"It's hard to explain an auction to your friends...they're like, 'all that money is yours?'
18.03.26, 15:51 Updated 18.03.26, 16:01
Rich Edwards
It was male-heavy in the Hundred's auction room in Piccadilly Circus last week, but it will still go down as one of the most significant in the history of women's sport.
The atrium of the Utilita Bowl seems a world away. A local sixth-form college has just turned up for a net session. The likes of Ali Orr, Giles White, Paul Prichard, and Jimmy Adams busy themselves in the watery March sunshine.
Hampshire's Daisy Gibb and Ella McCaughan, meanwhile, are smiling broadly, recalling an auction which didn't transform their lives materially, but certainly gave an indication of what might be possible in the future.
"We were together, actually, weren't we?" says Gibb. "I feel like at the start of the day, we were saying, 'Oh, we probably won't watch it—it's fine, it will be on all day.'"
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