England wicketkeeper Amy Jones was the primary choose in The Hundred 2024 draft and can be a part of Birmingham Phoenix whereas Northern Superchargers head coach Freddie Flintoff’s first selection was West Indies batter Nicholas Pooran.
England’s Ollie Pope was picked up by London Spirit with the ladies’s aspect choosing former Australian captain Meg Lanning.
West Indies’ Andre Russell may also head Lord’s after London Spirit picked him, with worldwide team-mate Kieron Pollard becoming a member of Southern Courageous.
Birmingham Phoenix added quick bowler Naseem Shah to their line-up. He turns into the primary Pakistani participant to be picked on the high wage bracket of £125,000 while his colleague Shaheen Shah Afridi was reappointed by Welsh Hearth.
Defending champions Oval Invincibles elected England’s Dawid Malan to be of their squad the place he’ll be joined by Somerset’s Tom Lammonby.
Sri Lanka T20 captain Chamari Athapaththu was picked up by Oval Invincibles and India’s Smriti Mandhana will be a part of reigning champions Southern Courageous.
Australian pair Annabel Sutherland and Jess Jonassen have been additionally within the girls’s first choose with the previous heading to 2023 runners-up Northern Superchargers and the latter becoming a member of Welsh Hearth.
Australia’s Beth Mooney was drafted by Manchester Originals whereas all-rounder Ash Gardner was chosen by Trent Rockets for the ultimate girls’s first choose.
Australian dominance in The Hundred continued with spinner Sophie Molineux being chosen by Manchester Originals.
England Underneath-19s captain Grace Scrivens heads to Trent Rockets whereas quick bowler Lauren Filer, who made her T20 debut for England on Tuesday, was picked up by Manchester Originals alongside bowler Phoebe Graham, with Eve Jones on the high of the batting order.
Australia’s David Warner, Pakistan’s Babar Azam, England’s Jason Roy and India girls’s captain Harmanpreet Kaur are among the many large names that didn’t get picked within the Draft.
Nevertheless, there may be nonetheless an opportunity these names may characteristic in The Hundred. If a participant drops out of the match then the crew is ready to elect one other participant in the identical bracket.
Every of the 68 video games – 34 males and 34 girls – will likely be reside on Sky Sports activities, whereas all girls’s matches and various males’s fixtures will likely be streamed reside on the Sky Cricket YouTube channel.
Dean: The expertise in The Hundred is tremendous thrilling
“A couple of the girls woke up early to watch and I think Amy [Jones] was a little surprised being the first pick heading back to Birmingham Phoenix but I think she is super stoked about it, it’s really exciting,” England’s bowler Charlie Dean mentioned chatting with Sky Sports activities from their tour of New Zealand.
“At London Spirit we’ve got Meg Lanning who is a hugely experienced player and someone really valuable to have in our side. I’m looking forward to picking her brains a little bit.
“Lauren [Filer] put herself on the market and determined to go within the Draft and it was the perfect factor for her. She’s such a commodity as a fast quick bowler and is tremendous thrilling. She deserves each alternative that she will get.
“Grace Scrivens going for £40,000 was probably something people wouldn’t have expected but she’s such a valuable player to have in the side and she deserves that.
“That is a testomony to the place girls’s cricket is getting worldwide. We’re not simply taking a look at worldwide gamers, we’re taking a look at everybody and if the depth of expertise is getting higher then there is just one method girls’s cricket can go.”
Women’s Draft squad list
Birmingham Phoenix Girls’s: Amy Jones, Richa Ghosh, Katie Levick, Seren Smale, Ailsa Lister, Chloe Brewer
London Spirit Girls’s: Meg Lanning, Cordelia George, Eva Gray, Hannah Jones, Niamh Holland
Manchester Authentic Girls’s: Beth Mooney, Sophie Molineux, Lauren Filer, Eve Jones, Phoebe Graham
Northern Superchargers Girls’s: Annabel Sutherland, Grace Ballinger, Lucy Higham, Ella Claridge, Devina Perrin
Oval Invincibles Girls’s: Chamari Athapaththu, Amanda-Jade Wellington, Jo Gardner, Lizzie Scott, Georgie Boyce
Southern Courageous Girls’s: Smriti Mandhana, Naomi Dettarni, Lauren Cheatle, Kalea Moore, Tilly Corteen-Coleman
Trent Rockets Girls’s: Ashleigh Gardner, Grace Scrivens, Heather Graham, Katie George, Josie Groves, Kira Chathli, Cassidy McCarthy
Welsh Hearth Girls’s: Jess Jonassen, Phoebe Franklin, Ella McCaughan, Claire Nicholas, Alex Griffiths
Males’s Draft squad listing
Birmingham Phoenix Males’s: Naseem Shah, Sean Abbott, James Fuller, Daniel Mousley
London Spirit Males’s: Andre Russell, Shimron Heymyer, Richard Gleeson, Ollie Pope, Michael Pepper
Manchester Authentic Males’s: Sikandar Raza, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Josh Hull
Northern Superchargers Males’s: Nicholas Pooran, Daniel Sams, Tom Lawes, Graham Clark
Oval Invincibles Males’s: Dawid Malan, Donovan Ferreira, Tom Lammonby
Southern Courageous Males’s: Kieron Pollard, Laurie Evans, Akeal Hosein, Danny Briggs
Trent Rockets Males’s: Rovman Powell, Imad Wasim, Tom Banton, Calvin Harrison, Jordan Thompson, Adam Lyth
Welsh Hearth Males’s: Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Shaheen Afridi, Jake Ball
Try the complete listing of males’s and girls’s squads for the 2024 season of The Hundred right here.
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