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David Warner and Meg Lanning top a host of Australia's top white-ball stars who'll be in the draft for the 2024 edition of English cricket's The Hundred.
David Warner and Meg Lanning top a list of 121 Australians who feature in the draft for the 2024 edition of The Hundred, England's money-spinning white-ball tournament.
Allrounder Josh Inglis is the one Aussie to be included in the biggest money bracket of PS125,000 ($A244,000) for the men's event, while Warner is in the next highest band with a PS100,000 ($A195,000) reserve.
Ash Gardner could be among the big earners in the women's tournament with the biggest reserve price of PS50,000 ($97,500) while Lanning, enjoying a lucrative post-international career in the white-ball game, is priced at PS40,000 ($A58,500) along with Beth Mooney and Annabel Sutherland.
Warner, now retired from Test and ODI cricket but set to play this year's T20 World Cup, has twice previously registered for English cricket's 100-ball-a-side event but pulled out in 2021 and was then overlooked for the second edition.
Plenty of the Australians who are set to feature in the men's World Cup in the US in June will then go to England for The Hundred which begins on July 23.
Lanning, who played for Trent Rockets in 2022, will be among a host of Australian stars out to grab one of the remaining 75 places available in the draft which will take place on March 20 in London.
They'll hope to join Australian stars who have already been retained by their teams, including Adam Zampa, Spencer Johnson, Ellyse Perry and Phoebe Litchfield.
Alongside Inglis in the highest price bracket are six more top overseas players -Angelo Matthews (Sri Lanka), Angus McKenzie, Daryl Mitchell, Mitch Santner (New Zealand), Sunil Narine and Nicholas Pooran (West Indies).
Also in the women's top price band besides Gardner are the star Indian trio of Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues and Deepti Sharma.
LIST OF AUSTRALIAN PLAYERS IN THE HUNDRED DRAFT
MEN'S COMPETITION
Reserve Price: PS125,000 ($A244,000): Josh Inglis
PS100,000 ($195,000): David Warner
PS75,000 ($A147,000): Matthew Wade
PS60,000 ($A117,000): Alex Carey, Usman Khawaja, Michael Neser
PS50,000 ($A98,000): Sean Abbott, Jason Behrendorff, Aaron Hardie, Daniel Sams
PS40,000 ($A78,000): Jake Fraser-McGurk, Moises Henriques, Ben McDermott, Riley Meredith, Lance Morris, Josh Philippe, Ashton Turner, Andrew Tye
No Reserve Price: 64 players including Cameron Bancroft, Tim David, Scott Boland and Matt Renshaw.
WOMEN'S COMPETITION
Reserve Price PS50,000 ($A97,500): Ash Gardner
PS40,000 ($A78,009): Meg Lanning, Beth Mooney, Annabel Sutherland
PS30,000 ($A58,500): Darcie Brown, Kim Garth, Jess Jonassen, Sophie Molineux, Megan Schutt, Amanda-Jade Wellington
PS17,500 ($A34,000): Erin Burns
No Reserve Price: 29 players, including Laura Harris and Heather Graham.
