Inaugural Women’s Premier League 2023 auction is being conducted on 13th February.
A total of 90 slots available to be filled from more than 400 players in the auction. Indian Women’s team captain Smriti Mandhana name was at the first in bidding list. Royal Challengers Bangalore bought the Indian women’s captain for 3.40 crore beating Mumbai Indians in a bidding war.
Following Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur was sold to Mumbai Indians at nearly half the price of Mandhana at Rs 1.80 crore. The second costliest Indian women player was Deepti Sharma who was bought by UP Warriorz for Rs 2.6 crore.
Australia’s star allrounder Ellyse Perry was fetched by Royal Challengers Bangalore for 1.70 crore who already have bought Smriti Mandhana. RCB has already spent Rs 5.60 crore out of Rs 12 crore purse and they need to get another 12 players with the rest of the Rs 6.40 crore to complete their 15-player quota.
