Smriti Mandhana of RCB in WPL Auction 2023, star player bid in crores

The process of auctioning players for the Women’s Premier League has begun in Mumbai. In the process of this auction being held at the Jio Convention Center in Mumbai, teams have included many domestic and foreign players in their ranks. The costliest player at the end of the first set auction was Indian opener and vice-captain Smriti Mandhana.

 

Smriti Mandhana, who entered the auction at a base price of just Rs 50 lakhs, was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 3.40 crores. This was the highest amount of money a player had been bought for in the first set. Please tell that Smriti Mandhana was the first player in Nimali. Mumbai Indians first bid to buy him, after which Delhi Capitals went ahead with the bid. However, Delhi backed out of the bid and both Mumbai-Bangalore were in the race to buy Smriti.

 

Finally, Smriti was bought by the Royal Challengers Bangalore team for Rs 3.40 crore. With this, Smriti became the first player to successfully bid for the Women’s Premier League. 

Please tell that Smriti Mandhana is included in the list of best batsmen in the world. She could not play against Pakistan in the first match of the ongoing T20 World Cup because of a hand injury. Smriti’s finger was injured and she is still recovering, so she was not included in the team for the match against Pakistan.

 

In fact, Smriti Mandhana could not even open her account against Australia in the practice match of the World Cup. His form at present has not been very good. Earlier, in the final match of the tri-series also, the pavilion returned on a duck score against South Africa.

 

Significantly, players from a total of 15 countries will be bid for the Women’s IPL. Apart from India, players from Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa, West Indies, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Ireland and Zimbabwe are included in this. While players from Hong Kong, Thailand, UAE, Netherlands and America have participated. A total of 409 players are available for bidding in the Women’s Premier League auction. There are 202 capped players and 199 uncapped players. Among the players, 246 are Indian and 163 are foreign players. Explain that apart from India, the maximum number of players are from the team of Australia (28) and England (27).