Smriti Mandhana was the most expensive player in WPL 2023, could not make a splash in the tournament
The journey of the Royal Challengers Bangalore team in the inaugural edition of Women’s Premier League 2023 has come to an end on 21st March. The team of Royal Challengers Bangalore was already out of the tournament. At the same time, Royal Challengers Bangalore could not win the last match played against Mumbai Indians. In this match, Bangalore, playing under the leadership of Smriti Mandhana, had to face defeat by four wickets from Mumbai Indians.
The Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) team scored 125 runs for nine wickets in the Women’s Premier League (WPL) T20 match, batting first against Mumbai Indians here on Tuesday. Richa Ghosh played an aggressive inning of 29 runs in 13 balls for RCB. Ellyse Perry also contributed 29 runs. Amelia Kerr took three wickets for 22 runs in four overs for Mumbai.
And later, coming out to bat, Mumbai Indians defeated RCB by four wickets. The Mumbai team achieved the target set by RCB for the loss of six wickets in 16.3 overs. Amelia Kerr contributed the most unbeaten 31 runs for Mumbai.
flop memory
The responsibility of captaining the Royal Challengers Bangalore team was given to Smriti Mandhana, the veteran player of the Indian team. In this tournament, Smriti Mandhana was given a place in the team by Bangalore for Rs 3.4 crore with many expectations. Smriti could not show any power of her bat or captaincy skills in this tournament. Smriti, who made headlines on the basis of her bat in international cricket, could not achieve any achievement in the format of Women’s Premier League of T20 cricket. In this tournament, Smriti was also out of the list of top 15 top players who scored most runs.
longing for a half century
Smriti Mandhana specializes in getting rid of the sixes of the bowlers through her bat. But his performance in the Premier League has been disappointing. While captaining Bangalore, Smriti scored a total of 149 runs in eight matches. His highest score was 37 runs. Smriti has hit only 22 fours and three sixes in the entire tournament. This season has proved to be very bad for Smriti Mandhana as a player and as the captain of Bangalore.
