A number of high-profile names together with the likes of Babar Azam, Laura Wolvaardt and Shaheen Afridi will probably be on supply in The Hundred Draft forward of the third 12 months of the competitors.
Teams can have the decide of 881 gamers from 28 international locations once they choose their squads on Thursday March 23, with 113 gamers having been retained throughout each the lads’s and ladies’s competitions leaving 135 vacant spots.
Among the worldwide stars additionally available will probably be Jemimah Rodrigues, Mitchell Starc and Harmanpreet Kaur.
English gamers with out a group embrace Ben Duckett, Danni Wyatt, Sophia Dunkley, Sarah Glenn and Reece Topley, whereas Starc’s resolution to enroll sees him accompanied by fellow Australians in Marcus Stoinis, Adam Zampa, Mitchell Marsh, Grace Harris and Amanda-Jade Wellington.
Starc is one in all six gamers to have positioned a top-tier reserve value of £125,000 on themselves within the males’s draft alongside Kieron Pollard, Shakib Al Hasan, countrymen Stoinis and Zampa and Lancashire’s Tom Bailey.
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Welsh Fire occupy the No 1 decide within the males’s draft after dropping all eight video games in 2022, whereas their ladies’s group can even choose first by the use of their 1-5 report at the underside of the desk.
Trent Rockets enter as reigning males’s champions following their victory over Manchester Originals in final season’s last, with Oval Invincibles returning to chase down a 3rd consecutive ladies’s Hundred crown.
“It’s really great that the women’s competition is hosting The Hundred Draft for the first time this season,” stated Wolvaardt, prime run-scorer within the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup. “It goes to show the continued progression of the women’s game and you only need to look across the names already retained to see it’s a world-class competition. I’m really excited for the day itself and finding out where I’ll be playing next season. It’s a great competition, with big crowds, and it’s going to be a lot of fun to get out there this summer.”
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South African speedster Anrich Nortje additionally options among these up for grabs with Dane van Niekerk and Shabnim Ismail, and New Zealand are represented by Sophie Devine, Suzie Bates, Kane Williamson and Trent Boult. Pakistan’s Muhammad Rizwan, Haris Rauf and Diana Baig can even be available for choice, Kaur leads a bunch of Indian gamers together with Deepti Sharma and Shikha Pandey, Shakib Al Hasan flies the flag for Bangladesh, Pollard is joined by West Indies countryman Andre Russell and Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Mohammad Nabi of Afghanistan who’ve each signed up.
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup winner David Willey stated: “It’s always exciting when you watch a draft and you wait to see where you’re heading to play. The Hundred has been a lot of fun to play in across the last two seasons. We’ve had great crowds and they’ve made for some really good atmospheres. There’s a lot of world-class talent going into the draft and I’m looking forward to finding out where I’ll be playing in the summer.”
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