WPL Auction 2025 Highlights: Gujarat Giants’ Simran Shaikh, Deandra Dottin Most Expensive Purchases

The Women’s Premier League 2025 auction will be available for live te♏lecasting on the Star Sports and Sports18 channel from 3PM IST. Live strea♉ming of the WPL event will be available on the JioCinema app and website.

124 players will go under the hammer, with 19 slots to be filled. Each squad can haꦛve a maximum of six overseas players.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru, led by Smriti Mandhana, are the defending champions, after beating the Delhi Capitals in the WPL 2024 final at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. Luke Williams, the head coach, told that th🗹e team management retained a strong core to ensure consistency and trust.

🌌Gujarat Giants purse: 4.40 crore (f꧅our slots remaining, one overseas)

UP Warriorz purse: 3🌳🎉.90 crore (three slots remaining, one overseas)

Royals Challengers Bengaluru purse: 3.25 crore (four slots, zero ﷺoverseas)

Mumbai Indians purse: 2.65 crore (four 𒁃slots, one overseas)

Delhi Capitals purse💯: 2.50 crore (four slots, one overseas)

We now turn our attenti꧂on to Set 1 of the 2025 Women's Premier Leagye auction.

O🔴verall in the mini-auction, there are four price slabs – Rs 50 lakh, Rs 30 lakh, Rs 20 lakh and Rs 10 lakh

Mallika Sagar is the auctioneer for the 2025 Women's Premier League min♚i-auction. She was also the auctioneer for the recently held IPL Mega Auction.

The first player to go under the 🏅hammer for the evening is West Indian all-rounder Deandra Dottin, who has a base price of Rs 50 lakh.

After a brief bidding war between UP Warriorz and Gujarat Giants, Dott�🍸�in will play for the Giants.

Danielle Gibson of England, wi🧔th a base price of Rs 30 lakh and India’s Poonam Yadav, also with a base price of Rs 30 lakh have goไne unsold. 

England skipper Heather Knight, who entered the WPL 2025 mini-auction with a base price of Rs 50 lakh, wi𒅌ll rem🍃ain unsold.

West Indies all-rounder Chinelle Henry and English of🙈f-spinner Sarah Glenn, fail to find any buyers. Both the overseas players enteredꦍ with a base price of Rs 30 lakh.

Eng🍎land opener Maia Bouchier, and both of Australia’s 🍬Heather Graham and Darcie Brown will remain unsold.

Australia pacer Lauren Cheatle and India all-rounder Sneh Rana with a base price🐈 of 30 lakh, find no buyers.✅

South Africa all-rounder Nadine de Klerk has been signed by the inaugural WPL champions Mumbai Indians for her base price of Rs 30 lakh. 

Australia wrist spinner Alana King goes unsold, while Indian all-rounder Shubha Satheesh also goes unsold. Surprisingly, Ireland🎃 all-rounder Orla Prendergast also goes unsold. 

India🌜n wicketkeeper Sushma Verma and all-rounders C Prathyusha as well as ♔Tejas Hasabnis find no buyers. 

Uncapped𝓡 wicketkeeper G Kamalini will play for Mumbai Indians. The 16-year-old, with a base price of Rs 10 lakh is sold for 1.6 crore. Talk about talent, 🅘talk about opportunity and a platform.

Simran Shaikh, another🐲 uncapped player with a base price of Rs 10 lakh will play for Gujarat Giants. She also becomes ꦬthe most expensive player of the auction, with a winning bid of 1.9 crore. 

Delhi Capitals have signed uncapped wicketkeeper Nandini Kashyap for Rs 10 lakh, and it was coming as the Capitals needed a bac🥀k-up keeper. 

Uncapped all-rounder Tanisha ♔Singh, off-spinner Jagravi Pawar as well as aꦇll-rounder Raghvi Bish find no teams.

S Yashasri remains unsold, while batter Pratika Ra🌟wal also finds no buyers. While uncapped all-rounder Humℱairaa Kaazi goes unsold.

Prema Rawat will play for Royal Challengers Bengaluru with a b༺id of a war, with RCB ev🐟entually picking her for 1.2 crore. 

Australia’s Laura Harris, who had a base price of Rs 10 la😼kh finds no buyers, and so does Indian all-rounder Fatima Jaffer goes unsold.

Each of the five teams will submiꦅt five names for the acceleration auction which will get underway in 30 minutes. Indian domestic players however, have been the flair so far in t𝐆he mini-auction.

Deandﷺra Dottin (WI) - Rs 1.7 crore - Gujarat ꦐGiants 

Nadꦰine de Klerk (SA) - Rs 30 lakh - Mumbai Indians 

G Kamalini - Rs 1.6 crore Mumbai Indians 

Simran Shaikh - Rs 1.9 crore - Gujaಌrat Giants 

Nandini Kashyap - Rs 10 lakh - Delhi Capitals

Prema Rawat - Rs 1.2 crore Royal Challengers Bengalu🌠ru

N. Charani - Rs 55 lakh - Delhi Capitals

Here's a gli♋mpse of Kamalini's talent, technique playing against Pakistan in the Women's U19 Asia Cup.

Indian all-rounder Mansi Joshi, with a base price of Rs🌜 30 lakh will remain unsold. While on ༺the other hand, South Africa's Lizelle Lee and New Zealand pacer Rosemary Mair find no bidders.

Australia’s Milly Illingworth finds no team, while A🔯shwani Kumari’s future is the same. Amisha Bahukhandi and Priyanka Bala also find no buyers.

Niki Prasad𓆏 as well as uncapped pacer Rima Ekka go unsold, while UP Warriorz pick Kranti Goud for Rs 10 lakh.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru have picked 18-year-old Joshitha VJ for Rs 10 lakh, while 20-year-old all-rounder Sanskriti Gupta w𒐪ill play for Mumbai I🃏ndians.

Shivani Singh, Parunika Sisodia, 🌠Tess Flintoff, Tanusree Sarkar, Prakashika Naik, Komalpre🎐et Kour, and Shanu Sen are remain unsold. 

With just seven slots remaining, the auctioneer has asked every team to submit two moreℱ names for the♐ final segment.

UP Warriorz: Pu๊rse remaining - Rs 3.🎉70 crore, Slots left - 1

RCB: Purse re𝔉maining - Rs 1.95 crore, Slots left - 2

Delhi Capitals: Purse remai🌄ning - Rs 1.75 crore, Slots left - 1

Gujarat Giants: Purse rem🅷aining - Rs 80 lakh, Slots left - 2

Mumbai Indians: ꦍPurse remaining - Rs 65 lak🐭h, Slots left - 1

UP Warriorz picks Aussie leg spinner Alana King fo𒆙r Rs 30 lakh, while Lauren Bell and Graham H꧒eather remain unsold.

Shipra Giri, Parun🌳ika Sisodia, Hani Pate𝄹l, Pratika Rawal, Anusha Sundaresan, Indrani Roy, and Simran Bahadur find no teams.

Mumbai Indians pick Akshita M🍸aheshwari for 20 lakh, while Gujarat Giants sign Danielle Gibson for 30 lakh, and leg spinner Prakashika Naik for 10 lakh. 

Deandra Dottin (WI) - Gujarat 💮Giants - ♑Rs 1.70 crore

Nadine de Klerk (SA) 𓂃- Mumbai Indians - Rs 30 lakh

G Kamalini - Mumbai Indians - Rs 1.60 crore

Simran Shaikh - Gujarat Giants - Rs. 1.90 crore

Nandini Kashyap - Delhi Capitals - Rs 10 lakh

Prema Rawat - RCB - Rs 1.20 crore

N. Charani - Delhi Capitals - Rs 55 lakh

Arushi Goel - UP Warriorz - Rs 10 lakh

Kranti Goud - UP Warriorz - Rs 10 lakh

Sanskriti Gupta - Mumbai Indians - Rs 10 lakh

Joshitha VJ - RCB - Rs 10 lakh

Sarah Bryce (SCO) - Delhi Capitals - Rs 10 lakh

Alana King (AUS) - UP Warriorz - Rs 30 lakh

Raghvi Bist - RCB - Rs 10 lakh

Jagravi Pawar - RCB - Rs 10 lakh

Niki Prasad - Delhi Capitals - Rs 10 lakh

Akshita Maheshwari - Mumbai Indians - Rs 20 lakh

Danielle Gibson (EN༺G) - Gujarat Giants - Rꦆs 30 lakh

Prakashika Naik - Gujarat Giants - Rs 10 lakh

UP Warriorz: Alyssa Healy (c), Anjali Sarvani, Deepti Sharma, Grace Harris, Kiran Navgire, Rajeshwari Gayakwad,💦 Shweta Sehrawat, Sophie Ecclestone, Tahlia McGrath, Vrinda Dinesh, Saima Thakor, Poonam Khemnar, Gouher Sultana, Chamari Athapaththu, Uma Chetry, Arushi Goel, Kranti Goud, Alana King

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Smriti Mandhana (c), Sabbineni Meghana, Richa Ghosh, Ellyse Perry, Georgia Wareham, Shreyanka Patil, Asha Sobhana, Sophie Devine, Renuka Singh, Sophie Molineux, Ekta Bisht, Kate Cross, Kanika Ahuja, Danni Wyatt (traded), Prema Rawat, Joshithജa VJ, Raghvi Bist, Jagravi Pawar, Niki Prasad

Gujarat Giants: Ashleigh Gardner, Beth Mooney (c), Dayalan Hemalatha, Harleen Deol, Laura Wolvaardt, Shabnam Shakil, Tanuja Kanwer, Phoebe Litchfield, Meghna 𒐪Singh, Kashvee Gautam, Priya Mishra, Mannat Kashyap, Bharti Fulmali, Sayali Satghare, Deandra Dottin, Simran Shaikh, Danielle Gibson, Prakashika Naik

Mumbai Indians: 🍸Mumbai Indians: Amanjot Kaur, Amelia Kerr, Chloe Tryon, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Hayley Matthews, Jintimani Kalita, Natalie Sciver, Pooja Vastrakar, Saika Is🍌haque, Yastika Bhatia, Shabnim Ismail, Amandeep Kaur, S. Sajana, Keerthana, Nadine de Klerk, G. Kamalini, Sanskriti Gupta, Akshita Maheshwari

Delhi Capitals: Alice Capsey, Arundhati Reddy, Jemimah Rodrigues, Jess Jonassen, Marizanne Kapp, Meg Lanning (c), Minnu Mani, Radh💫a Yadav, Shafali Verma, Shikha Pa♔ndey, Sneha Deepthi, Taniyaa Bhatia, Titas Sadhu, Annabel Sutherland, Nandini Kashyap, N Charani, Sarah Bryce

Thank you ꦚso much for joining us, and we will see you soon. Until next time, take car🔥e and goodbye.