WPL Auction Set to Feature 120 Players Up for Bidding on December 15th

A total of 82 Indian players without any previous IPL caps and eight overseas players without any previous IPL experience have submitted their names for the auction.

Gujarat Giants will go into the exercise with the biggest purse of ₹4.4 crore. They need four players, including two overseas, from the mini-auction.

While UP Warriorz need to fill three slots, including one overseas player, the other three teams, Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, and Delhi Capitals will have four slots each to fill. RCB have no slots left to find another overseas player.

India's Sneh Rana (base price ₹30 lakh) could be among the key attractions during the auction which will also have West Indies' Deandra Dottin ( ₹50 lakh), who did not feature for Gujarat Giants in the first edition after being selected and went unsold in the second.

England's Heather Knight ( ₹50 lakh) will also feature in the first set after withdrawing from the second WPL auction, which was held in Bengaluru and New Delhi.

The list, however, does not feature England bowler Issy Wong, who claimed the first-ever hat-trick in the competition, as well as New Zealand's Leah Tahuhu.

Wong was released by the franchise ahead of the third season.