Rosa Simkin (@rosatalksball) – 10/03/25
Date – Wednesday 12th of March
Time – 15:30 (GMT)
Where To Follow – The Hundred Website
As anticipation builds for the 2025 summer, The Hundred squads are nearing completion, with The Hundred Draft scheduled for Wednesday. This Draft marks the second stage of squad selection, following last month’s announcement of 2024 retainees and overseas Direct Signings on The Hundred Deadline Day.
Here’s my draft preview/guide for the women’s tournament. It covers everything you need to know ahead of the Draft, including how selection will work, available players, who to keep an eye on, and more. I’ve figured out how it all works so you don’t have to!
Order of Content – How Does The Draft Work (Part One – Draft Order, Part Two – Squad Size, Part Three – The Salary Bands, Part Four – The Additional Rules & Part Five – The Vitality Wildcard Draft), How do the squads currently look, Available slots in the squads, Who is available for selection?, Who should you keep an eye on?
How does The Draft work?
Part One – Draft Order:
Teams take it in turn to select players. The Draft goes in the order of the salary bands (highest-lowest). If a team has already filled one of their salary bands they will skip that round.
The draft order is a reverse of the final standings from 2024 (8th Place – 1st Place)
Draft Order –
- Southern Brave
- Birmingham Phoenix
- Manchester Originals
- Trent Rockets
- Northern Superchargers
- Oval Invincibles
- Welsh Fire
- London Spirit
Part Two – Squad Size:
Each of the eight teams has a maximum squad size of 15 players, they have already had the opportunity to retain up to ten players from their 2024 squads. They also had the opportunity to make a direct signing of one overseas player.
Each team can have a maximum of three overseas players.
Each side will use the draft to fill any remaining gaps in salary bands 1 – 13. The two lowest salary bands (14 & 15) will be filled at a later date during the “Vitality Wild Card Draft” (more info in part five).
Part Three – The Salary Bands:
The salary bands for the 2025edition of the tournament have increased in the women’s tournament. There is one player per salary band listed. (e.g. 2 players will earn £65k etc.)
| Salary Band 1 – £65,000 | Salary Band 9 – £16,000 |
| Salary Band 2 – £65,000 | Salary Band 10 – £16,000 |
| Salary Band 3 – £50,000 | Salary Band 11 – £12,500 |
| Salary Band 4 – £50,000 | Salary Band 12 – £12,500 |
| Salary Band 5 – £36,000 | Salary Band 13 – £10,000 |
| Salary Band 6 – £36,000 | Salary Band 14 – £10,000 |
| Salary Band 7 – £20,000 | Salary Band 15 – £10,000 |
| Salary Band 8 – £20,000 |
REMEMBER – Only bands 1 – 13 will be filled at the conclusion of this draft!!!
Part Four – The Additional Rules:
Reserve Prices:
- The players who enter the draft had the opportunity to set themselves a reserve price, those who opted to do so cannot be signed for a lower amount of money then that price (BUT they can recieve more money if a team decides to give it!)
The Right to Match Card:
- Each of the eight women’s teams has access to one “Right to Match” opportunity. This allows a team to re-sign one of their 2024 players that they didn’t retain on Deadline Day, but only when a rival team offers to buy them during the Draft.
- In order to use this “card”, they have to offer the same salary as that player’s prospective new team is doing. Therefore, if they have already filled up all their slots at that salary band, the option to use the card is not available.
- Historically in the Draft, the team with the first pick (this year Southern Brave), have used it to force other teams to use their RTM cards early.
Part Five – The Vitality Wildcard Draft (Done Post The Draft):
After the conclusion of the draft on Wednesday, each side will have their lowest two salary bands still empty. These are filled by The Vitality Wildcard Draft.
The draft which occurs closer to the start of The Hundred in August allows teams to reward domestic form. In short it means players who weren’t selected in the main Draft can still pick up a contract.
How do the squads currently look?
Stage One of 2025 selection has already occured as 75 retainees were announced on The Hundred Deadline Day. Each side could retain a maximum of ten players from their 2024 squads.
Teams also had the opportunity to sign one overseas player directly to their squad ahead of The Draft. These players didn’t have to take part in the 2024 tournament. This clause was new for the 2025 season.
Direct signings are indicated by a *. Overseas players are indicated by italics.
Birmingham Phoenix (8 Signings) – Ellyse Perry (£65,000), Amy Jones (£50,000), Megan Schutt (£36,000)*, Em Arlott (£36,000), Charis Pavely (£20,000), Hannah Baker (£20,000), Sterre Kalis (£16,000) & Ailsa Lister (£10,000).
London Spirit (10 Signings) – Grace Harris (£65,000), Sarah Glenn (£50,000), Dani Gibson (£50,000), Deepti Sharma (£36,000), Charlie Dean (£36,000), Eva Gray (£20,000), Georgia Redmayne (£20,000), Cordelia Griffith (£16,000), Tara Norris (£12,500) & Sophie Munro (£12,500)
Manchester Originals (9 Signings) – Sophie Ecclestone (£65,000), Amelia Kerr (£65,000)*, Beth Mooney (£50,000), Lauren Filer (£36,000), Eve Jones (£20,000), Mahika Gaur (£20,000), Fi Morris (£16,000), Kathryn Bryce (£16,000) & Danielle Gregory (£12,500).
Northern Superchargers (10 Signings) – Annabel Sutherland (£65,000), Phoebe Litchfield (£65,000), Kate Cross (£50,000), Georgia Wareham (£50,000), Linsey Smith (£36,000), Bess Heath (£36,000), Alice Davidson-Richards (£20,000), Hollie Armitage (£20,000), Grace Ballinger (£16,000) & Davina Perrin (£12,500).
Oval Invincibles (10 Signings) – Marizanne Kapp (£65,000), Lauren Winfield-Hill (£50,000), Alice Capsey (£50,000), Meg Lanning (£36,000)*, Amanda-Jade Wellington (£36,000), Ryana MacDonald-Gay (£20,000), Tash Farrant (£20,000), Sophia Smale (£16,000), Jo Gardner (£12,500) & Rachel Slater (£10,000).
Southern Brave (8 Signings) – Danni Wyatt Hodge (£65,000), Laura Wolvaardt (£65,000)*, Lauren Bell (£50,000), Maia Bouchier (£50,000), Freya Kemp (£36,000), Georgia Adams (£20,000), Rhianna Southby (£12,500) & Tilly Corteen-Coleman (£12,500).
Trent Rockets (10 Signings) – Nat Sciver-Brunt (£65,000), Ash Gardner (£65,000), Alana King (£50,000), Heather Graham (£50,000), Bryony Smith (£36,000), Kirstie Gordon (£20,000), Grace Scrivens (£20,000), Alexa Sonehouse (£16,000), Nat Wraith (£12,500) & Cassidy McCarthy (£10,000).
Welsh Fire (10 Signings) – Hayley Matthews (£65,000), Jess Jonassen (£50,000), Tammy Beamont (£50,000), Sarah Bryce (£36,000), Shabnim Ismail (£36,000), Freya Davies (£20,000), Georgia Elwiss (£20,000), Georgia Davis (£16,000), Emily Windsor (£12,500) & Beth Langston (£10,000).
Available slots in the squads:
Reminder – Each of the squads will wait to fill their lowest two slots until The Vitality Wildcard Draft.
Birmingham Phoenix (7 Slots Available) – 1x £65k, 1x £50k, 1x £16k, 2x £12.5k & 2x £10k.
London Spirit (5 Slots Available) – 1x £65k, 1k £16k & 3x £10k.
Manchester Originals (6 Slots Available) – 1x £50k, 1x £36k, 1x £12.5k & 3x £10k.
Northern Superchargers (5 Slots Available) – 1x £16k, 1x £12.5k & 3x £10k.
Oval Invincibles (5 Slots Available) – 1x £65k, 1x £16k, 1x £12.5k & 2x £10k.
Southern Brave (7 Slots Available) – 1x £36k, 1x £20k, 2x £16k & 3x £10k.
Trent Rockets (5 Slots Available) – 1x £36k, 1x £16k, 1x £12.5k & 2x £10k.
Welsh Fire (5 Slots Available) – 1x £65k, 1x £16k, 1x £12.5k & 2x &10k.
Who is available for selection? (international players & domestic players)
121 domestic players and 110 international players have put themselves forward for the draft. There are 4 overseas and 41 domestic slots left to fill. However, due to the Vitality Wildcard Draft only 25 of the remaining domestic slots will be filled at this stage.
You can see the complete lists of available players below.
Who should you keep an eye on?
Domestic Players:
Sophia Dunkley (Surrey & England)
Heather Knight (Somerset & England)
Katie Levick (Durham)
Paige Scholfield (Surrey)
Mady Villiers (Durham)
Issy Wong (Warwickshire & England)
International Players (The four I think will be selected):
Kim Garth (Australia)
Alyssa Healy (Australia)
Chinelle Henry (West Indies)
Georgia Voll (Australia)
Would it be a Rosa Talks Ball article without some potentially dodgy predictions?
