WPL 2023 Auction: Meg Lanning, Sophie Devine, Harmanpreet admits Women's Premier League 'distraction' amidst Women's T20 World Cup: Check WHY?

WPL 2023 Auction – Women Premier League: There will be a solid reason why some players will seem to appear preoccupied during the opening few days of the Women’s T20 World Cup 2023. On February 13, Mumbai will host the players’ auction for the first Women’s Premier League, which will impact the lives of the top athletes in the sport. As they work to keep their players focused on the current event, Meg Lanning and Sophie Devine acknowledge that the upcoming WPL auction may result in “awkward” moments during the ICC Women T20 WC in South Africa. Follow Women’s IPL Auction with InsideSport.IN

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WPL 2023 Auction: CHECK how Skippers Meg Lanning, Sophie Devine plan to tackle ‘awkward’ Women’s Premier League distraction amidst Women’s T20 World Cup 2023, Follow T20 WC 2023

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The long-awaited and eagerly anticipated Indian T20 league’s debut auction is expected to take place during the first week of the World Cup in South Africa, though the exact date has not yet been revealed.

“It’s going to be awkward … some people are going to get picked up, some won’t, and you’re going to get a value attached to what you’re worth, which as human beings isn’t the nicest thing, but it’s also a job and it’s what we’ve put our names in for,” New Zealand captain Devine told reporters in Cape Town on Saturday.

“It’s such a unique experience, I think you’d be naive to think that it’s not going to be a distraction, it’s just how you handle that.”

“But I just think it’s such an enormous step forward for women’s cricket and I’m really looking forward to it (but) there’s a World Cup going on at the same time, so how we manage that is (going to be important),” she concluded.

Each team’s salary budget is INR 12 crore for a roster of 15 to 18 players, and there are only 30 international berths available for players from full member countries, so the stakes are high for each player.

“It’s a new experience for us and at the same time we are focusing on what we’re trying to do here which is the most important thing,” Australia skipper Lanning said.

“As Soph said, it’s a little bit awkward, but it’s just trying to embrace that and understanding it’s actually a really exciting time and you actually don’t have a lot of control over most of it, so you’ve just got to wait and see,” she added.

WPL Players Auction

Despite discussions about a player draft, the BCCI decided to have a male IPL-style auction instead. The players’ reserved basic prices have been defined by the BCCI as being Rs 50, 40, and 20 lahks.

For uncapped players, it is Rs. 10 lahks and Rs. 20 lakh. There will be 150 players in the auction pool, and each team will have a wage cap of Rs 12 crore.

The BCCI has also given permission for 5 international players to join the starting XI. One of the five must, however, be from an associate country.