Women’s cricket has modified ceaselessly.
Australia’s Ashleigh Gardner has been purchased for greater than half 1,000,000 {dollars} on the inaugural ladies’s Indian Premier League public sale.
The versatile all-rounder is a prototypical T20 participant and was snapped up by the Gujara Giants for the eye-watering sum of $558,000.
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The Australian ladies’s staff is presently in South Africa for the T20 World Cup, and Gardner was seen watching the public sale throughout a coaching session.
Players from India and Australia had been extremely wanted, with stylish Indian batter Smriti Mandhana receiving the best bid of the public sale from Royal Challengers Bangalore for 3.4 crore, which is round $593,000.
Other Australian gamers to be offered had been Ellyse Perry, Meg Lanning, Tahlia McGrath, Beth Mooney and Annabel Sutherland.
New Zealand’s Suzie Bates and South Africa’s Laura Wolvardt surprisingly went unsold, as did Australian quick bowler Megan Schutt.
There will likely be 5 groups within the first ever ladies’s IPL, which is ready to happen in March earlier than the lads’s competitors.
Australian gamers offered at ladies’s IPL public sale (all costs AUD)
Ash Gardner – Gujarat Giants for 3.2 crore ($558,000)
Ellyse Perry – Royal Challengers Bangalore for 1.7 crore ($297,000)
Tahlia McGrath – UP Warriorz for 1.4 crore ($244,000)
Beth Mooney – Gujarat Giants for two.0 crore ($349,000)
Meg Lanning – Delhi Capitals for 1.1 crore ($192,000)
Annabel Sutherland – Delhi Capitals for 70 lakh ($122,000)Alyssa Healy – UP Warriorz for 70 lakh ($122,000)
Highest total bids
Smriti Mandhana – Royal Challengers Bangalore for 3.4 crore ($593,000)
Nat Sciver-Brunt – Mumbai Indians for 3.2 crore ($558,000)
Ash Gardner – Gujarat Giants for 3.2 crore ($558,000)
Deepti Sharma – UP Warriorz for two.6 crore ($454,000)
Jemimah Rodrigues – Delhi Capitals for two.2 crore ($384,000)
Originally revealed as Ash Garder’s eye-watering $558k payday in inaugural ladies’s IPL public sale
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
