Harmanpreet joins Mandhana, Deepti, Jemimah and Shreyanka among Indians in The Hundred Women’s Competition draft

The Hundred is a 100-ball cricket tournament involving eight teams based in England and Wales. 15 Indian women have registered themselves for the draft.

Smriti Mandhana in action in the WPL 2024 for RCB | Photo Credit: MURALI KUMAR K/ The Hindu

Harmanpreet Kaur is among the new additions to The Hundred Women’s 2024 Draft list, with a reserve price of 50,000 pounds.

In the recently concluded WPL 2024, the Mumbai Indians skipper had a decent outing, and although her team couldn’t qualify for the final, Harmanpreet’s best came against Gujarat, where she smashed a brilliant unbeaten 95 and helped Mumbai pull off a brilliant run chase.

Earlier, Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues and Shreyanka Patil were among the Indians in the draft list that is set to take place on March 20.

The Hundred is a 100-ball cricket tournament involving eight teams based in England and Wales. 15 Indian women have registered themselves for the draft.

Overall, 127 international cricketers and 122 domestic players have registered their names and each team has to pick a squad of a minimum of 13 players.

Mandhana, played for the Southern Brave last season whereas Jemimah was part of the Northern Superchargers. Both Deepti and Richa Ghosh were playing for London Spirit last year.

Mandhana, Rodrigues, Deepti, Shreyanka, Richa and Renuka have a reserve price in the drafts. On the other hand, Kiran Navgire, Mona Meshram, Veda Krishnamurthy, Shikha Pandey, Sneh Rana, Meghna Singh, Radha Yadav, Meghana Sabbineni and Yastika Bhatia have no reserve prices.

This will be the Fourth edition of the The Hundred Women’s competition which is set to begin on July 23, 2024, and the first game will be between Oval Invincibles and Birmingham Phoenix.