The Hundred Auction Review: New teams, big money and history made!

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Well, the first ever 100 auction has come to a close here in London.

Bit of history for British sport and a lot of money has been spent.

That is for sure.

Tasha, NASA alongside me.

Let's just give you some headline numbers, though.

The women's auction was yesterday.

North of 6.6 million pounds spent on salaries.

Today it was the men's turn.

North of 15.6 million pounds have been spent.

NASA and I did the original draft for the 100.

This had a very different feel and very different numbers associated with it.

Yeah, huge numbers and some life-changing numbers for certain individuals as well in the last couple of days.

And with those numbers comes the quality.

If you look at the men's squads behind our shoulders, but also the women's squads yesterday,

some real quality throughout.

I'm not saying they weren't there originally when this tournament first started,

but now you're looking at sort of season franchise, overseas and domestic players.

It's felt weird the last couple of days.

It's been a bit sort of fantasy football-ish and a bit bargain-uncombining

and seeing what you're left with.

It's been very interesting and you've got some quality sides.

It's also I have to say, been very confusing because you've got new sides, new branding of teams.

And so it's been taking a bit of time just to get your head round.

Who plays for, who coaches, who hopefully that will come with time.

We'll come back to that in just a second because we are sitting at the Mumbai Indians London table.

Of course, we're the over-inventibles.

So we'll come back to NASA's point in a minute.

I was watching on the television yesterday.

You were here yesterday and today.

What's your override and experience of what you've witnessed over the last 48 hours?

Well, I just think the whole thing has been surreal, hasn't it?

The amount of money and obviously it's yesterday in the women's game.

If you said to me even a couple of years ago, over 6.6 million pounds would be spent on 100 players of the women in particular.

You wouldn't really be able to get your head round it.

And it's been quite nice. We've sort of been on a balcony.

So we've been sort of looking at the teams from above.

And what's been really nice is just almost just seeing how the strategy on the tables work.

Who sits next to who?

You know, how quickly you have to think on your feet as the teams.

And it's just been really surreal.

And I just can't quite believe it.

And there'll be players out there that have had life changing amounts of money.

And they must be sitting in their homes when I'm thinking,

I can't believe what's just happened.

Let's go about the brand identity though.

And the identity and the affiliation with the teams.

ECB spoke about tribalism and all that sort of stuff.

We've been to so many hundred games where kids are coming through with over-inventible shirts,

London spirit shirts, whatever.

This is now M.I. London.

We watched something on the telly up there in a break.

Of it was Sam Billings leading that side.

And we knew their identity.

We knew the style of play.

A lot of the players had a great affiliation with the oval.

That has to start again.

That is a problem.

It's gone.

And to be honest, in the last few years at a hundred,

it's only been one or two sides.

I think the Northern Supercharges did it, especially with the women.

And that's why they ended up being successful.

And the oval invincible is definitely you turned up.

And you saw that connection between the fans and the players.

Because a lot of their players at the oval did come through that system and played there.

So I think that's been ripped up.

Let's be honest.

Look at those names.

If I asked you to name now, the Manchester Super Giants team,

you'd have to turn around and have a little look.

Aiden Mark.

That's gone.

So we've talked about the money here.

And it's funny because sport is about money.

What is the best product, in my opinion,

from British sport at the moment is the Premier League football.

So that is about money.

But it's more than money as well sport.

It's that affiliation, that bonding, that history between a fan and that club.

And I think that's what eventually the hundred.

The IPL has done that, but it's been going on for a very long time.

And there's an affiliation with individuals as well.

RCB with Virat Kohli.

I think the thing you mentioned there, there is more affiliation with a team.

That Mumbai Indian kid now, or M.I. London kid,

will rock up and want to support the team.

He or she may not know who's actually playing on that day.

And that may come with time.

What about the actual setup of this auction?

They've gone from a draft to an auction.

I was speaking with Tom Moody just before he Brown acts.

It's too cold.

Him and Justin Lager just arrived from Perth,

where it's 39 degrees.

You said he had a very important role to play yesterday

because he was on the table when the women were being selected.

Why? What sort of input would he have helped in that instance?

Well, look, it's the first auction in this country.

And then also on the women's side, you know,

there's only the WPR that would have been a couple of auctions so far.

For a team to have someone like Tom Moody who has been there,

he's done it all around the world and he's been involved in so many auctions.

You can actually see their table just work really coherently.

You can tell that he was sort of in charge making the final decision.

So that was interesting yesterday to see, you know,

the teams with WPL affiliations, how they worked.

And, you know, teams like Trent Rockets and Welsh Fire,

you just felt that maybe the whole thing was very new for them.

And you could kind of see potentially in their strategy.

It took them a bit of time to get going.

And then they almost had too much money left at the end for the last round.

So that was interesting.

So people like Tom Moody is really key for this women's 100 to go forward in the auctions

because he's been there and done it all around the world.

Well, as I mentioned,

over 6.6 million pounds were spent yesterday in the women's auction.

As Tash said, life-changing sums of money.

And there was one amazing story.

Yes, they're young, Tilly Courteen Coleman.

She was 18 and Southern Brave paid over 100,000 pounds for her.

And she spoke yesterday excitedly to Alex Hartley.

Right, I've got Tilly Courteen Coleman.

Tilly, you've got a huge smile on your face.

And rightly so, you've gone back to the Southern Brave for 105,000 pounds.

How do you feel?

Honestly, I don't think I can put it into words.

I actually just couldn't believe it.

I was not expecting that whatsoever.

And I loved my climate brave, so being back there, I'm absolutely buzzing.

It must feel so good knowing that they wanted you so badly.

Yeah, it does have to be fair.

Obviously, I had some comms before, the auction, like a few weeks before.

And obviously, anything can happen.

Although I kind of took my word for it, I was still very nervous.

So yeah, for them to keep going after me, I couldn't believe it.

And I'm so grateful.

At what point during the auction?

Did you said you were watching it with a couple of your teammates?

Did you turn around your teammates and go, this is wild?

I think from the first bit, to be honest with you.

I just couldn't believe that I'd even been on me to begin with.

And yeah, I think once I got to around 50k, I think that's how dad started filming.

And I was really, really jumping up and down on the bed.

Because I'm admitting that I'm loud, but it was no good.

How much has your phone blown up since?

Well, I was on my phone because I wanted to phone my parents, because obviously I'm in Victoria.

But then when I went on my iPad to join the call, it's had 318 messages.

So quite a lot.

You said you'd had some coms with the brave before the auction started.

Was there word just that they wanted you and they were going to fit to, I guess, secure you?

It was more discussions about kind of what I should enter myself in it.

And obviously, cards mentioned the fact that they were keen to get me back.

But like I say, anything can happen.

And you don't know what's going to happen on the day.

So when it actually happened, I just lost the words.

How does it feel being the most expensive left arm spinner in this competition so far?

Am I?

Yeah.

But I got it wrong way.

No, that's not.

Amazing.

I didn't even know that.

Honestly, I'm on cloud nine, sorry.

That is crazy.

Yeah, amazing.

How important has the hundred been for your career?

You're obviously just said you're on tour with England now over in South Africa.

How much do you put your success down to playing on the stage at the hundred?

Huge need to be honest.

I'd say first year of the hundred.

I put myself in on a bit of a win to be honest.

I wasn't really planning to.

And then one of my sorry teammates mentioned while I was on preseason tour.

Before I even had a contract that I should enter myself in.

And then obviously, lot of you picked me up.

And I think my career just kind of took off from there.

Yeah, I then quickly got a sorry contract in there.

Sorry, as a Southeast style contract.

Play as you play.

And then, yeah, kind of from there.

Been there.

So, yeah, hugely important.

Well, no wonder she was delighted.

A hundred and five thousand pounds should be paid for this summer's hundred.

Delight, so Ravi Vipara has joined herself.

Nass and Tash.

Now, you've been involved in these.

What's it like as a coach when you're trying to fill in the names of an auction?

What's it like as a player when you're waiting to try and find a spot on the side?

It must be emotionally like that.

Very emotional, especially when you've got owners sitting on the table as well.

Because they've got their eyes set on certain guys that they want in their team.

That's the guy I want, that's the guy I want.

I want to put my hand up.

So, you need to talk to the owners first.

Look, we've planned this over the last month, a couple of months.

These are the guys we really want to go for.

These are the budgets that we want to go up to.

But I find that auctions never really go to plan.

You might have planned for about three or four weeks that we're going to have a strong batting line up.

And these will be our bowlers.

And all of a sudden, you get outbited on those batters.

And you have to switch now.

And go, okay, maybe we may need to go with a strong bowling line.

I'm going to spend our budget there.

So, things can change so quickly in an auction.

But on the player side of things, it's quite exciting.

It does depend where you come out in the auction.

If you come out a bit later when the budget's are depleted and you think,

I don't get much money, but when you come up front and you're one of the marquee players,

very exciting to know how much you're going to get,

is it going to be life-changing?

So, all those things.

I mean, you've had more clubs than Tiger Woods.

So, what's been your biggest earner?

I've held.

What club?

Who have you played for?

I've been a job.

Did you?

A couple of times remember the exact figure.

Yeah.

It was a peanuts compared to what they're paying now.

475.

It was there a couple of years at their IPO.

And there was people sunrises as well.

Had a little stint with the sunrises.

Not quite as much as the first couple of years.

It's worth, mate.

We're going to talk about the women's side of the 100 for the next 10 or so minutes.

Again, going about that first draft on that first year.

15,000 pounds was the top.

Now, 105,000 for young Tilly.

210 for the likes of Sophie Devine.

Extraordinary.

It is.

I think that's what has happened with the auction.

It's sort of elongated from bottom to top.

Whereas when the draft was there, they were all a bit more closely packed.

And I think that's why your question to Ravi is quite a good one.

It's not just what happens on the day.

It's what happens after.

Because there will be some players now like Tilly, like Danny Gibson.

Players like that will suddenly be like, wow, the focus of attention is on me.

I've got a deliver.

The pressure is on.

There will be a bit of jealousy out there as well.

Why?

Why so much money?

Why not me?

And you've got overseas players like Deep Tishama going at a fraction of the price.

So it does just alter the dynamic of your career a little bit.

And that's where coaching comes into it as well.

A coach will have to put some of these big name, big money players to one side.

And sort of build them up.

But also say, this is why we're paying the money for you.

We really value you.

So it is a dynamic of your life that changes in the dressing room and out of the dressing room.

It's a good point because again, we keep talking about the headline numbers.

But let's just drop it down.

So you've got Sophie Devine, Beth Mooney, the Australian Australian 210.

Danny Gibson gets 190, which is extraordinary.

We're touching her in a minute.

But then as Nassad, you've got Deep T, one of the biggest names in the game,

getting 27 and a half grand.

A Lana King only went for 37 and a half.

So that disparaging is something that does need to be managed somehow.

Yeah, it does.

And actually, you've seen a couple of domestic, well, quite a few domestic players,

actually, who have earned less than they were last year because, obviously,

the big stars have gone for way more money.

And actually, by the time it got round to the sort of second band of players,

those domestic players, people like Briannie Smith and Emma Lamb,

they're actually earning pretty much half of what they earned last year.

So as Nass said, the auction actually does just open things up a lot.

But I guess that's just your market value, isn't it?

And it's not as a player, I guess, you would have to be in a position to sort of make sure

that you just perform as well, because you can go for all the money in the world in the auction.

But actually, you're only going to get kept at that team if you do well as well.

So just something to keep an eye on.

And just the disparity has gone a little bit bigger in that women's side.

Let's have a look down some of the teams.

We can start with the Birmingham Phoenix, who directly signed or pre-signed four players.

Capsi, Lauren Filer, Lucy Hamilton on a direct signing, and Elise Perry.

So the first pick yesterday was Davina Perrin, came out at 50 grand.

I'm wondering if she could have gone into the pre auction and got a bit more.

Well, she probably could have.

And I think we were all expecting Davina Perrin, obviously, a hundred in the eliminator

in the last year of the hundred for her to go for actually a little bit more money.

But because she came out first and you almost saw the first four picks,

the teams were quite tentative to get going.

And the auction didn't really get going until Danny Gibson came out last.

So someone like Davina Perrin, she put herself out there going into the auction.

Obviously, coming off the back of a brilliant hundred last year.

And she probably would have felt that she would have gone for a little bit more money.

But I mean, 50K, she's going to be batting at the top with Tammy Bowman,

so she's got a nice opening partnership there.

And then also getting to play under Elise Perry, who's going to kept in the side as well.

That's also one of the nuances of the auction, isn't it?

As Ravi said, it's where you come out as well.

What do you see in that lineup with the Birmingham Fin?

It's what stands up for you.

I mean, the two openers, Perrin and Bowman, she got the experience.

And you've got the new kid on the block.

You've got a Lana King, Lindsay Smith as well.

So there's two qualities.

I think Lindsay Smith is a top, top signing there.

Got a lot of experience.

I think Annery Dougson that came out last.

I think that's 15,000.

I think that's a really good value bit.

When you look at these things, it's about the value of the player.

They've got an absolute steal there.

That's a good mix.

Cordelia Griffith, I like her.

I've always liked her as a criggaer.

So they've got a good mix in there.

Going back to Davina Perrin.

I think at her stage of the career, it's very easy for me to say this.

At her stage, it is not so much just about the headline figure.

It is about who she's playing with, Elise Perry, where she playing as well.

What's that pitch like?

I think sometimes, you know, Ravi will tell you, back in the lords or something.

I look today, Joe Rue.

When Joe Rue came up, was he the first one out?

I think he was.

Very first.

And there was a bid between headingly, Leeds, and Welsh Fire Cardiff.

And if I'm Joe Rue, and you don't have a say to you as a player,

as a batter, I want to be playing on that flat pitch at Leeds,

whereas playing at Cardiff where it can be a bit tricky or whatever,

just makes it a little bit harder.

So it's a different dynamic from when we played as county players.

We would have that in the back of our mind.

I'm not going to go there, that's a dodgy pitch.

I will go back at the oval, that's a top pitch,

whereas now you just go where you're told.

And I think Davina going to Edge Baston, which is a very good pitch,

having the likes of Elise Perry there, having Tammy Beaumont,

who's been there, done it at the other end, as an opening combination.

I think that's more important than the 50 grand headline figure.

On a broader point, building a team.

Now, I've got the Birmingham Phoenix women's team

and the Birmingham Phoenix men's team in front of me.

That's right, that's on paper.

But what about building a team when you've got so little time together,

these guys and girls will turn up five minutes before it starts,

and you're into it?

Well, you could try getting together before that, ideally.

I mean, there's going to be a lot of county cricket going on,

there's going to be the domestic 220s going on.

So it is difficult to get them all together,

but if you can get the older season nice and early

and get them practicing in England and get them together,

that's the best you can do.

On the positive side, a lot of these players know each other anyway

from playing other franchise cricket.

So it does, you know, you do kind of go into a dressing room

knowing each other to a certain extent.

And when you're playing on the big stage,

you just want to get your job done.

You remember, you are playing for your reputation,

so you want to do the best you can.

The most important thing you can do is do your job

as the best you can do at your ability.

We're going to move on to the London spirit women's sign

and the pre selections were Charlie Dean,

Mahika Gore, Grace Harris, the Australian and Marazan Cap.

Now, Marazan Cap has gone across the Thames, the London spirit.

Now, we were talking earlier about affiliations with the Oval,

which is now my London.

She was part of the furniture at the Oval.

She's now got to go across to the Thames.

As a player, do you have to just completely ignore that?

This is my new franchise team, teammates, coach, whatever,

get on with it.

Absolutely.

In franchise cricket, yes, slightly different

if you've been a county, for example, for 10 years,

and then you have to suddenly move to another county,

that's slightly different.

That can become emotional.

But I think in franchise cricket, there's no real loyalty.

When it really comes down to it, it's a business at the end of the day.

And that's a little bit how the players have to treat it to some extent.

It is a business that got short careers,

whoever's going to pay the money for those players,

you go there and you perform and you do a job.

What sort of bases have London spirit women got covered?

Would you stay there?

What are their challenges?

Well, I think their seam attack is brilliant,

which actually suits, obviously, the Lord's pitch as well.

We've seen it swing around.

Obviously, you said Marazancat, Mahika Gore.

She was a brilliant signing for them.

You can sort of see Mahika Gore coming in from the pavilion end

and Marazancat from the other.

And then I think their biggest signing from yesterday was Nadine Declurk.

She's had a brilliant World Cup.

She's also had a brilliant WPL as well.

I think they got her for 170k.

So I think they look slightly stronger in the seam department,

obviously, Charlie Dean.

She's probably going to captain the side.

So I think they've got some good youngsters,

and then Grace Harris, they've got the firepower.

So I think they look pretty balanced,

and I would just say their seam attack looks the most strong in that side.

What are you looking at with Manchester here?

So you've got Sophie Eccleston, Meg Laning,

and Smitty Manderder as the direct signings.

Paige Schcofield had a nice pay day 115k.

What about the balance of their side?

Given the pitches at Old Trafford as well.

Yeah, I think they've got a good combination there.

If you talk about domestic cricket,

you then talk Paige Schcofield.

You talk Rihanna McDonald Gay, Catherine Bryce.

You know, Maddie Villiers has been around for a while now.

And then their overseas are superstars in Meg Laning,

Manderner. Richard Gosh, I thought that was a stiff 50 grand.

50 grand, I'm going double that at least,

because what were you on in the women's game?

And there's more of them now,

are people who hit boundaries.

You clear the boundaries, are six hitters.

And she is definitely that.

So that looks like a good combination.

Obviously you've got Sophie Eccleston,

whose world class.

You've got a good combination of international players,

but domestic quality, real quality domestic players there as well.

Okay.

M.I. London Women.

You were here obviously yesterday.

Their direct signings were at Mealy Curr, Kiwi.

A Hayley Matthews.

Fantastic.

And Danny Whitehall just come up from the South Coast.

I know she's been in and around Surrey.

But what do you see when you see that side?

Well, I think, I think they've got a lot of all rounders in their side.

It was interesting, yes, they actually.

Lisa Kightley.

She brought, she was obviously Northern Supercharges coach last year,

that won.

And Holly Armitage, she said to me,

yes, they is one of the best captains that she's ever seen.

She's brought Holly Armitage into her side at My London.

So I think she's going to be the captain of the side.

And I think they've just got really good all rounders.

They've got Nick Carey, who has come from Mumbai Indians as well.

They've got Chanel Henry, the big hitter.

So I think they look really well-rounded side with a lot of all rounders.

Tara Norris is a weird one.

She just seems to bowl in the power play.

I think last season she hardly bowled out the power play.

Can we stop before we go on to the other sides?

You mentioned Lisa Kightley there.

It's been written a couple of papers today.

But it was a very male dominated room yesterday.

And she is the only senior full-on female coach in that team.

How much of a problem do you see that?

And should there be others?

And what names would you throw out there?

I think then you want there to be others in the future.

But you don't want to rush female coaches or staff members almost before they're ready.

They need to make sure that they've got the experience.

And obviously, because of the way that cricket is,

there's been a lot more auctions and franchise cricket in the men's game.

So there's going to be a lot more male domination in sort of a room like this.

But obviously you want more people like head coaches like Lisa Kightley, Charlotte Edwards.

It was great to see Sarah Taylor here yesterday and also today on the men's table.

She's obviously worked across men's game and the women's game.

So I think you want more women involved,

but you also don't want to fast track them too much.

Because you want to make sure that the people you have in your teams have the experience

and just getting the balance right of obviously getting more females involved

but also the ones that have the experience to sort of move up to the next level.

How much does home advantage play a thing in the 100?

We've seen the Trent Rockets try and sort of scuff pitches up a little bit

which they did at the start of the 100 and then the ECB came down quite harsh on there

to make them a bit flatter.

Do you think they'll have more now that it's not ECB run, it's franchise run?

It's funny that because we're looking at the auction today.

A lot of the teams were sort of preparing around their sort of home advantage.

You saw teams going with heavy spin like the Manchester Super Giants.

I thought they've gone, they've got some good spiners, they've got some good players of spin as well.

And you can see with some of their seamers the ones who take the pace off the ball.

They've put them in the score because they know that they can give them good value on home grounds.

If you can win your home games, you're pretty much halfway there to qualifying

or even more than halfway there.

You've got to win a couple of games away from home, you're into the next round

and quite close to the final.

So I've seen teams now planning for their home pitches very much so.

Southern brave, what you see with the Southern brave, is he won 130?

I mean, she obviously has been in and around but has that surprised me that number

given what she's done.

Of late and obviously you've got Tilly Courteen, Carmen.

And Lauren Bell has been paid a fortune to be taken straight in.

Yeah, she has, isn't she?

I think there's probably some England players actually that were almost seeing,

yes, they're hoping that they'd actually put themselves out there and gone in the auction

because we saw Lauren Bell and Nancy were 140k pre-signing.

And then obviously we saw Danny gives them come out for 190k.

But I think the Southern brave, I think they had a very good day,

yes, say their head coach Jonathan Batty along with Anya Strubsoul.

They've got an international bowling attack.

That they've got Sophie Molini, the new Australian captain, Izzy Wong.

Sarah Glenn was a great signing yesterday.

Lauren Bell and obviously the young said Tilly Courteen, Carmen.

So their bowling attack looks really strong and then their pre-signing of Laura Woolvart.

They got Jimmy Rodriguez for an absolute steal.

And also Lizzo Lee and Maya Boucher.

So I think they had a really good day, if not the best day yesterday.

And I'm not surprised with Jonathan Batty, he's been involved in a few auctions.

I'd like to just name there, I actually had two ends of their careers.

In Lizzo Lee, at 27.5, that is a good signing.

Lizzo Lee, I can guarantee you she'll win three games for that side.

She may go nought, nought, nought and then she'll get 140 deliveries.

She's a real talent, she smashes it, miles, and Jodie Groucac.

England are looking for a left-hander.

I think you're going out to South Africa soon to interview some of the team.

She's out there, she's a talent.

I think this is a big, big 100 coming up for the likes of Jodie Groucac.

Let's move to Sunrise's leads.

And the headline there was yesterday when Danny Gibson got picked up for 190.

I want to just talk about targets on players back when they've got a number like that

and the pressure that you have to deal with.

Right Danny Gibson, we didn't think you're going to get 190.

But you know what, you've got 190.

Now deliver, that's different.

That's massive pressure.

When you've got that number on your head and you know you've got to perform to that level.

Especially when you've got owners as well, they'll be owners about they want that performance from you

because you're one of the most expensive players.

And that's a difficult thing to deal with as a player.

You feel like everybody's watching you, all the eyes are on you.

There might not be.

People just kind of forget about it, but NASA will keep mentioning it on comms

and keep mentioning how much they're being paid.

But it's a difficult thing to put up with and keep performing

because you feel like you need to perform in every game.

The reality is, in franchise cricket, world-class performers will win you two games, three games out of ten

and contribute in a couple others.

And that's how you've got to break it down.

Can I break it down and say, out of ten games, if I can win my team two or three games, I've had a good tournament.

And if I can chip in somewhere with a couple of games here and there, that's a pretty strong tournament for any player.

I think where she's lucky is Eddie Barrel, the coach.

I think he's got really good emotional intelligence.

He's a very experienced coach.

He already has spoken about this situation.

He had a similar one with Tristan Stubbs in SA-20.

Went for a huge amount of money.

He will drag Danny to one side and he'll put an arm around it.

And that seems an odd thing to say when someone's got 190 grand.

But when you're being paid more than international players have done it for a decade or so,

you have a target on your back, as you just said.

So you will need looking after.

So just with Sunrise Lee, the women,

so Phoebe Litchfield and Annabelle Sutherland,

they're two top top overseas cake crosses there.

Danny Gibson, as we mentioned, deep dishammer.

So Lauren Winfield-Hill has actually made the trip up there.

She's got captain to experience.

I want to move on to Trent Rockets.

How do you see them lining up?

Well, their top four is absolutely gun, isn't it?

It's Dunkley, Mooney, Natsiva Brunt and Ash Gardner.

I wouldn't like to be an opening baller there for Sean.

I feel that their bat, they've gone really batter heavy.

I think they might be, they have kind of bits and pieces, bowlers.

I thought it was quite strange yesterday.

I felt that they needed an extra seamer, Shabner Mishmell.

She went on-sold and she was kind of there for the taking.

And they've gone a bit left field.

They've picked Samantha Bates, the left arm spinner from Australia.

So I think they've done well with the batting.

I think they look a little bit lackluster with the ball, if I'm honest.

In the men's, much like Sam Billings,

she'll come onto but Georgia Adams went on-sold to start with an event she was picked up by Trent Rockets,

which is remarkable.

She's done so well down at the Southern Brave, leading that side.

They're a really bad year and then they bounce back.

Now all of a sudden she's in the ranks at Trent Rockets.

No, it's something that leading up to this auction,

it's been noticed how ruthless it's become.

Some of them don't even get a text or whatever.

They don't get the owners, is it that ruthless, isn't it?

I mean, Sam Billings was saying he was captain three people.

So did Lauren Winfield Hill, she said, is that the same thing, yeah?

No, no messaging or whatever, we're not interested, move on.

It's just a business, isn't it, Rav?

No wonder you love it, it's no loyalty and just a business.

It's no loyalty.

Right, Welsh Fire, finally on the women.

Sophie Devine, what a payday for her.

I mean, quality, but she's coming towards the end.

MR, it got a nice 110.

What about the way they line up, given the conditions that are in Cardiff,

which can be a little bit tacky.

You've got wide straight boundaries, very short, sorry,

wide straight boundaries, very short straight boundaries.

Yeah, well, they've obviously, you know,

their leggy would be Georgia Wearham,

who probably bowls at that quicker pace,

or she does sort of get hit square up the wickets.

That's probably why they've gone for a leg spinner of her sort of kind.

If I look at their team, I was glad that they got Sophie Devine.

I think she's going to have to captain in this side.

I think it's a very young team.

I felt that maybe could they have gone for a little bit more experience.

You've got the lights, the youngsters of Ella Mack,

Freya Kemp, who I'm really looking forward to see England need a left hand,

and she's probably the first one out for grabs.

And Sarah Bryce, I think what Welsh Fire have done,

they've actually picked a few players that they've had at their side previously,

which is interesting, because you've got the loyalty,

but they also haven't done that well.

So what I would say about Welsh Fire,

they've got a lot of potential, but do they potentially need a few more senior players

with Sophie Devine, a lot less on her shoulders?

It's a good point you make about captaincy,

because one thing we've noted about England women's cricket team

is our times, they've lacked leaders.

When Heather Knight was axed and then they moved on,

there wasn't a long list of people,

and I'm pleased that Charlie Dean deans done quite a bit.

But the problem with franchise cricket is you get your overseas in,

they're captain, I'd like to see a bit more,

and I don't know how much I don't think they can anymore.

I've spoken to Lydia Greenway about this,

and Liz has said they can't interfere too much.

If you do want someone to play a bit more,

if you do want someone to get a bit more captaincy experience,

it's none of your business now, it's down to the franchise.

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Right, so as I say, over £6.6 million

to spend on the women's auction yesterday.

Today, if you include the pre-selections,

the men's teams, north of £15.6 and Tom Curran,

took a little chunk out of that.

He's staying at the Oval, it's not for the Oval Invincibles,

it's for M.I. London, and he's been speaking to Alex Hartley.

Tom Curran, you're going home, you're going back to M.I. London,

how are you feeling?

Yeah, he said it there, going home, I'm buzzing.

It's been a nervy morning, to be honest.

You watching?

Yeah, being watching, being watching, being chewed in.

Yeah, it's crazy, unbelievable.

Obviously, some amazing players,

and so many different scenarios playing on in the head.

So to be going back home, and obviously for so much money,

is obviously very, very exciting.

Well, £260,000.

When that kept going up and up, how are you feeling?

Well, I must have paused at some point over the morning

because my phone started going off.

I was like, what is going on here?

So I clicked Sky to go back to time,

and we were up to around 180 in Polly,

and that paddles at that stage, it was a win,

and I just wanted to be back at home.

So, like I said, huge results.

We're back at the Oval.

M.I. London, new chapter.

Let's go.

Had you had pre-conversations with the Oval or M.I. London,

sorry about going back there?

I mean, a few, a few, Sam's obviously captain,

but he does keep his class sort of closeish to his chest.

So I just said, get that paddle ready, boy.

You know?

How are they?

Apparently, Brother said, we'll sign in,

but not more than me.

Yeah, that sounds about right.

No, look, I knew, I knew obviously they were keen for me

to come back.

It was just how hard they were going to push,

and how hard other teams were going to come.

So, like I said, it was, yeah,

I had a feeling that they were going to come.

I just didn't know how hard.

And I've been in a plight of auctions for a few years now.

And from my personal experience, they are so unpredictable.

You know, teams will be thinking on the fly here,

having to readjust,

and I thought it was no different for me.

So, yeah, huge results, and super, super happy.

So Tom stays at the Oval,

but plays for M.I. London.

Tasha's disappeared.

Oh, and joins us.

Welcome along.

What have you made of the whole process?

And what have you made of,

like the Oval as we spoke about earlier with these two?

The new identity that needs to be created

was so often seen as ambillings lead,

Oval in minstrels,

to glory at lords or whatever.

I've got to restart all of that sort of stuff.

Where do you sit with building that team E-Fost?

Yeah, here.

To start with, it's been a great day.

Huge success, the names behind us,

and all of the eight teams will be happy.

When we're getting selected and picked up,

because the level of anxiousness that goes

when you're being put through the ring,

and for those that went for above market value

or premium price,

we absolutely over the moon.

It's a great sign for the game in the country,

but also the development of the young players,

particularly the come through and have opportunities to play

against premium international players.

When it comes to the investments and the partners

that teams have partnered up with,

or sold 100%.

Sport moves on.

Sport is born and sold, teams are as well,

but I think it's important that each and every team

recognizes an identity that has gone previously,

that fans have recognized, and acknowledged,

and respected to continue that on.

We see that with MI London,

we see it to a certain extent,

with the Manchester Super Giants.

So, I mean, we all move on at different stages.

I think this is one of those stages that the 100 has brought.

Let's do some of the specifics in with the teams.

Ravi, we're going to start with Birmingham Phoenix,

who pre-selected direct sign,

retained whatever.

Rayhan Armid, Jacob Bethel,

the powerful Donovan Ferreira,

Glow in from Australia,

and we saw Scott Curry's stock go through the roof,

got up to 210,000,

and also, Osman Taric got to go.

Yeah.

He was one of the guys I was looking at for this auction.

I was...

I thought, is he going to get bought?

Is he not going to get bought?

I'm glad he did.

And I want to see him on the big stage,

especially in England,

on these wickets, how he performs.

I think it's going to be very interesting to watch someone like that.

I think they picked up a really strong side bowling side, especially.

They've got the Fizz, they picked up towards the end.

Scott Curry, as you said,

Sakit Mahmoud, Osman Taric.

There's plenty of strong Woody as well.

Chris Wood, who's experienced.

He's shown...

He's shown his skills throughout the last 15 years now,

in the Blasso.

A very, very good, strong bowling line up, in my opinion.

And a couple of dangerous players in there,

but I think just on the batting,

I would feel they're probably a little bit light on the batting.

And not many bankers in there, in my opinion.

Not berthal.

Well, there's one there in the middle order.

He'll be batting in the middle somewhere,

but for the rest of them,

I think, look, forever has got a great record of it

in a six-every-five balls or something in the 100.

But how do you get over those?

You just don't bowl the fifth ball at him.

Simple as that.

I don't think that's in the Lord.

I'm pleased they gave Beth all the captaincy, by the way.

Just going back to the point of what I made about the women's

and lack of captaincy experience,

which if you play domestic county cricket, that does fall on you.

But so I'm really pleased, because England obviously see him

as a future leader.

He's already captain in Ireland, wasn't it?

So they gave it to him young.

He's disappointed yet in anything he's done, Jacob Bethal.

So on to London spirit.

And they pre-signed to Albrecht.

Liam Livingston, who obviously was at Birmingham,

has just been discussing Jamie over.

And Zamper is the spinner, so he's come across the Thames.

Come on, give us the inside track on London spirit.

What do you think?

How did their auction go?

How does that sideline up for you?

I would say measured.

I would say they went into the auction

with a certain set of goals and parameters and values.

So remember, when you go into these auctions,

players set their baseline.

It's not by pure value, by average, by wickets taken.

It is a player sitting there going,

I think I'm worth 100 grand.

So I'm putting it at 100 grand.

Or there's at 31, or there's at 50.

So the challenge for coaches, statisticians, analytics companies

is to determine that value as opposed to distinguished from the payment.

I think London spirit have done that well.

They've proved that saving money for James Colts,

who was incredibly popular around the room.

You have to highlight that you just don't sign a player for 390.

It is market value in this room and everybody in the room

really, really liked him.

I also like him.

I also think it's quite ironic that he goes for the highest amount today

when Devolt Brevis, in last year's SA-20,

also broke a record.

Went for 800,000.

There's a year between the two of them.

Devolt will be 23 by the time the tournament starts.

Young Colts will be 22.

So a huge amount for both to learn off one another,

but one how to carry the opportunity that the big price tag brings.

I was going to hold that back a bit.

James Colts, what a story.

390.

I mean, the room actually started gasping towards the end.

He picked it.

He said this bloke's going to go for a lot.

I said 330.

So I got it wrong.

You weren't out.

I said about 150.

So I was a bit further out than you.

390.

Leading up to this.

A lot of noise about him.

And rightly, because when you've seen him in other tournaments.

And you've just seen him last year's 100,

there'll be moments he would be sat in the back of the pod.

And someone also, this lad can play.

And just, if you have a gut feel for a creditor.

And just his attitude, and when you watch him,

he looks quite tough as well, which you need to be in this format.

So there was no surprise he was going to go for a big, for big money.

So I don't think it will affect him.

The only thing, obviously, I don't want to speak to you about this.

This is lords and playing at lords.

It can be a difficult pitch.

I'm not talking about him specifically.

But when you pick a side for playing at lords.

I've noticed I've got a lot of big hitters in there.

You know, the likes of living.

It's not an easy one to get timing on.

It may be better to go for your big six hitters.

Absolutely.

And with the amount of cricket at lords next year,

with, sorry, this year, with women's world court,

women's test match, men's test match, men's wipe all match as well.

You will be playing either side of the international dead centre.

You will be one side that is predominantly shorter.

So when you look at the bowling that they've gone for,

there's an incredible amount of variation with pace,

left arm, leg spin, wrist spin.

Plenty of options to take pace off as well.

Coles themselves living.

So they have plenty of options.

One thing I'd like to say about James Coles as well.

For a guy who's 21 years old,

it's very rarely we talk about in the shortest format of the game.

Somebody that has a foundation in the game.

He has eight first last 100s.

Four of them came last year.

It's great to see a pedigree player getting rewarded,

having spent volume of time in a short space of time,

but being rewarded for it in County Cricket.

Because the likes of Bethel haven't done it and been rewarded.

They're fine, obviously.

Son, it was Laundre, Pitoris as well,

which they picked up for 31 grand.

Well, I think a lot of their budget was depleted, you know.

Because they spent three of them in Laundre.

Because they spent three, 90 on Colesy.

I think he's not a good player.

They had to pick up who Colesy was.

No, Laundre, Pitoris.

No, I'm not saying he's not a good player.

He's a dangerous player.

He's a dangerous player, but they had to pick up someone for a budget.

And that's why they went for that reason.

Because their budget was low.

So they had to.

Welsh Fire went 540 in their first two.

With Cox and Roo, Roo and Cox.

That's 55% of our budget gold bloke with the paddle just.

Oh, yeah.

Put it there.

Right, Manchester Super Giants.

There's some power.

There's some power with the bat there.

I like this team.

I really, I think they probably had the best day.

But everybody did the best business on the day.

And it doesn't surprise me.

Tom Moody there as well.

He's an absolute genius when it comes to auction days.

He's been involved in so many during the IPL.

He knows how to build a team.

He's a winner.

We saw that for over the last previous four or five years now

that he wins trophies.

He builds good teams.

And look at the powerhouse.

Butler.

Cypher.

Markham.

Deploy.

Clarson.

Moors.

All top players.

Dangerous players.

They're potentially getting big runs.

In the 100 balls.

Yeah.

Ravi just trying to get himself a Tom Moody gig somewhere down the line.

What I like about them is they've picked for the venue as well.

If you think historically old Trafford.

What do you need an old Trafford historically?

Rispin and pace.

And they have got pace.

They have got tongue, baker,

Atkinson.

They went scrimsure late.

And they've got the Rispin of Naur Ahmed.

So you've got that nicely balanced with all the hitters

that Ravi talks about as well with the bat.

We haven't even mentioned Dawson.

Yeah, Dawson.

Good old Dawson.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

With the ball, can Butler any stage of the game

and quality batsman as well?

Dangerous.

On paper, I think they look the strongest.

They might not win a game next year, but on paper,

walking away tonight, I think they will be the winner.

When we left that first one, we said that about the Southern Brave, didn't we?

When the very first auction happened.

Yeah.

But we said the opposite.

Manchester, if you remember, we went on Earth, and they don't.

Manchester, I think this time.

Manchester, they've got it right.

Yeah.

I think they'll lose every game.

You coach.

You coach new director.

I think you're right.

Right.

Mummianian's London.

So the pre-signing, so there were three retained,

which was Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Rashid Khan.

They directly signed Nicholas Pluron.

He probably could have got a lot more.

Had he not been pre-signed.

But who knows?

They bid heavily for Tom Curran.

So they've got that oval sort of feel still there.

Alex Stewart was right on Karin Pollard's shoulder.

And I think that advice was coming about the domestic players that could

and would work at the oval.

I don't know if you agree or not.

No, well, he said in an interview halfway through.

It's great to have an involved to start with.

You know, vastly experienced icon of English cricket and legend of Surrey.

So to have him at the table, finger on the pulse of,

he sat back and watched exactly what the success of the oval

invincible's previously has, harness, galvanized,

and, you know, gel together a huge amount of superstars,

which is very difficult to do.

So balancing that with one eye looking at the future,

with the franchise of MI around the world,

I think they've balanced it really well.

How about just the family?

They come as a package.

Curran and Curran.

But you've got to take them out for an expensive Sunday

Roastle.

Tom Curran apparently is birthday today, so delighted for him.

But they have plenty of options.

You know, even Trent Boll, for instance, I thought, went quite cheaply.

But he is an MI player around the world.

They splashed out on James Vince, which I really like,

very experiences record at home, is brilliant,

and his success in 100 is brilliant.

And one other guy, can I mention Salta?

Yes, hugely rewarding day for Nathan Salta.

He's been one of the best 100 bowlers since the inauguration.

A reminder of Blast.

He was one of the leading wicketakers in Blast history,

coming into the 100.

Got picked up late, came in, performed last year when Rashid Khan

had to leave the tournament.

He actually out-performed Rashid Khan when he left.

So it's great to see Nathan Salta get rewarded.

Southern Brave, pre-selected or directly signed,

Joffa Archer for 400 grand, Jamie Smith,

Marcus Steuners and Tristan Stubbs.

Two of highlights at Hear Nass.

David Miller at 110 seems a bargain to me.

Yeah, I thought that immediately.

And Thomas Rue in a 80 grand.

He's one of the most exciting talents in the game.

And it was quite quiet when his name came up,

and then gradually impressed Bill and I thought I'm glad

that one of England's young stars is going to get

to get in a dresser room like that.

And he got more than his brother.

Talking about the current brothers.

Split him up, split him up.

So yeah, that was a good story.

Because you do have to keep an eye on it.

It's a franchise tournament.

But you do have to keep an eye on the future of English cricket.

And the Rue brothers are, believe me,

the future of English cricket.

And you're right about David Miller.

You know, he's just a genuine franchise,

six hitter all around the world.

A banker, basically.

You just want in this game, you go in in that middle order,

a finisher, a banker who does it time after time after time.

David Miller does that.

Talk about games in these auctions, Ramy.

Because Dan Warrell, I was thinking, well, you know,

I was at the, I was at Laws when he bowled,

the first ten balls were dots.

You know, I mean, when he gets it right,

another balls might have changed.

But those particular balls, he went around the park.

Unsold, unsold, and then they got him for 80 grand later on.

How much of that sort of gamesmanship is on?

Well, actually, we're going to have to be brave here.

We want him, but we're going to leave him

and try and get him later for a bit less.

Yeah, because you're, because you're always keeping an eye on

how much you got left in the person.

You may have someone else that you want.

And then his name comes out first and you think,

well, he, the next guy is our priority.

If we can get the next guy, then we can come back to Warrell.

And sometimes when they go unsold,

you're almost relieved, like, thank God he's got unsold.

Because now we can ever look at him down the back end.

But just looking at the brave side, I mean,

powerhouse through the middle.

Stubbs, storeiness and Miller.

I think that's some serious power there.

I think they set up quite nicely.

They'll surprise a few teams, in my opinion,

Archer, Adil Rashid.

So it's a decent bowling line up as well.

Luke, Wood, Chris Jordan.

So I think they'll surprise a lot of teams.

There's a lot of power there as well.

Sunrise is leads.

And I'm going to start with the politics of this side.

And the fact that Abraham Ed was purchased for 190 now.

A lot of chalk before 100,

that Pakistan players weren't going to be selected.

Certainly from IPL owned or associated teams.

A Dictat came out from ECB that you can't do that.

People talk about law and all this sort of stuff.

Sunrise is leads.

An IPL backed franchise.

But Abraham is for 190 grand.

It will be the headline tomorrow in most of the papers.

Because leading up to this tournament,

it was all about Will and IPL side,

sign a Pakistan.

They haven't done generally.

There's been a couple KKR have done in the past.

But will they sign one in the 100?

They were reminded that it's for everyone.

And the legal ramifications have not signed it.

And they said we will sign on cricketing ability.

And I can tell you,

India awoke the moment that happened.

Pakistan awoke.

The ECB would have been absolutely thrilled with that signing.

And I think it's the right thing to do.

You know, you sign on cricket.

And he's a very good cricketer.

It's a brave thing to do.

And they'll cop a bit of flag with it back in India.

But, you know,

I think you just got to pick on cricketing ability.

And that's what they've done.

How do they line up for you?

I think they're line up okay.

I think they've got a very strong batting line up.

I do have questions over there.

Bowling, I don't know if you agree.

I mean, Abraham for me,

still untested in English conditions.

So, you know,

bowling in Pakistan way,

the most majority of these bowling,

here in England,

sometimes the ball that comes out the front of the hand,

sort of where you don't get that zip off the wicket.

So, relying on Abrah,

I think, throughout the tournament,

could be tricky for them.

I think they do line up really nice in the batting,

but I think questionable over there bowling.

I agree with you, Robert.

It looks very samey to me.

Karas Ellis pots,

and probably Benny Hall with a bit of change, really.

So, they needed somebody like an Abrah.

They've done with a little bit,

maybe a left armour,

so they've signed Reese Topley as well,

but they signed him late.

So, it was a bit of an afterthought.

Remember, prioritisation of quality players and auctions

are at a premium.

So, you go after your wanted players,

and to start with,

they went after a lot of ride-arm seamers.

So, that's a concern.

I might have to go back a step, actually,

to Southern Brave,

because I missed Rash.

Yeah, 250 grand.

250 grand for Rash.

I mean, that's a massive sign.

Huge, that one.

And, again, you've got to go early,

you've got to have direction,

what you want.

We saw Joe Root go in huge demand early.

Adele Rashid, we knew,

was going to be at a premium,

but that 250,000 pounds for Adele Rashid is not a premium.

He is a 300, 350,000, even more.

And he proved that,

this men's world cup.

I mean, he was the best bowler in the tournament.

He was the best wrist-spin bowler

in the tournament by miles.

Nepal were the ones that actually tested him,

the most, but he proves against the best.

He still is the best.

So, well done, Southern Brave, again.

Right.

So, my mistake,

because I missed out on Rash.

So, we're going to go to Trent Rockets.

Now, we don't know what the pitch is going to be like,

necessarily.

Trent Bridge, now,

but we can probably hazard a guess

that they're going to probably spin.

So, what, and how have they covered that option?

Obviously, they pre-signed Mitch Sander for

a pretty low number of 175

when you consider, probably, he could have got...

If Abra is getting 190 wherever it was,

he might have got a few more quid,

but he was pre-signed.

How do they line up,

given the conditions?

We'll see it, Trent.

My one memory of this afternoon,

I think, will be the Trent Rockets,

just constantly putting their paddle up.

They must have bid for nearly everyone in the room

and got completely every time, virtually.

They got outbid,

so they were kept delaying.

And in the end, they did get a couple of spinners.

They had to go right towards the end

and get someone like Danny Briggs,

because they were looking for experience.

I like their batting options in Benton and Duckett.

That's dynamic,

and obviously Tim David in the middle order.

Finn Allen.

You know, that is, you know,

that is a top, top signing.

So, they have a lot of power hitting.

Matt Henry Brilliant with the new ball.

Sam Billings is a good story there.

Willie Captain.

Who else could Captain Sandman?

Gregor Easey, the other one,

who has...

I thought it was going to be between Gregory and Billings.

What would you do?

Well, if you've played 180 grand for Billings,

you want to hope that he's going to do more than just...

a gloveman and bat at number six or seven.

You want more from him,

and I think that they will want him to Captain.

Good Captain, as well.

Tasted success.

Absolutely.

The old absolutely knows how to get it done regardless.

You can look at this squad again,

the most exciting players,

are the headline acts with whatever,

Alan, Tom Banton, Mitchell Sandman,

are those types of players.

But he is a very good captain.

He's very astute.

Even with the gloves on,

he gets it on.

Even on their worst days,

the Oval Envincibles found a way to win.

There was some confusion when the Trent Rockets

I was being put together.

Matt Henry, his base price was actually 100 grand,

which the auctioneer got right,

and there was some confusion.

So initially we thought he'd gone for an absolute steal at 75.

100 grand for Matt Henry is...

is damn fine business.

And Danny Briggs,

they had the wrong picture of Danny Briggs.

And we all thought it was the fella from Top Gun.

We weren't sure if he was a left arm spinner or not.

But anyway, that's what the Trent Rockets are.

They finally Welshed fire,

and they went in with the checkbook Heavy,

Joe Roo, 240.

There was a bit between Lee's,

I thought he was going to win.

He's going to win up at Lee's,

and he ends up down in Cardiff 240.

And Jordan Cox, 300.

Now I wonder if that's light.

I had him similar actually to Coles,

in and around 330,

just because he is an international cricket player.

He's not played a great deal.

He could have had opportunities.

He hasn't played through injury,

but he has continued to perform like an international cricketer.

So you would pay him international cricket money.

He's a top-order badger,

he'll guarantee runs good player of spin.

But they've absolutely splashed the cash early.

Joe Roo, then Jordan Cox.

They've even...

What's allowed them to do that is retaining...

or presigning Marco Jansen, Chris Wolkes.

Two genuine all-rounders that can bat

six, seven, or five, six.

And then it allows them to either go top-heavy or bottom-heavy.

They've gone top-heavy.

I don't mind it at all.

So in terms of the money they spent on batsmen though,

Phil Salt presigned for 450,

root for 240,

sorry, Jordan Cox for 300.

That's why I made the comparison

about all this being like a fantasy football

or cricket team.

You pick your fantasy football team.

You go, I'm going to have Harland,

I'm going to have Sacker,

and you get to the end,

and you've got a lot of £2.50 left.

And you've still got eight players to pick or whatever.

That's how I thought the world.

You don't.

You don't.

So they did go in early.

There's two ways of doing it.

They went in early.

They probably said they're the cricketers we want.

And they've got them.

I think Jordan Cox,

the way he played last year,

I think we've forgotten.

It's quite an interesting story,

because you sort of disappeared this win to Jordan Cox, isn't he?

And if you'd seen him in the 100 last summer,

you'd have thought this lad is going to play

a lot of white ball cricket for England,

and he hasn't yet.

So I think people have just remembered rightly,

Jordan Cox is a serious cricketer.

He is a serious cricketer.

I mean, he can play.

In any conditions as well, he scores runs.

I've seen him score runs in Sri Lanka on tough pitches.

Here in England, he's beat the ball,

so I mean, he's a top cricket.

He's worth every penny.

Ancified gardens isn't a ground,

where predominantly baddies would go,

I can't wait to go and play that.

So clearly, they've identified,

you know, you need to bat a bit deeper,

possibly go a bit harder in various different stages.

And actually, what levels out the playing field

with the bowlers might be the pitch,

so clear and concise.

Also, I think, I mean,

they've played a lot of money for Rootie,

and I think Root's going to be a big plan

in some of their bowling.

I think Rootie's going to do a lot of bowling this year

with a wash trial.

Got a funny feeling.

Just having a look at their side,

a little bit weak on spin.

I mean, they got ratch in there who will probably bowl 20 balls,

but I think Rootie's going to do a lot of bowling.

That was the only question.

They didn't have a wrist spinner.

They ended up picking up Chauhan,

which is a very, very good young capable spinner,

but he could have easily gone unsold the whole of today.

So a bit of an afterthought and a panic,

because if you remember,

they ran out of time here,

and they were supposed to nominate a player,

so a little bit of panic late in the auction.

Gentlemen, thank you very much indeed.

It's been a busy day, a long day.

That's one of the things

with the auction opposed to the draft.

So the women's sides are filled, the men's sides are filled,

except for two more possible wild cards

at the end of Vitality Wildcard.

That's a little further down the line.

A lot of money has been spent in some very happy players,

and some perhaps not-so-happy players.

First game, though,

is Numbai Indians London,

against some rises in the 100th,

on July 21st.