The Hundred will host its first participant public sale in March 2026, marking a serious shift in choice and wage construction forward of the competitors’s sixth season.
Developed by The Hundred Taking part in Working Group and accepted by The Hundred board, the adjustments intention to spice up competitiveness and entice high expertise within the males’s and girls’s video games.
Squads will now embrace 16 to 18 gamers, with as much as 4 abroad signings, whereas a wage cap and collar (minimal spend) will likely be enforced.
Whereas minimal salaries stay, fastened wage bands have been eliminated, permitting groups to bid freely. Multi-year contracts will even be launched.
The boys’s wage pot will rise by 45 per cent to £2.05m per staff. The ladies’s pot will double to £880,000, with base salaries for the lowest-paid gamers growing by 50 per cent to £15,000.
High feminine gamers may earn round £130,000, reflecting a dedication to pay fairness and competitiveness in ladies’s sport.
Groups might make as much as 4 pre-auction signings between mid-November and January. Of those, a most of three may be direct signings – restricted to abroad or England centrally-contracted gamers – and no less than one have to be a retention.
Every staff can signal as much as two centrally-contracted England gamers and two abroad gamers. The “right to match” possibility won’t be obtainable this season.
Pre-auction signings will lead to salary-pot deductions, following a tiered mannequin much like the IPL.
The Vitality Wildcard Draft will proceed, permitting groups to finalise squads with two home picks in June based mostly on efficiency.
Managing director Vikram Banerjee stated: “This is a hugely exciting time for The Hundred. These changes will help us make the competition even better, ensuring we get the best players in the world and improving the standard of cricket and entertainment.”
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He highlighted three guiding ideas: attracting high expertise, sustaining aggressive stability, and guaranteeing parity throughout males’s and girls’s codecs.
Banerjee famous the lads’s wage enhance displays market calls for, whereas the ladies’s pot has grown from simply £120,000 on the competitors’s inception.
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“Salaries in The Hundred women’s competition are very competitive and compare favourably with other franchise leagues and across women’s sport,” he added.
“It’s been fantastic to work alongside our new partners. Their energy and expertise will help make The Hundred even better for fans and players alike.”
