UP Warriorz take ₹3.65 crore to the WPL auction, and no other team has more than ₹1.25 crore
There are 146 players in the pool for 27 places at the WPL 2027 auction in Kochi on 28 October, with Sophia Dunkley and Sophie Molineux at the top base price.
Oct 21, 2026
The WPL has named 146 players for its 2027 auction in Kochi on 28 October, and only 27 of them can get a contract. The list, released on 19 October, has 119 Indians and 27 overseas players. Twenty of the open places are for Indians and seven for overseas signings.
This is a small auction. The five franchises kept 63 players between them at the retention deadline on 28 September, 23 of them from overseas, so the bidding at the Grand Hyatt next Wednesday, which starts at 5:30pm IST, is about filling gaps rather than building teams.
UP Warriorz hold the money
One team has far more to spend than the rest. UP Warriorz go to Kochi with ₹3.65 crore and up to seven places to fill, two of them for overseas players. Gujarat Giants are next with ₹1.25 crore, then Royal Challengers Bengaluru on ₹1.15 crore, Delhi Capitals on ₹1.10 crore and Mumbai Indians on ₹1 crore.
The Warriorz let Amy Jones, Deandra Dottin and Chloe Tryon go at retention time and kept Meg Lanning, Phoebe Litchfield, Sophie Ecclestone and Deepti Sharma. Whoever they buy next week joins a side built around those four.
The tightest squeeze is at Mumbai. They also have up to seven slots, one of them overseas, and ₹1 crore to fill them. That is enough for a few players at the ₹10 lakh base price and very little else. Gujarat have the reverse problem: decent money for an auction this size, but only three places, and one overseas.
Dunkley and Molineux at the top of the list
Only two players have set their base price at the top bracket of ₹50 lakh, and both are overseas: England batter Sophia Dunkley and Australia allrounder Sophie Molineux. Four more sit at ₹40 lakh. Two are Indian, wicketkeeper-batter G Kamalini and batter Kiran Navgire, and two are Australian, Heather Graham and Jess Jonassen. Kamalini was released by Mumbai and Navgire by the Warriorz, and no other Indian in the pool has a higher base price.
Thirty players are in the ₹30 lakh bracket, four at ₹20 lakh and the other 106 at ₹10 lakh. The ₹30 lakh group is where most of the familiar names are. Sneh Rana is in it after Delhi let her go. So are Saika Ishaque, released by Mumbai, Titas Sadhu, released by Gujarat, and Asha Sobhana and Tryon from the Warriorz. Grace Harris, let go by Bengaluru, and Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu are in the same group.
Six from the Associate nations
Of the 27 overseas names, 14 are capped and 13 uncapped, and six come from Associate nations. Four are Scottish: Sarah Bryce, Kathryn Bryce, Darcey Carter and Kirstie Gordon. The Netherlands’ Babette de Leede and the UAE’s Esha Oza are the other two. With seven overseas places on offer and no team able to sign more than two, at least 20 of the 27 overseas players will leave Kochi without a deal.
On the Indian side, 22 of the 119 are capped and 97 are uncapped. Shweta Sehrawat, another of the Warriorz releases, is among the uncapped names at ₹10 lakh.
The 2027 season, the WPL’s fifth, runs from 14 January to 7 February.