After IPL, now an auction is going to be held for the next season of Women's Premier League. This time there is a mini auction for the Women's Premier League, which will last for one day only. This auction is going to be held today i.e. on 15th December in Bengaluru. Which will start at 3 pm Indian time. This time 120 players have been shortlisted for the auction. Let us tell you, 5 teams play in WPL and each team can have 18 players including six foreign players. In such a situation, all the teams will be seen competing against each other for many star players to strengthen their squad.

Bidding will be done on 120 players for 19 slots.

This time, out of 120 players shortlisted for the auction, 91 are Indian and 29 are foreign cricketers, including 3 from associate countries. At the same time, there are 82 Indian uncapped players and 8 uncapped foreign players in this list. On the other hand, only a maximum of 19 players will be lucky in the auction, because now only 19 slots are vacant including 5 teams. Out of which 5 slots belong to foreign players.

All teams have their eyes on these players

Among the 29 foreign players, all the teams are going to keep an eye on England captain Heather Knight, West Indies all-rounder Diandra Dottin and South Africa's Lizelle Lee. The base price of these players is Rs 50 lakh which is the highest. At the same time, England's Lauren Bell and Maia Bouchier, Australia's Darcy Brown and Lauren Cheatle, and South Africa's Nadine de Klerk are also part of the auction, which will go with a base price of 30 years.

On the other hand, India's Sneh Rana, Poonam Yadav, Shubha Satish, Mansi Joshi and Tejal Hasbnis are also going to be seen in the auction. The base price of all these players is Rs 30 per year. Apart from these, some young players of India will also enter the auction, in which the name of 13 year old left arm fast bowler Anshu Nagar is the most discussed. She had performed well in the Women's Delhi Premier League three months ago. Apart from these, 16 year old G. Kamalini is also included in this list.

How big purse with which team?

This time the purse of all the teams is Rs 15 crore, which was Rs 13.5 crore last year. All the teams had spent a large part of their purse during retention itself. In such a situation, now all the teams will enter the auction with different purses. Gujarat Giants team will enter the auction with the highest purse of Rs 4.40 crore. UP Warriors team also has Rs 3.90 crore in its purse. At the same time, last season's champion Royal Challengers Bangalore now has Rs 3.25 crore left in its purse. On the other hand, Mumbai Indians now have Rs 2.65 crore left in their purse. But Delhi now has only Rs 2.5 crore left.

Whereas, if we talk about slots, there are 3 slot players in the UP Warriors team and RCB cannot buy any foreign player. Apart from this, the remaining 3 teams have 4-4 slot players. Among these, Gujarat Giants is the only team which can buy 2 foreign players in the auction. Apart from this, all the teams have 1-1 vacant slots for foreign players.