WPL 2024: 5 big guns who went unsold at auction
On one hand, a few players hit the headlines for pulling off lucrative contracts while some illustrious names failed to attract any bids at the event.
4. Sri Lanka - Chamari Athapaththu
Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu has gone unsold in the WPL auctions for consecutive two years. This time, she broke into the auction at a base price INR 50 lakh but no franchise showed interest in her. The Sri Lanka veteran looked magnificent with her bat in the recently played 2023-24 Women’s Big Bash League.
Appearing for Sydney Thunder, she hit 552 runs with five half-centuries in 15 matches and ended up as the second-highest run-scorer in the tournament. Noting her performance, cricket analysts were expecting her to bag a massive amount in the 2024 WPL auction.
Charlotte Edwards, Mumbai Indians (MI) coach, also expressed surprise at the franchises’ decision not to pick up the Sri Lanka stalwart. Athapathu has performed exceptionally with the bat in the last one and a half years and a lot of cricketing pundits feel she deserved to get picked up in this auction.
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