Squads might 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 facet, and the fund for girls’s groups has elevated by 100% to £880,000.
The minimal wage for a feminine participant has additionally risen by 50% to £15,000, whereas the variety of abroad gamers permitted in each competitions will increase from three to 4.
Franchises had been permitted to signal or retain as much as 4 gamers every previous to the public sale.
Fixtures for the 2026 version of The Hundred have additionally been introduced.
The opening males’s and ladies’s double-header will happen on 21 July at The Oval between MI London v Sunrisers Leeds, two franchises with IPL possession hyperlinks.
A total of 64 matches, external happen within the group stage, cut up equally between the lads’s and ladies’s competitions.
The ultimate spherical of group fixtures might be performed on 12 August, with the Eliminator two days later and the ultimate on Sunday, 16 August.
Each the Eliminator and closing could have reserve days in place within the occasion of dangerous climate.
Each sport might be reside on BBC Sounds, with highlights on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport web site, plus 16 matches will even be out there to observe reside on BBC tv.













