Punjab pacer Kashvee Gautam fetched a winning bid of Rs 2 crore from Gujarat Giants to become the costliest uncapped India player while the Australians were the most sought after lot among the overseas players at the WPL auction in Monday on Saturday.
With most of the frontline Indian players settled across the five-team league, the auction was largely about how the big names from overseas would do and there were indeed some big omissions as far as franchise's preference was concerned.
However, Sri Lanka's Chamari Athapaththu, the Player of the Tournament in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL), found no takers in two separate rounds of auction.
The same was the fate of West Indies' Deandra Dottin, who went unsold as she had a tumultuous experience of WPL in the first last edition.
Dottin was one of the only two players with base price of Rs 50 lakh. Australian-Irish player Kim Garth, who had replaced the West Indies' player at the Giants' squad last year, too found no takers.
England wicketkeeper-batter Amy Jones (base price Rs 40 lakh), Tammy Beaumont, Bess Heath, Australia's Alana King and New Zealand's Lea Tahuhu were among those who also did not spark any interest among the five teams.
Among the capped Indian players who did not find any takers were Priya Punia, Devika Vaidya, Punam Raut and Sushma Verma.
- With PTI inputs
