There’ll, nevertheless, be an overlap of expertise on the Hundred and MLC, with Rashid Khan (Trent Rockets), Finn Allen (Southern Courageous), Haris Rauf (Welsh Hearth), Adam Zampa and Spencer Johnson (each Oval Invincibles) all retained for this summer season regardless of their involvement within the US, and different names more likely to seem within the closing draft listing, which will probably be confirmed on Monday.
Within the girls’s competitors, the place the three highest pay bands have acquired a big enhance, there will probably be seven spots to fill within the prime £50,000 bracket. Jones, England’s first-choice wicketkeeper, was let go by Birmingham Phoenix, whereas the retirements of Katherine Sciver-Brunt and Anya Shrubsole have opened up areas at Rockets and Southern Courageous respectively.
Ellyse Perry, Sophie Devine (each Phoenix), Marizanne Kapp (Invincibles), Phoebe Litchfield (Superchargers), Hayley Matthews and Shabnim Ismail (each Hearth) are among the many abroad gamers who will probably be coming again.
In all, 137 gamers have been retained – males’s groups might retain as much as 10 gamers, girls’s groups eight – with 75 spots to be crammed through the draft on the March 20. Northern Superchargers, who completed final in 2023, can have the primary decide within the males’s draft, with Birmingham Phoenix beginning issues off within the girls’s.
Groups will every have one Proper-to-Match card at their disposal, permitting them to re-sign a participant who was of their squad final 12 months, so long as they match the wage band of the rival staff bidding within the draft.
The Hundred will get occurring July 23 with a double-header at The Oval and run for 4 weeks, with the finals to be held at Lord’s on August 18.
Retained gamers
Birmingham Phoenix Ladies: Sophie Devine, Ellyse Perry, Issy Wong, Emily Arlott, Hannah Baker, Sterre Kalis, Charis Pavely
Birmingham Phoenix Males: Chris Woakes, Liam Livingstone, Moeen Ali, Ben Duckett, Benny Howell, Adam Milne, Jamie Smith, Will Smeed, Tom Helm, Jacob Bethell
London Spirit Ladies: Heather Knight, Grace Harris, Danielle Gibson, Charlie Dean, Sarah Glenn, Georgia Redmayne, Sophie Munro, Tara Norris
London Spirit Males: Zak Crawley, Nathan Ellis, Dan Lawrence, Dan Worrall, Liam Dawson, Adam Rossington, Olly Stone, Matt Critchley, Daniel Bell-Drummond
Manchester Originals Ladies: Sophie Ecclestone, Laura Wolvaardt, Emma Lamb, Mahika Gaur, Fi Morris, Kathryn Bryce, Ellie Threlkeld, Liberty Heap
Manchester Originals Males: Jos Buttler, Jamie Overton, Phil Salt, Paul Walter, Tom Hartley, Usama Mir, Wayne Madsen, Josh Tongue, Max Holden, Fred Klaassen, Mitchell Stanley
Northern Superchargers Ladies: Phoebe Litchfield, Georgia Wareham, Kate Cross, Bess Heath, Linsey Smith, Alice Davidson-Richards, Hollie Armitage, Marie Kelly
Northern Superchargers Males: Ben Stokes, Adil Rashid, Harry Brook, Reece Topley, Matthew Quick, Brydon Carse, Adam Hose, Matthew Potts, Callum Parkinson, Ollie Robinson
Oval Invincibles Ladies: Marizanne Kapp, Alice Capsey, Lauren Winfield-Hill, Tash Farrant, Mady Villiers, Paige Schofield, Sophia Smale, Ryana MacDonald-Homosexual
Oval Invincibles Males: Sam Curran, Tom Curran, Will Jacks, Adam Zampa, Jordan Cox, Gus Atkinson, Sam Billings, Saqib Mahmood, Spencer Johnson, Nathan Sowter, Tawanda Muyeye
Southern Courageous Ladies: Danni Wyatt, Chloe Tryon, Lauren Bell, Maia Bouchier, Freya Kemp, Georgia Adams, Rhianna Southby, Mary Taylor
Southern Courageous Males: Jofra Archer, James Vince, Chris Jordan, Tymal Mills, Leus Du Plooy, Rehan Ahmed, Craig Overton, Finn Allen, George Garton, Alex Davies
Trent Rockets Ladies: Nat Sciver-Brunt, Alana King, Bryony Smith, Kirstie Gordon, Alexa Stonehouse, Grace Potts
Trent Rockets Males: Joe Root, Rashid Khan, Alex Hales, Lewis Gregory, Luke Wooden, John Turner, Sam Hain, Sam Cook dinner
Welsh Hearth Ladies: Hayley Matthews, Sophia Dunkley, Shabnim Ismail, Tammy Beaumont, Georgia Elwiss, Sarah Bryce, Freya Davies, Emily Windsor
Welsh Hearth Males: Jonny Bairstow, David Willey, Joe Clarke, Haris Rauf, Tom Abell, David Payne, Glenn Phillips, Luke Wells, Roelof Van der Merwe, Stephen Eskinazi, Chris Cook dinner