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WPL 2025 Auction: Gujarat Giants Sign Deandra Dottin For 1.7 Crore After Intense Battle

Aakash Saini

Deandra Dottin [Source: @ICC/x]Deandra Dottin [Source: @ICC/x]

West Indies all-rounder Deandra Dottin became the first cricketer to go under the hammer at the WPL 2025 auction on Sunday, December 15. As it turned out, the 33-year-old was acquired by the Gujarat Giants franchise for over three times her base value.

Dottin is currently in India as part of the West Indies cricket team for T20I and ODI series against the hosts.

Deandra Dottin to make her WPL debut in 2025

Deandra Dottin is set to make her Women’s Premier League (WPL) debut in the upcoming 2025 season as she was purchased by the Gujarat Giants franchise at the auction on Sunday, December 15. Becoming the first player to go under the hammer in the afternoon, Dottin was acquired for a staggering sum of Rs.1.70 crore, i.e., over three times her base price value of Rs.50 lakh.


Back in November, the Gujarat Giants franchise retained Beth Mooney, Laura Wolvaardt, Ashleigh Gardner, Phoebe Litchfield among several other cricketers. Under the leadership of Mooney, the Giants finished at the bottom of the WPL 2024 season earlier this year, as they lost six out of their eight league fixtures.

Nonetheless, Deandra Dottin made her return to international cricket for the West Indies in early 2024 for the Women’s T20 World Cup. She originally announced her retirement back in July 2022.

A veteran of 132 T20I matches for the West Indies, Dottin has also played 56 Women’s Big Bash League matches, and 29 matches combined in WCPL and Women’s The Hundred.

Deandra Dottin stats in T20Is

Deandra Dottin has hauled 2,817 runs in 130 T20I innings at a healthy batting average of 26.08. She has listed two centuries and 12 fifties in the process. With the ball, Dottin has snared 67 wickets at an average of 18.32, and while holding an impressive economy of just 6.39.