Barrow’s Liam Livingstone will play for Birmingham Phoenix in next year’s inaugural The Hundred competition after being purchased during last Sunday night’s draft.

Livingstone was one of 96 players selected and he was one of those to earn a maximum £125,000 contract, meaning that for one month only the Lancashire all-rounder will swap Old Trafford for Edgbaston.

It is the latest lucrative contract the 26-year-old has earned after spells playing T20 cricket overseas for Karachi Kings and Rajasthan Royals earlier in the year. He will be playing in South Africa next month for Cape Town Blitz in the Mzansi Super League.

Livingstone’s clubmate at Lancashire, former Cumberland fast bowler Richard Gleeson, will be crossing the Pennines after he was picked for £60,000 by Headingley-based franchise Northern Superchargers, where Cumbria’s Ben Stokes will also be based.

Amongst the big names sold in the draft were Australians Steve Smith and Mitchell Starc, who will both play for Welsh Fire, while compatriot David Warner will be heading to Southern Brave. Afghanistan spinner Rashid Khan was the first player picked for the draft, and he will play for the Nottingham-based Trent Rockets.

West Indies’ Chris Gayle, Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga and South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada were among the 474 players unsold.