NEW DELHI: Star Indian batters Smriti Mandhana and Richa Ghosh have emerged as the one two Indian gamers chosen within the Hundred 2024 draft for the upcoming season, with Mandhana becoming a member of the Southern Courageous and Ghosh being roped in by the Birmingham Phoenix for the Girls’s Hundred 2024.The draft noticed English cricketer Amy Jones securing the highest choose as she joined the Birmingham Phoenix, following her failure to conform to a retention final month. In the meantime, star Sri Lankan all-rounder Chamari Athapaththu was picked by the Invincibles.The choice by the England Cricket Board (ECB) to extend prime salaries within the girls’s Hundred attracted quite a few overseas cricketers to the event. Notable signings included Beth Mooney by Manchester Originals, Meg Lanning by London Spirit, and Ash Gardner by the Trent Rockets, all securing contracts value 50,000 euros.Within the males’s draft, the absence of star English batter Jason Roy was a notable growth. Roy, launched by the Oval Invincibles after a lackluster efficiency within the earlier season, went unselected, together with English pacer Mark Wooden, who withdrew resulting from harm issues for the primary three seasons of the Hundred.Nevertheless, West Indies star batters dominated the boys’s draft, with Nicholas Pooran becoming a member of Northern Superchargers, Andre Russell and Shimron Hetmyer signing up with London Spirit, and Kieron Pollard donning the Southern Courageous’s jersey. The Trent Rockets picked Rovman Powell for the upcoming season.Star Pakistan pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi is ready to play for the Welsh Fireplace, following his reacquisition final summer season, whereas his teammate Naseem Shah was the highest choose for the Birmingham Phoenix.Following the conclusion of the draft, every staff may have the chance so as to add two extra gamers to each their males’s and girls’s squads forward of the season beginning in July, providing ‘wildcard’ contracts primarily based on performances in home T20 cricket, as reported by ESPNcricinfo.(With inputs from ANI)
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