{"id":23140,"date":"2025-12-30T17:02:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=675795"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:32:42","slug":"ellyse-perry-annabel-sutherland-pull-out-of-wpl-2026-rcb-dc-name-replacements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/wpl\/ellyse-perry-annabel-sutherland-pull-out-of-wpl-2026-rcb-dc-name-replacements\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellyse Perry, Annabel Sutherland pull out of WPL 2026; RCB, DC name replacements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian stars Ellyse Perry and Annabel Sutherland have withdrawn from the upcoming <strong>Women\u2019s Premier League (WPL) 2026<\/strong> season citing personal reasons, dealing a major setback to <strong>Royal Challengers Bengaluru<\/strong> and <strong>Delhi Capitals<\/strong> ahead of the tournament\u2019s fourth edition.<\/p>\n<p>Perry, who was set to turn out for RCB, and Sutherland, signed by Delhi Capitals, will not be available for the season. The franchises have announced replacements, with <strong>Sayali Satghare<\/strong> joining RCB at her reserve price of <strong>Rs 30 lakh<\/strong>, while <strong>Alana King<\/strong> has been roped in by Delhi Capitals for <strong>Rs 60 lakh<\/strong>. King, who represented UP Warriorz in the previous season, brings valuable experience, having picked up <strong>27 wickets in 27 T20 internationals<\/strong> for Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Perry\u2019s absence is expected to significantly impact RCB. The veteran all-rounder was instrumental in the franchise\u2019s title-winning campaign in 2024, finishing as the <strong>Orange Cap holder<\/strong> with <strong>347 runs at an average of 69.40<\/strong>, along with <strong>seven wickets<\/strong>. Despite RCB\u2019s injury-hit campaign in 2025, Perry remained consistent, scoring <strong>372 runs with four half-centuries<\/strong> in eight matches. She was retained by the franchise for <strong>Rs 2 crore<\/strong> ahead of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Annabel Sutherland had also played a key role in Delhi Capitals\u2019 run to the final last year, picking up <strong>nine wickets<\/strong> at an economy of <strong>7.57<\/strong>. She was retained by DC for <strong>Rs 2.2 crore<\/strong>, making her unavailability a notable loss for the side.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>UP Warriorz<\/strong> have also made a squad change after USA all-rounder <strong>Tara Norris<\/strong> was selected for the <strong>ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup Qualifier<\/strong> in Nepal, scheduled from January 18 to February 1. The franchise has signed uncapped Australian all-rounder <strong>Charli Knott<\/strong> as her replacement at a reserve price of <strong>Rs 10 lakh<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>WPL 2026<\/strong> season begins on <strong>January 9<\/strong>, with <strong>Mumbai Indians<\/strong> set to face <strong>Royal Challengers Bengaluru<\/strong> in the opening match at Navi Mumbai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian stars Ellyse Perry and Annabel Sutherland have withdrawn from the upcoming Women\u2019s Premier League (WPL) 2026 season citing personal\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":43287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wpl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}