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Manchester Super Giants have added a 12th player to their squad with the signing of Jo Gardner for £17,000 before the auction takes another break - which by the way is being called 'strategic timeouts'.

Each team must sign a minimum of 14 players and a maximum of 16 - with a cap of four overseas stars.

The teams will be devising their plans during this pause as they fine‑tune tactics and weigh up their final moves as we head into the decisive closing stages of this auction.

Kieran Parmley
CricViz analyst

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Welsh Fire filled their wicketkeeper spot with the reliable Sarah Bryce - no keeper has been involved in more dismissals in the history of the Women's Hundred than Bryce's 36 overall (21 catches & 15 stumpings).

Wicketkeeper Lauren Winfield-Hill went unsold during the hero player auction but has now been picked up by Sunrisers Leeds for £27,500 in the ranked player auction.

• Jodi Grewcock - £30,000 to Southern Brave
• Millicent Taylor - £27,500 to Trent Rockets
• Lauren Winfield-Hill - £27,500 to Sunrisers Leeds
• Heather Graham - £27,500 to Welsh Fire
• Eva Gray - £30,000 to Birmingham Phoenix

Kieran Parmley
CricViz analyst

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After going light on spending in the earlier rounds, MI London have spent big money on batter Kira Chathli.

She amassed 220 runs last season at an impressive 150 strike rate and will be expected to get MI London off to a fast start alongside Hayley Matthews and Danni Wyatt-Hodge in the top order.

Kieran Parmley
CricViz analyst

Ryana MacDonald-Gay completes the Manchester Super Giants pace attack alongside Grace Ballinger and Maitlan Brown. MacDonald-Gay has an exceptional slower ball that makes her a tricky customer at the death, she's taken 11 of her 20 wickets in the Hundred with slower balls at an average of just 13.

Cordelia Griffith - £27,500 to Birmingham Phoenix

Alice Monaghan - £27,500 to MI London

Alexa Stonehouse - £42,500 to MI London

Kira Chathli - £80,000 to MI London

Grace Potts - £15,000 to Welsh Fire

It's a hat-trick for MI London.

They sign Alice Monaghan (£27,500), Alexa Stonehouse (£42,500) and Kira Chathli (£80,000) on the trot.

They have now got 11 players in their squad - four of them overseas stars.

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Cordelia Griffith has played for Manchester Originals, Oval Invincibles and London Spirit at The Hundred.

The 30-year-old will have a fourth different Hundred side in 2026 after going to Birmingham Phoenix for £27.500.

Ryana MacDonald-Gay - £75,000 to Manchester Super Giants

Ella McCaughan - £30,000 to Welsh Fire

Sarah Bryce - £25,000 to Welsh Fire

Ailsa Lister - £30,000 to Trent Rockets

Bess Heath - £32,500 to Trent Rockets

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Scotland international Sarah Bryce saw her sister Kathryn join Manchester Super Giants earlier today.

Sarah, meanwhile, will wear the colours of Welsh Fire in 2026 after they succeeded with a £25,000 bid.

The Cardiff-based side also acquire 23-year-old batter Ella MaCaughan for £30,000.

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The ranked player auction begins with former Oval Invincibles all-rounder Ryana MacDonald-Gay.

Sunrisers Leeds show early interest, but Manchester Super Giants push harder to secure the 22-year-old's services for £75,000.

We wrapped up the hero player auction in the first session and we now move on to the ranked player auction.

Following the conclusion of the hero player auction, teams would have nominated 25 players each and the most popular from those nominations will be classed as ranked players.

These can consist of any players from the auction longlist, including hero players who were not signed in the first round.

These players will come up next in the auction with players receiving most nominations up for sale first.

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The sums spent on the likes of Danielle Gibson, Issy Wong and Tilly Cortneen-Coleman today are a huge increase on a salaries available to women in the first season of the Hundred in 2021, when the highest wage available was £15,000.

The top-earning women in 2025 had a salary of £65,000.

The lowest base price for women in the auction is £15,000, and there was criticism over "disparity" from Sam Billings, a Hundred-winning captain with Oval Invincibles, now MI London.

"Auction will always only benefit a few and probably deserved for those few players," Billings wrote on X.

"However, the disparity is too much. The draft structure was clearly far better from an overall player standpoint. As players we did feed this back."

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport cricket correspondent at The Hundred Auction

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All-rounder Danielle Gibson, pace bowler Issy Wong and 18-year-old spinner Tilly Cortneen-Coleman received deals in excess of £100,000 in the inaugural Hundred auction earlier today.

In the first auction of its kind in a major British sport, the English youngsters were among the biggest sales.

Australia wicketkeeper Beth Mooney and former New Zealand captain Sophie Devine attracted the highest prices, bought for £210,000 by Trent Rockets and Welsh Fire respectively.

Gibson, 24, went for £190,000 to Sunrisers Leeds despite suffering with a back injury in recent times, while 23-year-old Wong was bought for £130,000 by Southern Brave.

But it was the £105,000 deal for Courtneen-Coleman that caught the eye. The left-armer has had two seasons with Southern Brave and was part of the team beaten in last year's final by Northern Superchargers.

Brave had to compete with London Spirit and MI London to take the England Under-19 international back to Southampton.

Spinner Linsey Smith, all-rounder Em Arlott and batter Paige Scholfield were among the other players to attract fees in excess of £100,000.

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Welcome back as the first-ever Hundred auction is about to resume after the lunch break.

The next wave of players are set to go under the hammer at Piccadilly Light in London.

So stick with us as there will be plenty more twists, bids and big moves still to come.

The Hundred auction in London is taking a lunch break which means we will also be hitting the pause on our live coverage here for now.

But we’ll be back from 14:00 GMT when the next set of players go under the hammer.

We’re parking the live for the moment but we hope to see you right back here when the action resumes.

Birmingham Phoenix

• Alice Capsey, £130,000
• Ellyse Perry, £100,000
• Linsey Smith, £100,000
• Lauren Filer, £95,000
• Tammy Beaumont, £70,000
• Davina Perrin, £50,000
• Alana King, £37,500
• Lucy Hamilton £35,000
• Emma Lamb, £27,500

London Spirit

• Nadine de Klerk, £170,000
• Marizanne Kapp, £130,000
• Charlie Dean, £85,000
• Mahika Gaur, £75,000
• Grace Harris, £70,000
• Amy Jones, £70,000
• Deandra Dottin, £37,500
• Seren Smale, £15,000
• Lucy Higham, £15,000

Manchester Super Giants

• Paige Scholfield, £115,000
• Sophie Ecclestone, £110,000
• Meg Lanning, £95,000
• Smriti Mandhana, £90,000
• Kathryn Bryce, £65,000
• Richa Ghosh, £50,000
• Mady Villiers, £45,000
• Grace Ballinger, £42,500
• Maitlan Brown, £40,000
• Grace Scrivens, £40,000

MI London

• Hayley Matthews, £120,000
• Danni Wyatt-Hodge, £110,000
• Nic Carey, £95,000
• Melie Kerr, £80,000
• Chinelle Henry, £70,000
• Kirstie Gordon, £55,000
• Hollie Armitage, £45,000
• Alice Davidson-Richards, £30,000

Southern Brave

• Lauren Bell, £140,000
• Issy Wong, £130,000
• Tilly Corteen-Coleman, £105,000
• Maia Bouchier, £85,000
• Laura Wolvaardt, £75,000
• Sarah Glenn, £75,000
• Jemimah Rodrigues, £60,000
• Sophie Molineux, £47,500
• Lizelle Lee, £27,500

Sunrisers Leeds

• Danielle Gibson, £190,000
• Annabel Sutherland, £130,000
• Phoebe Litchfield, £120,000
• Jess Jonassen, £110,000
• Kate Cross £50,000
• Deepti Sharma, £27,500
• Bryony Smith, £27,500
• Hannah Baker, £18,000

Trent Rockets

• Beth Mooney, £210,000
• Nat Sciver-Brunt, £140,000
• Ash Gardner, £100,000
• Sophia Dunkley, £78,000
• Kim Garth, £42,000

Welsh Fire

• Sophie Devine, £210,000
• Freya Kemp, £120,000
• Em Arlott, £110,000
• Georgia Wareham, £100,000
• Georgia Voll, £80,000
• Sophia Smale, £20,000

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The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and the eight Hundred teams issued a statement recently asserting no-one will "be excluded on the grounds of their nationality" after BBC Sport reported the four franchises with owners linked to the Indian Premier League (IPL) would not consider players from Pakistan.

There are 14 representatives from Pakistan in the men's auction and it is the third-most from an overseas country, behind 19 from South Africa and 18 from Australia.

In today's women's auction, there are two Pakistan players Sadia Iqbal and Fatima Sana - cut from four initial nominations - who are both in the long list of players who will be auctioned when we return after the lunch break.

The 2026 edition of The Hundred will begin on 21 July and run until 16 August.

Mi London and Sunrisers Leeds will face each other in a men's and women's double-header at the Oval in the tournament opener.