The Women's Premier League (WPL 2024) auction has ended. Many players got lucky in this auction while many players remained unlucky as they did not find any buyer. A total of 165 cricketers were bid in the auction and out of these 165 players, 104 were Indian and 61 were foreign players (from 14 countries), out of which 15 players were from Associate countries. Annabel Sutherland and Kashvi Gautam became the most expensive players in the auction, both of them were bought for a huge amount of Rs 2 crore.
However, as usually happens, some players were expected to be sold for huge sums before the WPL 2024 auction but when the auction ended, these players remained unsold. There were many big names in the list of unsold players, seeing which everyone was shocked. In this article, we will take a look at three players who surprisingly went unsold in the WPL 2024 auction.
1. Chamari Atapattu
There was a lot of discussion about Chamari Atapattu before the auction and most experts believed that she would be one of the expensive players in this season of the Women's Premier League after her explosive performance in international cricket, but Atapattu surprisingly went unsold in the second consecutive season of WPL. Stayed. She was the Player of the Tournament in the recently concluded Women's Big Bash League. In that tournament, the all-rounder scored 511 runs at an average of 42.58 and also took nine wickets. Not only this, Atapattu's figures in T-20 cricket for Sri Lanka are also excellent. He has scored 2,651 runs in 120 innings, which includes one century and eight half-centuries. The 33-year-old player has also taken 40 wickets in Women's T-20 International. With all these achievements, everyone was expecting that many teams would like to include Atapattu in their team but no franchise showed interest in buying him, which was a decision that shocked the cricket fans.
2. Diandra Dottin
West Indies all-rounder Deandra Dottin was another big player who remained unsold during the WPL 2024 auction. Dottin is a fast bowling all-rounder and has been an incredible player for the West Indies over the last decade and a half. Dottin has scored 2,697 runs with the bat in 125 innings of 127 T20 matches for West Indies and scored two centuries. She has been equally effective with the ball and has taken 62 wickets at an average of 19.19 and her economy rate has also been 6.42, which is considered excellent in T20 cricket. Like Atapattu, Dottin was also expected to attract huge bids but his remaining unsold also shocked many people.
3. Tara Norris
If you have watched the first season of the Women's Premier League, then you will definitely remember the name of Tara Norris. The 25-year-old plays international cricket for the USA and hailing from an Associate Nation, she made her mark in the inaugural WPL season. It is a very difficult task for a fast bowler to take five wickets in a T-20 match in India but Norris had done this also. Norris has the distinction of being the first player to take a five-wicket haul in the WPL. She played for Delhi Capitals in the inaugural edition of the tournament and achieved the feat against Royal Challengers Bangalore. If any team had bought Norris, they would have had the opportunity to play an additional foreign player because Norris comes from an associate country, but it seems that the teams could not look at Norris in search of big players. Norris played five matches in WPL 2023 and took seven wickets in them. She is a left-arm fast bowler and adds a unique dimension to the bowling attack but this time we will not see Norris playing in the WPL, which is surprising everyone.
