals with ₹5.70 crore. Gujarat Giants will come into the auction with a purse of ₹9 crore, and Royal Challengers Bangalore with ₹6.72 crore. Teams will also have 8 Right To Match (RTM) cards in the auction, of which UP Warriorz can use the most, 4. Gujarat has 3 and Bangalore has 1 RTM card. Inaugural WPL took place in 2023 The Women’s Premier League (WPL) started in 2023. Then Mumbai Indians won the title under the captaincy of Harmanpreet Kaur. Royal Challengers Bangalore lifted the second season’s title under the captaincy of Smriti Mandhana. And under Harman’s captaincy, Mumbai also won the title for the second time in 2025. All three times, Delhi Capitals were the runner-up under the captaincy of Meg Lanning.