Women's Cricket Leagues: WPL, WBBL, the Hundred and More

Women's professional cricket now runs on a calendar of franchise leagues, much like the men's game: the Women's Premier League in India, the Women's Big Bash in Australia, the women's Hundred in England, the Women's CPL in the Caribbean, and a professional county structure underneath. This page is a dated directory of each, with its teams, its current champion and when it next plays, as of 29 October 2026, the day after the WPL 2027 auction in Kochi and the day the twelfth WBBL season began.

The Leagues at a Glance

Women's Big Bash League

The oldest of the big women's franchise leagues, launched in 2015 alongside the men's Big Bash, with the same eight teams. Hobart Hurricanes won their first title in December 2025, beating Perth Scorchers by eight wickets at home in Hobart, with Lizelle Lee making 77 not out. The twelfth season is now under way: 43 matches over 38 days, ending with the final on 5 December.

It opened with a double-header at Junction Oval in Melbourne on Thursday 29 October. Sydney Thunder beat Melbourne Renegades by six wickets in the afternoon game, chasing 139 with 18 balls to spare after Georgia Voll took 4 for 26. Under the ground's new lights that evening, Melbourne Stars beat the champions Hobart Hurricanes by 18 runs: Meg Lanning made 71 and Annabel Sutherland 57 in a total of 192 for 4, then Sutherland took 3 for 34 as the Hurricanes finished on 174 for 8 despite Lee's 57 off 33 balls.

Women's Premier League

India's league began in 2023, when the BCCI sold five franchises for a combined 4,669.99 crore rupees. The teams are Delhi Capitals, Gujarat Giants, Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bengaluru and UP Warriorz. Royal Challengers won the 2026 final on 5 February at Vadodara, chasing 204 to beat Delhi Capitals by six wickets, the highest successful chase in the league's history, with Smriti Mandhana making 87. It was their second title, level with Mumbai Indians; Delhi Capitals have lost all four finals.

The fifth season runs from 14 January to 7 February 2027. Each team plays the other four twice, the top three go into the playoffs and the table-topper goes straight to the final. The BCCI had not announced the venues at the time of writing. Mandhana's 3.4 crore rupees from the first auction in 2023 is still the league's record auction price, and nothing at the 2027 auction came close to it. Her retention by Royal Challengers before the 2026 season was at the maximum retention price of 3.5 crore, the same figure as Nat Sciver-Brunt at Mumbai Indians and Ashleigh Gardner at Gujarat Giants, but retentions and auction bids are counted separately.

WPL 2027 Auction Results

The auction was a small one. It took place in Kochi on 28 October 2026, with 27 slots to fill across the five teams from the squads left after the September retention deadline, and 25 of them were filled, leaving Royal Challengers and Delhi Capitals one short each. For readers new to Indian prices, one crore is ten million rupees and one lakh is 100,000, so 1 crore is 100 lakh.

Australia's T20 captain Sophie Molineux was the most expensive player, sold to UP Warriorz for 1.1 crore rupees, about 120,000 US dollars, after her former team Royal Challengers dropped out of the bidding at 1.05 crore with 1.15 crore still in their purse. She was the only player to pass 1 crore. Kiran Navgire, the India middle-order batter, was the most expensive Indian at 75 lakh, to Delhi Capitals. Sri Lanka's captain Chamari Athapaththu, at a base price of 30 lakh, and England's Sophia Dunkley, at 50 lakh, both went unsold. Twelve of the 25 players sold were uncapped Indians, and 15-year-old Uma Kashvi, bought by Delhi Capitals for 10 lakh, became the youngest player ever sold at a WPL auction.

• UP Warriorz: came in with the biggest purse, 3.75 crore, and eight slots after releasing nine players, and filled all eight. Sophie Molineux (1.1 crore), Sneh Rana, Grace Harris, Sushma Verma and S Asha (30 lakh each), and Kathryn Bryce, Manali Dakshini and Sahana Pawar (10 lakh each). Harris returns to the side she played for in the first three seasons after a year at Royal Challengers, and Rana joins her fourth franchise in five seasons.
• Delhi Capitals: Kiran Navgire (75 lakh), plus Uma Kashvi, Scotland's Kirstie Gordon and Nazma Khan (10 lakh each).
• Gujarat Giants: wicketkeeper G Kamalini (40 lakh, her base price, two seasons after Mumbai Indians paid 1.6 crore for her), Ireland all-rounder Orla Prendergast (30 lakh), who is set for her first WPL season, and 16-year-old Samaira Raghav (10 lakh).
• Royal Challengers Bengaluru: the champions bought nobody in the first ten sets, then took Jess Jonassen (40 lakh), Tejal Hasabnis and Chloe Tryon (30 lakh each) and Vrinda Dinesh (10 lakh).
• Mumbai Indians: with only 90 lakh to spend, the smallest purse of the five, they bought six uncapped Indians: Shweta Sehrawat (20 lakh) and Akshita Bhagat, Disha Kasat, Latika Inamdar, Bharti Rawal and Sanika Chalke (10 lakh each).

Scotland's Bryce and Gordon were cheap for a reason beyond form: Scotland is an Associate nation, so UP Warriorz and Delhi Capitals can field them as a fifth overseas player in the eleven if they choose.

The Hundred

The Hundred has played its men's and women's competitions on the same days at the same grounds since 2021, and in 2026 the two were combined into a single overall trophy as well. The 2025 sale of stakes in all eight teams to private investors, most of them IPL owners, changed the money: the women's salary budget per team doubled to £880,000 for 2026, and Beth Mooney and Sophie Devine were the top picks in the first auction at £210,000 each. Trent Rockets won the 2026 women's final at Lord's on 16 August, bowling SunRisers Leeds out for 91 and winning by eight wickets for their first title. The ECB has not yet published 2027 dates; the 2026 fixtures came out in late January. Our guide to the Hundred teams lists the new owners and names.

Women's Caribbean Premier League

Launched in 2022 and played alongside the men's CPL. Jamaica Empress joined as a fourth team in 2026, and the whole tournament was played in Barbados in September. Guyana Amazon Warriors won their first title on 17 September, beating Trinbago Knight Riders by two wickets with three balls left after being 71 for six, ending the run of the Barbados side, now renamed Barbados Tridents, who had won the three previous titles. No 2027 dates have been published.

England's Professional Domestic Structure

Below the Hundred, the ECB has run a professional women's county system since 2025. Eight Tier 1 counties started it, Yorkshire joined in 2026 to make nine, Glamorgan is due to join by 2027, and the ECB's stated aim is twelve professional teams by 2029. The Blaze, Nottinghamshire's women's side, won the domestic treble in 2026: the Vitality Blast, the T20 County Cup and the One Day Cup, the last of them with Emma Jones sweeping four off the final ball.

New and Planned Leagues

• Saudi Arabia: the Saudi federation and FairBreak announced a five-year deal in December 2025 for a women's T20 tournament from 2026, with players from more than 35 countries. Its first edition was delayed in 2026 because of regional tensions, and as of October 2026 no new date has been published.
• FairBreak Invitational: the independent tournament that preceded it was played in Dubai in 2022 and Hong Kong in 2023.
• A women's SA20: Cricket South Africa has said it wants a women's version of the SA20, but no launch has been confirmed.

The leagues feed an international game that is growing too: Australia beat England by seven wickets at Lord's on 5 July 2026 to win a record seventh Women's T20 World Cup, in front of nearly 29,000 spectators, under the captaincy of the same Sophie Molineux who topped the WPL auction.

Women's Cricket Shirts

We stock a small number of women's-fit franchise shirts, all pre-owned Big Bash kit: a Sydney Sixers match shirt and an Adelaide Strikers training shirt were in stock when this page was updated, with one size of each. They are listed individually rather than in a collection, so the quickest way to find them is a search for womens on the shop. Most of the rest of our choose your own shirts are unisex cuts.

FAQs: Women's Cricket Leagues

What are the main women's cricket leagues?
The Women's Big Bash League, the Women's Premier League, the women's Hundred and the Women's CPL, plus England's professional county structure.

Who was the most expensive player at the WPL 2027 auction?
Sophie Molineux, bought by UP Warriorz for 1.1 crore rupees on 28 October 2026. Kiran Navgire was the top Indian buy at 75 lakh, to Delhi Capitals.

Is Smriti Mandhana still the most expensive WPL player?
Yes. Her 3.4 crore from the 2023 auction is still the record auction bid, and the top price in 2027 was less than a third of it.

When does WPL 2027 start?
On 14 January 2027, with the final on 7 February. The venues had not been announced when this page was updated.

Who won the WPL in 2026?
Royal Challengers Bengaluru, beating Delhi Capitals by six wickets in the final on 5 February 2026.

Who won the women's Hundred in 2026?
Trent Rockets, their first title, beating SunRisers Leeds by eight wickets at Lord's.

Who won the WBBL most recently?
Hobart Hurricanes, in December 2025. They lost the opening match of WBBL|12 to Melbourne Stars on 29 October 2026.

How much do women earn in the Hundred?
Each team's women's salary budget doubled to £880,000 for 2026, and the top players went for £210,000 at the first auction.