England Cricket Board has yet again come up with a new format and a new tournament called ‘The Hundred’.
As the name suggests, it will be a 100-ball competition, played among eight teams based in seven different cities (London has two teams). The tournament will take place in July-August 2020.
Unlike the IPL, ‘The Hundred’ is a draft rather than an auction. There will be no bidding wars, no ‘buying’ of players. In this format, teams will simply take turns to pick players. A random draw will decide who gets to pick first and the order that follows. Then, in the second round, the order of picks will be reserved.
Each team gets 100 seconds to make their pick. Salaries are pre-decided, and depend on how early a player is picked.
In the next season, each team gets to retain 10 players and will mutually agree the salary band with the those players.
The teams are as follows:
- Manchester Originals (Old Trafford)
- Trent Rockets (Trent Bridge)
- Southern Brave (Ageas Bowl)
- Northern Superchargers (Leeds)
- Welsh Fire (Cardiff)
- Oval Invincibles (The Oval)
- London Spirit (Lord's)
- Birmingham Phoenix (Edgbaston)
The Hundred’s draft will take place on Sunday, 20 October in London.
Here is a look at the full list of Player’s Draft for ‘The Hundred’ along with their base price.
£125,000
Chris Gayle (West Indies), Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka), Kagiso Rabada (South Africa), Steven Smith (Australia), Mitchell Starc (Australia), David Warner (Australia)
£100,000
Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh), Muhammad Amir (Pakistan), Trent Boult (New Zealand), Dwayne Bravo (West Indies), Quinton de Kock (South Africa), Faf du Plessis (South Africa), Aaron Finch (Australia), Tamim Iqbal (Bangladesh), Rashid Khan (Afghanistan), Sandeep Lamichhane (Nepal), Chris Lynn (Australia), Glenn Maxwell (Australia), Sunil Narine (West Indies), Kieron Pollard (West Indies), Andre Russell (West Indies), Shane Watson (Australia), Kane Williamson (New Zealand).
£75,000
Babar Azam (Pakistan), Temba Bavuma (South Africa), JP Duminy (South Africa), Muhammad Hafeez (Pakistan), Dimuth Karunaratne (Sri Lanka), Shadab Khan (Pakistan), Mitchell Marsh (Australia), David Miller (South Africa), Mohammad Nabi (Afghanistan), Kusal Perera (Sri Lanka), Nicholas Pooran (West Indies), Dale Steyn (South Africa), Marcus Stoinis (Australia).
£60,000
Shaheen Afridi (Pakistan), Shahid Afridi (Pakistan), Faheem Ashraf (Pakistan), Jason Behrendorff (Australia), Dan Christian (Australia), Martin Guptill (New Zealand), Usman Shinwari Khan (Pakistan), Shoaib Malik (Pakistan), Shaun Marsh (Australia), Chris Morris (South Africa), Mustafizur Rahman (Bangladesh), Wahab Riaz (Pakistan), Imran Tahir (South Africa), Mujeeb Ur Rahman (Afghanistan), Matthew Wade (Australia).
£50,000
Muhammad Abbas (Pakistan), Asghar Afghan (Afghanistan), Asif Ali (Pakistan), Nathan Coulter-Nile (Australia), Dhananjaya de Silva (Sri Lanka), Travis Head (Australia), Moises Henriques (Australia), Usman Khawaja (Australia), Evin Lewis (West Indies), Angelo Mathews (Sri Lanka), Colin Munro (New Zealand), James Neesham (New Zealand), James Pattinson (Australia), Mitch Santner (New Zealand), D’Arcy Short (Australia), Peter Siddle (Australia), Ish Sodhi (New Zealand), Ross Taylor (New Zealand), Lahiru Thirimanne (Sri Lanka), Andrew Tye (Australia), Isuru Udana (Sri Lanka), Imad Wasim (Pakistan).
£40,000
Fawad Ahmed (Australia), Umar Akmal (Pakistan), Hassan Ali (Pakistan), Corey Anderson (New Zealand), Mohammad Ashgar (Afghanistan), George Bailey (Australia), Carlos Brathwaite (West Indies), Alex Carey (Australia), Dinesh Chandimal (Sri Lanka), Johnson Charles (West Indies), Sheldon Cottrell (West Indies), Ben Cutting (Australia), Litton Das (Bangladesh), Colin de Grandhomme (New Zealand) Niroshan Dickwella (Sri Lanka), James Faulkner (Australia), Avishka Fernando (Sri Lanka), Danushka Gunathilaka (Sri Lanka), Shimron Hetmyer (West Indies), Jason Holder (West Indies), Imrul Kayes (Bangladesh), Michael Klinger (Australia), Suranga Lakmal (Sri Lanka), Nathan Lyon (Australia), Aiden Markram (South Africa), Kusal Mendis (Sri Lanka), Michael Neser (Australia), Jeetan Patel (New Zealand), Thisara Perera (Sri Lanka), Nuwan Pradeep (Sri Lanka), Mushfiqur Rahim (Bangladesh), Matthew Renshaw (Australia), Kane Richardson (Australia), Luke Ronchi (New Zealand), Waqar Salmakheil (Afghanistan), Daren Sammy (West Indies), Lakshan Sandakan (Sri Lanka), Dasun Shanaka (Sri Lanka), Lendl Simmons (West Indies), William Somerville (New Zealand), Tim Southee (New Zealand), Muhammad Hussain Talat (Pakistan), Jack Wildermuth (Australia), Fakhar Zaman (Pakistan), Adam Zampa (Australia).
Apart from the above mentioned players, there is a pool of players under the no reserved category, as far as their base price is concerned.
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