Steve Smith and David Warner lead 570-strong player list for The Hundred draft

The Australian pair are two of the six players who will be available for £125,000 – the maximum price bracket available to the eight teams

Steve Smith and David Warner have been placed in the top price bracket ahead of The Hundred draft on Sunday.

The Australian pair are two of the six players who will be available for £125,000 – the maximum option available to the eight teams.

As well as Smith and Warner, the quartet of Mitchell Starc, Chris Gayle, Lasith Malinga and Kagiso Rabada make up the premier band.

Seventeen players feature in the next bracket down, where a £100,000 base price applies. This means that they may only be picked up in either of the first two financial rounds of the draft; each team is entitled to two players in the £125,000 band and two more in the £100,000 category.

Bangladesh allrounder Shakib Al Hasan, Afghanistan leg-spinner Rashid Khan and New Zealand captain Kane Williamson are among those available in that bracket.

Pakistan star Babar Azam, who enjoyed a fruitful T20 campaign with Somerset last season, has been handed a base price of just £75,000, along with South Africa great Dale Steyn.

Pakistani veterans Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik and Wahab Riaz are both available at a minimum price of £60,000, along with rising star Shaheen Afridi. Fakhar Zaman, meanwhile, is available for £40,000, with Imam-ul-Haq put forward without a reserve price.

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Domestically, just 19 out of the 330 players who have entered their names into the draft have done so with a reserve price on them.

England’s Joe Denly has a £60,000 tag on his name, as do Mark Wood, Samit Patel and Lancashire allrounder Liam Livingstone.

Ian Bell, Morne Morkel and Liam Plunkett are among the seven county players with a £50,000 reserve price on their availability, while 18-year-old Kent off-spinner Hamidullah Qadri is one of eight players with a £40,000 base value. He is joined by Hardus Viljoen, who represented Kent in last season’s Vitality Blast, among others.

The remaining 311 domestic players, therefore, have no reserve price and could be picked up in any round. There are very few who appear not to have entered the draft, though Essex’s red-ball opening pair of Alastair Cook and Nick Browne are both absent.

^{Joe Denly is one of 19 domestic players to carry a reserve price}

240 overseas players from around the world who have put their names forward for the draft, which also includes applicants from Ireland – in Paul Stirling and Boyd Rankin, as well as Dutchmen Max O’Dowd, Michael Rippon and Tobias Visee, and USA’s Ali Khan.

The draft takes place on Sunday evening, with each team selecting 12 players each on the night to supplement the three Test player and local icon picks already made at the initial launch.