Key events
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Jo-Anne Gardner joins the SuperGiants for £17,000
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Eva Gray joins Birmingham Phoenix for £30,000
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Heather Graham joins Welsh Fire for £27,500
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Lauren Winfield-Hill joins Sunrisers Leeds for £27,500
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Millicent Taylor joins Trent Rockets for £27,500
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Jodi Grewcock joins Southern Brave for £30,000
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Grace Potts joins Welsh Fire
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Kira Chathli joins MI London for £80,000
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Alice Monaghan joins MI London for £27,500
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Cordelia Griffith joins Birmingham Phoenix for £27,500
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Bess Heath joins Trent Rockets for £32,500
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Ailsa Lister joins the Trent Rockets for £30,000
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Sarah Bryce joins Welsh Fire for £25,000
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Ella McCaughan joins Welsh Fire for £30,000
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Ryana MacDonald-Gay goes to Manchester Super Giants for £75,000
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The most expensive signings of the morning
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Squads as they stand
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Lucy Higham joins London Spirit for £15,000
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Samantha Bates, Rebecca Tyson and Amanda-Jade Wellington and are unsold
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Hannah Baker moves to Sunrisers for £18,000
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Alice Davidson-Richards joins MI London for £30,000
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Shree Charani is unsold.
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Nicola Carey joins MI London £95,000
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Mady Villiers joins Manchester SuperGiants for £45,000
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Em Arlott joins Welsh Fire for £110,000
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Grace Scivens joins the Supergiants for £40,000
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Paige Scholfield joins Manchester Super Giants for £115,000
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Eve Jones and Sune Luus unsold
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Hollie Armitage joins MI London for £27,500
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Seren Smale joins London Spirit £15,000
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Yastika Bhatia and Georgia Redmayne unsold
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Richa Ghosh joins Manchester Supergiants for £50,000
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Lauren Winfield-Hill is unsold
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Kirstie Gordon joins MI London for £27,500
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Alana King joins Welsh Fire for £37,500
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Sophia Smale joins Welsh Fire for £20,000
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Tilly Corteen-Coleman joins Southern Brave for £105,000
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Linsey Smith joins Birmingham Phoenix for £100,000
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Deandra Dottin joins London Spirit for £37, 500
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Jess Jonassen joins Sunrisers Leeds for £110,000
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Georgia Adams is unsold
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Chinelle Henry joins MI London for £70,000
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Kathryn Bryce joins Manchester Super Giants for £65,000
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Maitland Brown joins Supergiants for £40,000
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Issy Wong joins Southern Brave for £130,0oo
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One woman amongst the eight women’s head coaches
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Shabnim Ismail and Lauren Cheatle are unsold
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Grace Ballinger joins Trent Rockets for £42,500
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Bryony Smith joins Sunrisers Leeds for £27,500
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Emma Lamb joins Birmingham Phoenix £27,500
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No bids for Tazmin Brits
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Lizelle Lee joins Souther Brave for £27,500
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Sterre Kalis is unsold
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Beth Mooney joins Trent Rockets for £210,000
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Sophie Mollineaux joins Southern Brave for £47,500
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Sophie Devine joins Welsh fire for £210,000
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Deepti Sharma joins Sunrisers Leeds for £27,500
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Nadine de Klerk joins London Spirit for £170,000
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Dani Gibson joins Sunrisers for £190,000
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Tammy Beaumont joins Birmingham Phoenix for £70,000
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Where are the women?
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Southern Brave buy Sarah Glenn for £75,000
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London Spirit buy Amy Jones for £70,000
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Birmingham Phoenix buy Davina Perrin for £50,000
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Finances
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The Franchises
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Preamble
Jo-Anne Gardner joins the SuperGiants for £17,000
The room isn’t buzzing with big dog energy right now. But Super Giants rouse themselves to snatch Gardner from under the Sunrisers’ nose.
Relief all round as everyone takes a quick break.
Eva Gray joins Birmingham Phoenix for £30,000
After playing for Oval Invincibles and London Spirit, Gray heads to the Midlands.
Heather Graham joins Welsh Fire for £27,500
Just the one bid again.
Lauren Winfield-Hill joins Sunrisers Leeds for £27,500
After missing out in the morning’s bids, LWH is snapped up by the Sunrisers, with no competition.
Millicent Taylor joins Trent Rockets for £27,500
Mick Newell raises his paddle for £24,000 but is outbid by the Supergiants. Not looking entirely in his comfort zone, he raises his paddle again to seal the deal.
Jodi Grewcock joins Southern Brave for £30,000
The bidding crawls along, but suddenly accelerates into a £30,000 pay day.
Grace Potts joins Welsh Fire
One bid only.
Kira Chathli joins MI London for £80,000
Everyone perks up for Kira Chathli: Welsh Fire v MI London, up it goes, higher and higher. Sunrisers fancy her too but the hammer goes down on a £80,000 bid from The Oval.
Alice Monaghan joins MI London for £27,500
Lisa Keighley wants Alice Monaghan and Lisa Keighley gets Alice Monaghan.
Cordelia Griffith joins Birmingham Phoenix for £27,500
I lost concentration for a while, but Phoenix pull the table cloth from under London Spirit.
Bess Heath joins Trent Rockets for £32,500
Some ponderous bidding. Someone from Sunrisers has a whispered phone call down the line and the bid is raised to £30,000. But Trent Rockets win the day.
Ailsa Lister joins the Trent Rockets for £30,000
Lancashire’s Scottish wicketkeeper Lister is off to Trent Bridge.
Sarah Bryce joins Welsh Fire for £25,000
Another post-prandial purchase for Welsh Fire.
Ella McCaughan joins Welsh Fire for £30,000
A to and fro between the Super Giants and Welsh Fire, with Welsh Fire winning the day.
Ryana MacDonald-Gay goes to Manchester Super Giants for £75,000
Plenty of interest in 22 year old allrounder MacDonald-Gay, veteran of just one IT20, and the SuperGiants write the biggest cheque.
Right, here we go for the next round. of bidding. These 50 players have been ranked according to the number of teams who have put them forward.
Plenty of shopping for Trent Rockets to do, they’ve only bought one player so far – but it was the big money Beth Rooney.
The most expensive signings of the morning
Sophie Devine £210,000 (WF)
Beth Mooney £210,000 (TR)
Dani Gibson £190,000 (SL)
Nadine de Klerk £170,000 (LS)
Issy Wong £130,000 (SB)
Tilly Corteen-Coleman (SB)
Paige Scholfield £115,000 (MSG)
Em Arlott £110,000 (WF)
Jess Jonassen £110,000 (SR)
Linsey Smith £100,000 (BP)
Things will restart in Piccadilly at 2pm GMT, so time for a quick turn round the block in the sunshine.
Squads as they stand
Names in italics were signed up before today.
Birmingham Phoenix
Alice Capsey, £130,000
Ellyse Perry, £100,000
Linsey Smith, £100,000
Lauren Filer, £95,000
Tammy Beaumont, £70,000
Davina Perrin, £50,000
Alana King, £37,500
Lucy Hamilton £35,000
Emma Lamb, £27,500
London Spirit
Nadine de Klerk, £170,000
Marizanne Kapp, £130,000
Charlie Dean, £85,000
Mahika Gaur, £75,000
Grace Harris, £70,000
Amy Jones, £70,000
Deandra Dottin, £37,500
Seren Smale, £15,000
Lucy Higham, £15,000
Manchester Super Giants
Paige Scholfield, £115,000
Sophie Ecclestone, £110,000
Meg Lanning, £95,000
Smriti Mandhana, £90,000
Kathryn Bryce, £65,000
Richa Ghosh, £50,000
Mady Villiers, £45,000
Grace Ballinger, £42,500
Maitlan Brown, £40,000
Grace Scrivens, £40,000
MI London
Hayley Matthews, £120,000
Danni Wyatt-Hodge, £110,000
Nic Carey, £95,000
Melie Kerr, £80,000
Chinelle Henry, £70,000
Kirstie Gordon, £55,000
Hollie Armitage, £45,000
Alice Davidson-Richards, £30,000
Southern Brave
Lauren Bell, £140,000
Issy Wong, £130,000
Tilly Corteen-Coleman, £105,000
Maia Bouchier, £85,000
Laura Wolvaardt, £75,000
Sarah Glenn, £75,000
Jemimah Rodrigues, £60,000
Sophie Molineux, £47,500
Lizelle Lee, £27,500
Sunrisers Leeds
Danielle Gibson, £190,000
Annabel Sutherland, £130,000
Phoebe Litchfield, £120,000
Jess Jonassen, £110,000
Kate Cross £50,000
Deepti Sharma, £27,500
Bryony Smith, £27,500
Hannah Baker, £18,000
Trent Rockets
Beth Mooney, £210,000
Nat Sciver-Brunt, £140,000
Ash Gardner, £100,000
Sophia Dunkley, £78,000
Kim Garth, £42,000
Welsh Fire
Sophie Devine, £210,000
Freya Kemp, £120,000
Em Arlott, £110,000
Georgia Wareham, £100,000
Georgia Voll, £80,000
Alana King £37,500
Sophia Smale, £20,000
Here’s this week’s edition of The Spin …
I think we get a lunchbreak now, which is time for me to move before my legs seize up. Will be back.
Lucy Higham joins London Spirit for £15,000
The first bid wins the prize.
Samantha Bates, Rebecca Tyson and Amanda-Jade Wellington and are unsold
The franchises tighten the purse-strings before lunch.
Hannah Baker moves to Sunrisers for £18,000
Now for Tier Two spinners. The price inches up from the opening bid of £15,000 and Sunrisers flash more cash than Trent Rockets.
Alice Davidson-Richards joins MI London for £30,000
Another tick for MI London.
Shree Charani is unsold.
No bids.
Nicola Carey joins MI London £95,000
Australia’s Carey, right hand bowler, left-hand batter, and who has just been selected for Australia’s white-ball tour of West Indies, is in demand, but MI (MY) London win the day. Carey has also played franchise-buddy Mumbai Indians.
Mady Villiers joins Manchester SuperGiants for £45,000
Villiers, a spinning allrounder and advocate for the climate, will spend her summer at Old Trafford.
Em Arlott joins Welsh Fire for £110,000
Paddles fly around the room for Arlott. Welsh Fire, who have shunned leisurewear for grey suit jackets, outbid MI London.
Grace Scivens joins the Supergiants for £40,000
Daniel Gidney stares at the table, but Scrivens is heading to Manchester. I’m surprised there isn’t more cheering when the teams get their girl.
Paige Scholfield joins Manchester Super Giants for £115,000
Quite the bidding war for Scholfield, who has Big Bash and England experience under her belt
Eve Jones and Sune Luus unsold
Anyone? Anyone?
Hollie Armitage joins MI London for £27,500
MI London outbid Manchester Super Giants.
Tier two batters are next under the hammer.
What’s left in the purse? MI London still have a £405,000 kitty to spend, Manchester Super Giants £382,000. Welsh Fire £300,000, Trent Rockets £270,000, London Spirit £202,500; Birmingham Phoenix £195,000, Sunrisers Leeds £175,000, and Southern Brave just £95,000.
During another quick break we go to Anya Shubsole. “It’s really exciting, I’d rather be my side of the table than the players. We’re really happy with where we’re at, I’m really excited to get Issy Wong, she’s one of the best bowlers in England on her day.
“Opening the bowling with Belly too, very exciting. And some world-class spinners. In terms of the top order and the bowling attack we’re pretty much there.”
Seren Smale joins London Spirit £15,000
A last minute bid at the base price by London Spirit snaps up Smale.
Yastika Bhatia and Georgia Redmayne unsold
Tumbleweed blows across the florescent-lit room.
Richa Ghosh joins Manchester Supergiants for £50,000
The opening bid wins it for Manchester elephants.
Lauren Winfield-Hill is unsold
No bids.
Now for the wicketkeeper-batters.
Kirstie Gordon joins MI London for £27,500
A capital arm-wrestle won by MI London.
Alana King joins Welsh Fire for £37,500
Wow. £105,000 for an uncapped teenager, and £37,500 for the world’s leading female ODI bowler.
Sophia Smale joins Welsh Fire for £20,000
Short and sweet for Sophia Smale, as Welsh Fire see off Sunrisers.
Tilly Corteen-Coleman joins Southern Brave for £105,000
A pinch-yourself moment for 18 year old left-arm spinner Corteen-Coleman, who took four wickets in four balls for South East Stars in the Charlotte Edwards Cup in 2024.
Linsey Smith joins Birmingham Phoenix for £100,000
Slow left armer Smith, who has thrived under Charlotte Edwards’ England regime, is picked up by Birmingham Phoenix after lots of football manager whispers behind hands.
Now for the spin bowlers. Alana King should open a few purses.
Deandra Dottin joins London Spirit for £37, 500
Just one bid for Dottin, who will be peppering the Lord’s boundary this summer.
Jess Jonassen joins Sunrisers Leeds for £110,000
Lots of intense staring at laptops, whispered exchanges, and Jess Jonassen becomes the first allrounder to pass the £100,000 barrier. London Spirit come in at £105,000, but Sunrisers win the day.
Georgia Adams is unsold
No interest at this stage, even from Southern Brave.
Chinelle Henry joins MI London for £70,000
The first West Indian player to be sold joins MI London. London Spirit hop into the bidding late and pushed the price up only to withdraw and leave Henry to move to The Oval.
Kathryn Bryce joins Manchester Super Giants for £65,000
It looks as if Bryce is going up north at the opening price but Welsh Fire’s interest pushes up the price.
Now for the allrounders.
Maitland Brown joins Supergiants for £40,000
Welsh Fire have a sniff, but Supergiants win Brown, a right-arm quick Australian.
