{"id":9721,"date":"2025-11-27T16:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=664022"},"modified":"2025-11-27T16:12:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:42:02","slug":"wpl-2026-auction-deepti-sharma-becomes-second-most-expensive-player-ever-as-up-warriorz-use-rtm-to-secure-her-for-rs-3-2-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/wpl-2026-auction-deepti-sharma-becomes-second-most-expensive-player-ever-as-up-warriorz-use-rtm-to-secure-her-for-rs-3-2-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"WPL 2026 Auction: Deepti Sharma becomes second most expensive player ever as UP Warriorz use RTM to secure her for Rs 3.2 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"283\" data-end=\"631\">Deepti Sharma has created history once again at the WPL 2026 Auction in New Delhi. The India all-rounder became the <strong data-start=\"399\" data-end=\"465\">second most expensive player in Women\u2019s Premier League history<\/strong>, after UP Warriorz used their Right-to-Match (RTM) card and bought her back for <strong data-start=\"546\" data-end=\"562\">Rs 3.2 crore<\/strong>. The price is only behind Smriti Mandhana\u2019s record Rs 3.4 crore bid.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"633\" data-end=\"1053\">Deepti, who was <strong data-start=\"649\" data-end=\"707\">Player of the Tournament in the Women\u2019s World Cup 2025<\/strong>, had represented UP Warriorz in all three seasons since the league began. However, she was released ahead of the 2026 mega auction as the franchise entered a rebuilding phase. Delhi Capitals opened the bidding at her base price of Rs 50 lakh, but with no other team initially showing interest, UP Warriorz immediately exercised their RTM option.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1055\" data-end=\"1349\">The moment UP used their RTM, Delhi Capitals aggressively raised their bid all the way to <strong data-start=\"1145\" data-end=\"1161\">Rs 3.2 crore<\/strong>. UP Warriorz matched the price, securing their star all-rounder again for a fourth straight season. Deepti, who hails from Uttar Pradesh, returns to her home-state franchise for WPL 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1351\" data-end=\"1582\">The all-rounder was the <strong data-start=\"1375\" data-end=\"1414\">third player to go under the hammer<\/strong> on Thursday, making headlines with one of the biggest bids of the day. Her acquisition strengthens UP Warriorz significantly, both in leadership and all-round balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deepti Sharma has created history once again at the WPL 2026 Auction in New Delhi. The India all-rounder became the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":32269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721","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=9721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}