Hailing from Mumbai, India all-rounder Simran Shaikh was roped in by Gujarat Giants Ladies (GG-W) within the WPL (Ladies’s Premier League) 2025 mini public sale held in Bengaluru on December 15, 2024. Shaikh was roped in by Giants for a large price ticket of INR 1.9 crore.
It’s value noting that Delhi Capitals Ladies and Gujarat Giants Ladies had been engaged in a bidding battle to safe Shaikh’s companies. Nonetheless, it was the Giants who swooped in with the successful bid and added a rising star to their ranks for the brand new season.
The franchise’s coach, Michael Klinger, got here ahead and talked concerning the facet’s targets within the mini public sale and opined that they managed to get each Dottin and Shaikh into their ranks after having them on their listing of targets.
“We’ve been watching the native competitions carefully, the T20s and the Challengers. She stands out by way of her hitting energy and strike charge, and enhances the opposite native Indian gamers [we’ve got in the squad]. To have somebody like her, probably in our prime six-seven, who can hit sixes immediately, completes us. We had been focusing on her,” Klinger instructed throughout the public sale break.
It’s fascinating to notice that Simran Shaikh has beforehand represented UP Warriorz within the WPL within the inaugural season of the match. The teenager performed 9 video games however solely managed to attain 29 runs with the very best rating of 11. She went unsold within the 2024 public sale.
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Talking of Gujarat Giants girls, the franchise has had two forgettable campaigns within the final two seasons of the WPL. Giants completed in fifth place within the standings within the inaugural season of the match, and adopted it up with one other last-place end within the WPL 2024. With two subpar seasons behind them, the facet will hope for some enchancment within the new season of the most-watched girls’s cricket league.
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