New Delhi: The auctions for the inaugural Women’s Premier League were held on February 13 and it was a day to be recorded in the history of cricket. India’s star batter and vice-captain Smriti Mandhana was the player sold for the highest amount as RCB bid Rs 3.4 crore for her. She was also the first player to be auctioned and sold, followed by the Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur.
Base Price: INR 50 Lakh
Goes to @RCBTweets: INR 3.40 Crore
How about that for the first-ever Player Bid in the history of the #WPLAuction! ? ? pic.twitter.com/TYo51Auiz4
— Women’s Premier League (WPL) (@wplt20) February 13, 2023
Among the overseas players, in-form Australian batter Ashleigh Gardner and Nat Sciver were sold for Rs 3.2 crore to Gujarat Giants and Mumbai Indians respectively. The auction also witnessed U-19 World Cup-winning players earn good amounts today.
Here is the list of players sold in the auctions (from highest to lowest):
| Player | Team | Bid (in Rs) |
| Smriti Mandhana | RCB | 3.4 crore |
| Ashleigh Gardner | Gujarat Giants | 3.2 crore |
| Nat Sciver | MI | 3.2 crore |
| Deepti Sharma | UP Warriorz | 2.6 crore |
| Jemimah Rodrigues | DC | 2.2 crore |
| Shafali Verma | DC | 2 crore |
| Beth Mooney | Gujarat Giants | 2 crore |
| Pooja Vastrakar | MI | 1.9 crore |
| Richa Ghosh | RCB | 1.9 crore |
| Harmanpreet Kaur | MI | 1.8 crore |
| Sophie Eccelstone | UP Warriorz | 1.8 crore |
| Ellyse Perry | RCB | 1.7 crore |
| Renuka Singh Thakur | RCB | 1.5 crore |
| Marizanne Kapp | DC | 1.5 crore |
| Yastika Bhatia | MI | 1.5 crore |
| Tahlia McGrath | UP Warriorz | 1.4 crore |
| Devika Vaidya | UP Warriorz | 1.4 crore |
| Meg Lanning | DC | 1.1 crore |
| Shabnim Ismail | UP Warriorz | 1 crore |
| Amelia Kerr | MI | 1 crore |
| Sneh Rana | Gujarat Giants | 75 lakh |
| Grace Harris | UP Warriorz | 75 lakh |
| Georgia Wareham | Gujarat Giants | 75 lakh |
| Alice Capsey | DC | 75 lakh |
| Annabel Sutherland | Gujarat Giants | 70 lakh |
| Alyssa Healy | UP Warriorz | 70 lakh |
| Sophia Dunkley | Gujarat Giants | 60 lakh |
| Deandra Dottin | Gujarat Giants | 60 lakh |
| Shikha Pandey | DC | 60 lakh |
| Sushma Verma | Gujarat Giants | 60 lakh |
| Anjali Sarvani | UP Warriorz | 55 lakh |
| Sophie Devine | RCB | 50 lakh |
| Amanjot Kaur | MI | 50 lakh |
| Tanuja Kanwer | Gujarat Giants | 50 lakh |
| Jess Jonassen | DC | 50 lakh |
| Laura Harris | DC | 45 lakh |
| Rajeshwari Gayakwad | UP Warriorz | 40 lakh |
| Harleen Deol | Gujarat Giants | 40 lakh |
| Radha Yadav | DC | 40 lakh |
| Shweta Sehrawat | UP Warriorz | 40 lakh |
| Hayley Matthews | MI | 40 lakh |
| Heather Knight | RCB | 40 lakh |
| Megan Schutt | RCB | 40 lakh |
| Kanika Ahuja | RCB | 35 lakh |
| Ashwani Kumari | Gujarat Giants | 35 lakh |
| KP Nagvire | UP Warriorz | 30 lakh |
| Lauren Bell | UP Warriorz | 30 lakh |
| Monica Patel | Gujarat Giants | 30 lakh |
| Erin Burns | RCB | 30 lakh |
| Heather Graham | MI | 30 lakh |
| Isabelle Wong | MI | 30 lakh |
| Mansi Joshi | Gujarat Giants | 30 lakh |
| Dayalan Hemalatha | Gujarat Giants | 30 lakh |
| Sabbineni Meghana | Gujarat Giants | 30 lakh |
| Minnu Mani | DC | 30 lakh |
| Taniyaa Bhatia | DC | 30 lakh |
| Poonam Yadav | DC | 30 lakh |
| Sneha Deepthi | DC | 30 lakh |
| Arundhati Reddy | DC | 30 lakh |
| Chloe Tryon | MI | 30 lakh |
| Dane van Neikerk | RCB | 30 lakh |
| Preeti Bose | RCB | 30 lakh |
| Titas Sadhu | DC | 25 lakh |
| Komal Zanzad | RCB | 25 lakh |
| Jasia Akhter | DC | 20 lakh |
| Priyanka Bala | MI | 20 lakh |
| Disha Kasat | RCB | 10 lakh |
| Saika Ishque | MI | 10 lakh |
| Parshavi Chopra | UP Warriorz | 10 lakh |
| S Yashasri | UP Warriorz | 10 lakh |
| Tara Norris | DC | 10 lakh |
| Shriyanka Patil | RCB | 10 lakh |
| Asha Shobana | RCB | 10 lakh |
| Laxmi Yadav | UP Warriorz | 10 lakh |
| Indrani Roy | RCB | 10 lakh |
| Young Hurley Gala | Gujarat Giants | 10 lakh |
| Simran Shaikh | UP Warriorz | 10 lakh |
| Humairaa Kaazi | MI | 10 lakh |
| Poonam Khemnar | RCB | 10 lakh |
| Parunika Sisodia | Gujarat Giants | 10 lakh |
| Shabnam Shakil | Gujarat Giants | 10 lakh |
| Sonam Yadav | MI | 10 lakh |
| Jintimani Kalita | MI | 10 lakh |
| Neelam Bisht | MI | 10 lakh |
| Sahana Pawar | RCB | 10 lakh |
Unsold players:
Suzie Bates
Tazmin Brits
Laura Wolvaardt
Tammy Beaumont
Sune Luus
Danni Wyatt
Chamari Athapaththu
Anushka Sanjeewani
Bernadine Bezuidenhout
Amy Jones
Shamilia Connell
Freya Davies
Jahanara Alam
Lea Tahuhu
Ayabonga Khaka
Shakera Selman
Sarah Glenn
Nonkululeko Mlaba
Inoka Ranaweera
Alana King
Afy Fletcher
Fran Jonas
Leigh Kasperek
Nadine de Klerk
Salma Khatun
Hrishita Basu
Grace Scrivens
Archana Devi
G Trisha
Mannat Kashyap
Najla CMC
Shabnam MD
Falak Naz
Sonia Mendhiya
Shorna Akter
Shikha Shalot
Soumya Tiwari
Priya Punia
Bharti Fulmali
Kim Garth
Katherine Sciver-Brunt
Simran Bahadur
Anuja Patil
Swagatika Rath
Meghna Singh
Gouher Sultana
Ekta Bisht
Mahika Gaur
Divya G
Ishwari Savkar
Arushi Goel
Shipra Giri
Tarannum Pathan
Sajana S
Nishu Choudhary
Sarah Bryce
Kathryn Bryce
Tess Flintoff
Neetu Singh
Parushi Prabhakar
