Cross had spoken to the Originals forward of the draft, who gave her a verbal make it possible for they might signal her for £25,000 with their 2d pick out if she used to be nonetheless to be had. But the Superchargers gazumped them by the use of their first pick out to signal her for £31,250.
Cross has spent her complete profession enjoying for Lancashire or groups affiliated with them, like Thunder and the Originals. “It’s just such a big thing to get my head around, the fact that I won’t be playing in the environment that I’ve grown up playing in,” she mentioned. “For a long time, all my cricket has been in one environment, one club, one place.
“And then I’m simply over the Pennines! It’s going to be bizarre enjoying towards Manchester; it is going to be so bizarre no longer enjoying for Manchester.”
“To watch your self actually get offered live to tell the tale TV, and for a value that somebody values you at… I will’t even describe that feeling.”
Cross on the women’s Hundred draft being broadcast publicly
Thursday’s draft was the first time that a recruitment process in the women’s Hundred has been broadcast publicly, and Cross said it had been difficult to deal with hearing about a surprise move at the same time as the rest of the world.
“It’s so unusual to determine information at the identical time as everybody else,” she said. “Whenever we typically get this information, we discover out two weeks earlier than it is going out to the public: choices, all that more or less stuff.
“It comes out in public and you’ve dealt with it, you’ve processed it, whereas we found out when everyone else found out, which is the thing I’m struggling with the most.
“To watch your self actually get offered live to tell the tale TV, and for a value that somebody values you at… I will’t even describe that feeling.”
Each women’s staff in the Hundred has 8 showed avid gamers after Thursday’s draft. They will now fill their squads over the coming months, with their closing contracts agreed mutually on the open marketplace.