WPL Auction 2023: Shafali Verma joins Delhi Capitals for INR 2 crore after U-19 T20 World Cup heroics

Delhi Capitals have roped in Under-19 T20 World Cup profitable captain Shafali Verma for a worth of INR 2 crore for the inaugural season of the Women’s Premier League.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 13, 2023 16:14 IST

Shafali Verma joins Delhi Capitals (PTI)

By India Today Web Desk: Delhi Capitals have roped in Under-19 T20 World Cup profitable captain Shafali Verma for a worth of INR 2 crore for the inaugural season of the Women’s Premier League.

Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore had been a part of a bidding warfare earlier than Mumbai Indians got here in with a bid of INR 1.3 crore. However, Delhi Capitals persevered and bagged the participant for INR 2 crore.

The Delhi-based WPL facet took to Twitter to announce Shafali’s signing, welcoming her and saying they’re including one other U-19 World Cup profitable skipper to their ranks.

“Adding another U-19 World Cup winning skipper to our ranks. Welcome Shafali Verma,” DC posted on their Twitter account.

Shafali Verma is a proper handed batsman and made her worldwide debut in September 2019 in a ladies’s T20 match towards South Africa.

She was simply 15 years-old then. In November 2019, he turned the youngest to attain a fifty in worldwide cricket towards the West Indies. In the identical sequence of 5 T20 matches towards the West Indies, Shafali was additionally chosen because the ‘Player of the Series’ with 158 runs.

In October 2022, she turned the youngest participant to succeed in 1000 T20I runs, reaching the milestone in 43 matches.

Shafali is a rising star within the ladies’s cricket world and her household and coach expect her to carry out even higher.

Edited By:

Rounaq Sehrawat

Published On:

Feb 13, 2023