The Men's Hundred 2026 auction, live updates: Players sold, unsold, latest purse and complete squads

Batters, fast bowlers, spinners and all-rounders are all part of the next lot.

Birmingham Phoenix: Jacob Bethell (retained), Rehan Ahmed (direct signing), Mitch Owen (direct signing), Donovan Ferreira (direct signing).

London Spirit: Jamie Overton (retained), Liam Livingstone (direct signing), Adam Zampa (direct signing), Dewald Brevis (direct signing), Jonny Bairstow.

Manchester Super Giants: Jos Buttler (retained), Noor Ahmad (retained), Heinrich Klaasen (retained), Liam Dawson (direct signing), Aiden Markram.

MI London: Sam Curran (retained), Will Jacks (retained), Rashid Khan (retained), Nicholas Pooran (direct signing), James Vince.

Southern Brave: Jofra Archer (retained), Jamie Smith (direct signing), Marcus Stoinis (direct signing), Tristan Stubbs (direct signing), Adil Rashid, David Miller.

Sunrisers Leeds: Harry Brook (retained), Brydon Carse (retained), Mitchell Marsh (direct signing), Nathan Ellis (direct signing).

Trent Rockets: Tom Banton (retained), Ben Duckett (direct signing), Tim David (direct signing), Mitchell Santner (direct signing).

Welsh Fire: Chris Woakes (retained), Phil Salt (direct signing), Rachin Ravindra (direct signing), Marco Jansen (direct signing), Joe Root, Jordan Cox.

Birmingham Phoenix: None

London Spirit: Jonny Bairstow

Manchester Super Giants: Aiden Markram

MI London: James Vince

Southern Brave: Adil Rashid, David Miller

Sunrisers Leeds: None

Trent Rockets: None

Welsh Fire: Joe Root, Jordan Cox

Birmingham Phoenix: £1,027,000

London Spirit: £867,000

Manchester Super Giants: £827,000

MI London: £837,000

Southern Brave: £667,000

Sunrisers Leeds: £1,027,000

Trent Rockets: £1,027,000

Welsh Fire: £487,000

They beat competition from the Trent Rockets.

London Spirit were the other side that showed interest in Vince.

They outbid the Sunrisers for the wicketkeeper-batter's signing.

They beat competition from the Sunrisers.

The Super Giants and Southern Brave began proceedings for Root, before the Welsh Fire and Sunrisers took over.

Richard Madley will manage the proceedings today as well.

They also have just two overseas slots each left, so expect a lot of big international names to go unsold.

Here's how the auction rules work.

Trent Rockets: Sophia Dunkley (direct signing), Ash Gardner (retained), Kim Garth (direct signing), Nat Sciver-Brunt (retained), Beth Mooney, Ailsa Lister, Bess Heath, Millicent Taylor, Emma Jones, Georgia Elwiss, Katie Levick, Charley Phillips, Georgia Adams, Samantha Bates, Grace Johnson.

Southern Brave: Lauren Bell (retained), Maia Bouchier (retained), Jemimah Rodrigues (direct signing), Laura Wolvaardt (retained), Sarah Glenn, Sophie Molineux, Lizelle Lee, Issy Wong, Tilly Corteen-Coleman, Jodi Grewcock, Rebecca Odgers, Phoebe Franklin, Daisy Gibb, Ellie Anderson.

London Spirit: Charlie Dean (retained), Mahika Gaur (direct signing), Grace Harris (retained), Marizanne Kapp (direct signing), Amy Jones, Nadine De Klerk, Deandra Dottin, Seren Smale, Charis Pavely, Sterre Kalis, Marie Kelly, Josephine Groves, Phoebe Turner.

Birmingham Phoenix: Alice Capsey (direct signing), Lauren Filer (direct signing), Lucy Hamilton (direct signing), Ellyse Perry (retained), Davina Perrin, Tammy Beaumont, Emma Lamb, Linsey Smith, Alana King, Cordelia Griffith, Eva Gray, Phoebe Brett, Jemima Spence, Esmae Macgregor, Annerie Dercksen, Eve O'Neill.

Manchester Super Giants: Sophie Ecclestone (retained), Meg Lanning (direct signing), Smriti Mandhana (direct signing), Grace Ballinger, Maitlan Brown, Kathryn Bryce, Richa Ghosh, Paige Scholfield, Grace Scrivens, Mady Villiers, Ryana MacDonald-Gay, Jo-Anne Gardner, Natasha Wraith, Rebecca Tyson.

MI London: Melie Kerr (direct signing), Hayley Matthews (direct signing), Danni Wyatt-Hodge (direct signing), Chinelle Henry, Kirstie Gordon, Hollie Armitage, Nicola Carey, Alice-Davidson Richards, Alice Monaghan, Alexa Stonehouse, Kira Chathli, Tara Norris, Ellie Threlkeld, Kalea Moore, Danielle Gregory.

Sunrisers Leeds: Kate Cross (retained), Phoebe Litchfield (retained), Annabel Sutherland (retained), Danielle Gibson, Deepti Sharma, Bryony Smith, Jess Jonassen, Hannah Baker, Lauren Winfield-Hill, Cassidy McCarthy, Maddie Ward, Rachel Slater, Florence Miller, Claudie Cooper.

Welsh Fire: Freya Kemp (direct signing), Georgia Voll (direct signing), Georgia Wareham (direct signing), Sophie Devine, Sophia Smale, Em Arlott, Ella McCaughan, Sarah Bryce, Grace Potts, Heather Graham, Fi Morris, Abi Norgrove, Grace Thompson, Rhianna Southby.

With Narine having pulled out, there are now only nine marquee players in the men's auction.

With five players pulling out, there are now 238 men on the auction longlist. You can go through the full list here.

All eight teams made four pre-auction signings each, and enter the auction with identical purse.

Birmingham Phoenix: £1,027,000

London Spirit: £1,027,000

Manchester Super Giants: £1,027,000

MI London: £1,027,000

Southern Brave: £1,027,000

Sunrisers Leeds: £1,027,000

Trent Rockets: £1,027,000

Welsh Fire: £1,027,000

Shaheen Afridi, Quinton de Kock, Sunil Narine, AM Ghazanfar and Peter Siddle have all withdrawn from the auction, as per ESPNCricinfo.

The men's players will be going under the hammer today.

The first-ever Men's Hundred auction will be held on Thursday (March 12). It will take place at the same venue as the women's auction, the Piccadilly Lights in central London.

It will start at 10 am local time (3:30 pm India time, 3 pm Pakistan time).