Women’s Premier League: The next season of the Women’s Premier League organized by BCCI will be played from January 14 to February 7 in the year 2027, the schedule of which will be announced soon. On October 28, a player auction was organized by BCCI in Kochi for the upcoming fifth season in which a total of 150 players were included and a total of 27 slots were vacant across all the teams. After the end of the auction, a total of 25 players became part of different teams and in this, UP Warriors included the maximum players in their team, who had a total of 8 slots vacant. This time, the most expensive player in the mini auction was Australia’s Sophie Molyneux, who was bought by UP Warriors for Rs 1 crore 10 lakh from her base price of Rs 50 lakh.
Apart from Sophie, UP Warriors also included Sneh Rana and Grace Harris as their part.
In the player auction of Women’s Premier League 2027, UP Warriors made Sophie Molyneux their share for Rs 1.10 crore, while Sneh Rana managed to get Rs 30 lakh. Grace Harris and Katherine Bryce will also be a part of UP Warriors in the next WPL season. This time UP Warriors had retained only 10 players before the auction, in which they had a total of 8 slots vacant and managed to fill all of them.
Final squad of all teams for WPL 2027
UP Warriors – Deepti Sharma, Harleen Deol, Kranti Gaur, Manali Dakshin, Sahana Pawar, Asha Sobhana, Pratika Rawal, Shikha Pandey, Shipra Giri, Simran Shaikh, Sneh Rana, Sushma Verma, Grace Harris, Katherine Bryce, Meg Lanning, Phoebe Litchfield, Sophie Ecclestone, Tara Norris, Sophie Molineux.
Gujarat Giants – Anushka Sharma, Ashley Gardner, Beth Mooney, Bharti Fulmali, Georgia Wareham, Happy Kumari, Jintimani Kalita, Kanika Ahuja, Kashvi Gautam, Kim Garth, Rajeshwari Gaikwad, Renuka Singh, Sophie Devine, Tanuja Kanwar, Yastika Bhatia, G Kamalini, Orla Prendergast, Samaira Raghav.
Delhi Capitals – Annabel Sutherland, Chinelle Henry, Dia Yadav, Jemimah Rodriguez, Laura Wolvaardt, Lucy Hamilton, Mamta Madiwala, Marizanne Kapp, Minnu Mani, N Sri Charnani, Nandini Sharma, Nikki Prasad, Shafali Verma, Kiran Navgire, Kirsty Gordon, Uma Kashvi, Kirsty Gordon, Nazma Khan.
Mumbai Indians – Amanjot Kaur, Amelia Kerr, Harmanpreet Kaur, Hayley Matthews, Natalie Sciver Brunt, Nicola Carey, Rahila Firdous, Sajeevan Sajna, Sanskriti Gupta, Shabnim Ismail, Vaishnavi Sharma, Sanika Chalke, Shweta Sehrawat, Akshita Bhagat.
Royal Challengers Bangalore – Arundhati Reddy, Ellyse Perry, Georgia Woll, Lauren Bell, Nadine de Klerk, Pooja Vastrakar, Prathyosha Kumar, Prema Rawat, Radha Yadav, Richa Ghosh, Sayali Satghare, Shreyanka Patil, Smriti Mandhana, Jess Jonassen, Tejal Hassebnis, Vrinda Dinesh, Chloe Tryon.