All of the Tier 2 players have now come up in the auction and here's how it has panned out:

Tier 2 batters:

• Tom Kohler-Cadmore - £80,00 to Welsh Fire
• Joe Clarke - £85,000 to Birmingham Phoenix
• Leus du Plooy - £120,000 to Manchester Super Giants
• Tom Abell - unsold
• Will Smeed - £55,000 to Birmingham Phoenix

Tier 2 fast bowlers:

• Trent Boult - £100,000 to MI London
• Chris Jordan - £160,000 to Southern Brave
• David Payne - £130,000 to Trent Rockets
• Olly Stone - unsold
• Matthew Potts - £75,000 to Sunrisers Leeds

Tier 2 all-rounders:

• Saim Ayub - unsold
• James Coles - £390,000 to London Spirit
• Dan Lawrence - £210,000 to Sunrisers Leeds
• Ben Dwarshuis - unsold
• Lewis Gregory - £55,000 to Trent Rockets

Tier 2 spin bowlers:

• Abrar Ahmed - £190,000 to Sunrisers Leeds
• Keshav Maharaj - unsold
• Nathan Sowter - £130,000 to MI London
• Mason Crane - £31,000 to London Spirit
• Tom Hartley - £35,000 to Manchester Super Giants

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Pakistan leg-spinner Abrar Ahmed is the final player in this set before we break for lunch.

Trent Rockets are in for the bowler but Sunrisers Leeds, owned by Chennai-based Sun Group, also register interest.

He is finally sold to Sunrisers for £190,000 after a lengthy back and forth.

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CricViz analyst

London Spirit snap up Mason Crane for his base price - Crane didn't feature in the Hundred last season but overall he's taken 22 wickets in the Hundred at an average of 22, albeit with a slightly expensive economy rate of 1.45 runs per ball.

After South Africa spinner Keshav Maharaj goes unsold, Mason Crane joins London Spirit for £31,000.

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CricViz analyst

Tom Hartley becomes the third bowler to return to Manchester Super Giants following their change of ownership.

Hartley may have to play second fiddle to Liam Dawson but he has shown a real strength bowling to right-handers in the Hundred, taking 24 wickets at an average of just 17.

Manchester Super Giants re-sign Tom Hartley in a deal worth £35,000.

The Lancashire-born left-arm spinner will feel right at home at Old Trafford.

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CricViz analyst

Nathan Sowter returns to the Oval to play for new owners at MI London - he's taken 29 wickets in the Hundred at an average of just 22 and has been strong against both left and right handers, averaging 21 against southpaws compared to 23 against right handers.

He completes the MI London spin trio of last season, alongside Will Jacks and Rashid Khan.

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Leg-spinner Nathan Sowter is the first player on sale in this set.

MI London and Trent Rockets are both interested before the latter decides to take a step back.

It means Sowter will be a MI London player for £130,000, returning to the Oval where he has played The Hundred since the tournament's inception in 2021.

Our final set before the lunch break is the Tier 2 spinners. Here's who is available:

• Abrar Ahmed
• Keshav Maharaj
• Nathan Sowter
• Mason Crane
• Tom Hartley

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CricViz analyst

Sunrisers Leeds use their leftover cash after missing out on James Coles to break the £200,000 mark for Dan Lawrence - he's yet to light the Hundred on fire averaging just 18 across 30 innings in the Hundred while striking at 135. He's also reached fifty just once.

Sunrisers Leeds and Birmingham Phoenix get involved in a bidding war for all-rounder Dan Lawrence.

Manchester Super Giants also register late interest but it's the Leeds outfit who sign the 28-year-old for £210,000.

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CricViz analyst

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Age: 21

Role: Right-hand bat, left-arm spin

Team: London Spirit

James Coles has become the most expensive player in today's auction after London Spirit signed him for £390,000.

The Sussex all-rounder looks to be an England player in the making.

Across 29 T20 innings since the start of 2025, Coles has averaged 32 with the bat while striking at 156, an exceptional record while batting in the middle order. Coles is a slightly stronger player of spin than pace, averaging 38 against spin while striking at 162, a unique skillset for a local player in the men's Hundred.

Coles is also a more than capable left-arm spinner, taking 28 wickets at 26 with an economy rate of 8.18 since the start of last year.

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CricViz analyst

Lewis Gregory returns to Trent Rockets having captained them to the title back in 2022 - the 33-year-old all-rounder strikes at 140 down the order with the bat as well as bowling economically through the middle overs, conceding at 1.39 runs per ball providing plenty of balance to the side alongside pre-signing Mitchell Santner.

Lewis Gregory has joined Trent Rockets for £55,000.

Gregory made his T20I debut for England in 2019 and played nine international games in the format and was with Manchester Originals during the 2025 campaign.

The £390,000 that James Coles has just fetched from London Spirit is comfortably the biggest fee paid today.

It is also the fourth most for any player in the 2026 tournament at this stage behind Harry Brook (£465k), Phil Salt (£450k) and Jofra Archer (£400k).

That means he'll earn more than the likes of Jos Buttler, Jacob Bethell and Adil Rashid who were all part of England's T20 World Cup squad earlier this month.

It's a sign of how highly rated the 21-year-old is.

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CricViz analyst

London Spirit pay big money for James Coles at £390,000 and it's no surprise considering his rise in the last 12 months or so - Coles joins a power packed middle order already featuring pre-signings Dewald Brevis and Liam Livingstone, while Spirit are now packed with all-rounders with Coles adding to Livingstone, Jamie Overton and David Willey.

Australia's Ben Dwarshuis and Pakistan's Saim Ayub have no takers in the room and are unsold.

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James Coles, the 21-year-old all-rounder, became Sussex's youngest ever debut at the age of 16 in 2020.

He was part of the England squad for the 2022 Under-19 World Cup in the West Indies and was also in the England Lions squad for the tour of Australia in January 2025.

Coles will play for London Spirit in the 2026 Hundred after the Lord's-based outfit finally got their man for a whopping £390,000.

There is huge interest in the auction room for James Coles.

He entered today with a £75,000 base price, but a bidding war between Sunrisers Leeds and Trent Rockets took his value to £260,000.

And then London Spirit join the battle with a £270,000 as the paddles continue flying in the room.