The Hundred Draft: Everything you need to know

'The Hundred' is a revolutionary, new 100-ball tournament recently formed by the England Cricket Board (ECB). The tournament will be played in July-August 2020. According to the ECB, the tournament will be played among eight teams from seven different cities. The teams which will compete in the competition are Birmingham Phoenix, London Spirit, Manchester Originals, Northern Superchargers, Oval Invincibles, Southern Brave, Trent Rockets and Welsh Fire. The draft will scheduled to take place on Sunday, October 20, 2019 at 11:30 pm IST and live on Sky's London studios and Sky's London studios app.

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ECB also revealed that all the teams are owned by the board, so there are no private owners for the teams. All the player selections will be made by the head coaches of the teams, which were selected earlier. However, the coach can take the help of their staff and analysts to do the needful as well. Given below is the list of teams and their head coaches.

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The Hundred: Teams and players

Every team has already picked up one England player. That was followed by selecting two local icons, who have been training in the new team's designated training areas. All the players were able to negotiate a salary with their teams and some even took a pay cut to get selected in the team. However, it should be noted that most of the Test players have already been taken by the teams, but players like Sam Billings, Joe Denly and Mark Wood will be available for selection during the draft.

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The Hundred: How the Draft works?

A random draw was done to decide the order of the first round. Stephen Fleming's Trent Rockets is set to pick the first player in the first round. In the second round, the order will be reserved and the last team will get the first chance to pick the player. The salaries of all the players have already been decided. According to British media reports, the first and second pick will be given £125,000 each, while the last few picks will be given £30,000 each. Every team will be given 100 seconds to make their pick when they are given a chance.

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