ECB reveals the reserve price bracket of various players for The Hundred tournament

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is all set to host the player’s draft for the upcoming men’s domestic tournament, The Hundred on February 23, Tuesday. It is learned that as many as 252 overseas and 254 domestic players have registered for the domestic league while only 35 slots are available including seven slots for overseas players.

After the franchises revealed the list of their retained and released players earlier in the month of February, the players registered themselves at various base prices for the 2021 edition that is expected to take place in July 2021. All the eight franchises will have 14 players each including three overseas players. However, the players now have to incur a 20% cut in the salary bands due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Speaking about the upcoming 100-ball tournament, the Director of Event Operations, Rob Hillman said as quoted by Cricbuzz, “We are delighted with the level of interest we’ve had from both overseas and domestic players. There is a huge appetite to play in The Hundred which is designed to open up cricket to more families and young people with fast world-class action on the pitch and blockbuster entertainment off it. The calibre of the players involved means that it’s going to be an exciting men’s draft – with a lot of competition for spaces amongst really top-drawer names.

8 players register themselves in the second-highest reserve price bracket for The Hundred

A total of 10 players have registered their names in the highest reserve price bracket of GBP 100,000. The players in this price bracket include Babar Azam, David Warner, Nicholas Pooran, Shakib Al Hasan, Quinton De Kock, Lockie Ferguson, Jason Holder, Tamim Iqbal Khan, Kieron Pollard and Kagiso Rabada.

Eight cricketers feature in the elite list of GBP 80,000 price bracket namely Shahid Afridi, Faf du Plessis, Moises Henriques, Shimron Hetmyer, Mitchell Marsh, Joshua Philippe, Jhye Richardson, Imran Tahir. Martin Guptill, Shadab Khan, Marnus Labuschagne, Chris Morris, Colin Munro, Anrich Nortje and Dale Steyn have included their name in the price bracket of GBP 60,000 while Tim Bresnan (GBP 48,000), Ryan Ten Doeschate (GBP 48,000) and Richard Levi (GBP 32,000) are the only three domestic players with a reserve price.