With South Africa’s T20 league starting on January 10 clubs may favour drafting players who have also committed to the ILT20 as opposed to those who will go to South Africa given they are likely to be available for almost all of the home and away season.
A number of players will be available as retention picks including Crawley (Hurricanes), Billings (Heat), Clarke (Stars), Vince (Sixers), Curran (Sixers), Banton (Heat) and Willey (Thunder) even though he withdrew last year after being drafted.
Brook, Lawrence, Jacks, and Malan have all played in the BBL previously but do not fit the criteria to be retained as they did not play for a minimum of two seasons with a club previously after not playing last season.
Kapp was outstanding for Scorchers in her last two seasons but Devine is a two-time WBBL player of the year and Scorchers captain. Devine has also been involved in Western Australia’s WNCL team which is closely linked to the Scorchers program, making the decision even more difficult.
WBBL nominations: Chamari Athapaththu, Tammy Beaumont, Lauren Bell, Yastika Bhatia, Anneke Bosch, Tazmin Brits, Alice Capsey, Kate Cross, Freya Davies, Nadine de Klerk, Harleen Deol, Sophie Devine, Kate Ebrahim, Sophie Ecclestone, Hurley Gala, Richa Ghosh, Sarah Glenn, Shabnim Ismail, Hayley Jensen, Frances Jonas, Marizanne Kapp, Harmanpreet Kaur, Jess Kerr, Heather Knight, Veda Krishnamurthy, Emma Lamb, Kate Levick, Sune Luus, Hayley Matthews, Shika Pandey, Shreyanka Patil, Karishma Ramharack, Sneh Rana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Fatima Sana, Meghna Singh, Renuka Thakur, Chloe Tryon, Dane van Niekerk, Pooja Vastrakar, Mady Villiers, Lauren Winfield-Hill, Laura Wolvaardt, Issy Wong, Danielle Wyatt, Radha Yadav.
BBL nominations: Rehan Ahmed, Gus Atkinson, Tom Banton, Sam Billings, Joshua Bishop, Harry Brook, Joe Clarke, Sheldon Cottrell, Zak Crawley, Tom Curran, Marchant de Lange, Faf du Plessis, Laurie Evans, Shafiqullah Ghadfari, Richard Gleeson, Martin Guptill, Alex Hales, Beuran Hendricks, Akeal Hosein, Will Jacks, Chris Jordan, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Dan Lawrence, Josh Little, Dawid Malan, Tymal Mills, Colin Munro, Izharulhaq Naveed, Jimmy Neesham, Callum Parkinson, Matt Parkinson, Wayne Parnell, David Payne, Nicholas Pooran, Ollie Pope, Matt Potts, Rilee Rossouw, Lakshan Sandakan, Jayden Seales, Tabraiz Shamsi, Ramon Simmonds, Olly Stone, Imran Tahir, Josh Tongue, Reece Topley, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, James Vince, David Willey, Luke Wood, Dan Worrall.