Ladies’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 group is at the moment in South Africa for the T20 World Cup, and Gardner was seen watching the public sale throughout a coaching session.
Gamers from India and Australia have been extremely wanted, with stylish Indian batter Smriti Mandhana receiving the very best bid of the public sale from Royal Challengers Bangalore for 3.4 crore, which is round $593,000.
Different Australian gamers to be offered have been Ellyse Perry, Meg Lanning, Tahlia McGrath, Beth Mooney and Annabel Sutherland.
Australians Megan Schutt, Alana King and Jess Jonassesn went surprisingly went unsold, as did New Zealand’s Suzie Bates and South Africa’s Laura Wolvaardt.
There will likely be 5 groups within the first ever ladies’s IPL, which is about to happen in March earlier than the boys’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)
