In whole, 964 gamers have signed up for the public sale, which would be the first of its form within the UK after the match moved away from a draft system after the exterior funding into the eight groups.
The lads’s record consists of England batter Joe Root, leg-spinner Adil Rashid, wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow and final 12 months’s main run-scorer Jordan Cox – all of whom weren’t retained by their franchises.
Stokes has not performed within the competitors since 2024, having skipped it last year to manage his workload.
Mark Wooden, at the moment recovering from a knee harm after the Ashes, will not be on the record, neither is veteran bowler James Anderson.
The abroad names embrace South Africa internationals Quinton de Kock, David Miller and Aiden Markram, plus West Indies internationals Jason Holder, Sherfane Rutherford and Shimron Hetmyer.
Pakistan’s Saim Ayub, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz and Naseem Shah have additionally registered on the highest males’s reserve value of £100,000. Usman Tariq, Pakistan’s thriller spinner, can be on the record.
Squads will probably be made up of between 16 to 18 gamers, whereas there’s a wage cap restrict together with a wage collar – a minimal quantity groups should spend.
The wage pot within the males’s competitors for 2026 has risen by 45% to £2.05m per aspect, and the fund for ladies’s groups has elevated by 100% to £880,000.
England internationals Em Arlott, Amy Jones, Danielle Gibson, Sarah Glenn and Linsey Smith are among the many girls’s gamers to enter the draft on the £50,000 reserve value.
Davina Perrin, who scored a century aged 18 in final 12 months’s eliminator, has set her reserve value at £37,500.
South Africa all-rounder Nadine de Klerk, New Zealand’s Sophie Devine, Australia’s Beth Mooney and India’s Richa Ghosh are the opposite girls’s gamers within the highest bracket. India captain Harmanpreet Kaur is a notable absentee.
There aren’t any Indians on the lads’s record.
Present India males’s internationals aren’t currently allowed to play in franchise leagues other than the Indian Premier League however England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Richard Thompson has mentioned it’s “solely a matter of time” earlier than they characteristic in The Hundred.
