Highest Priced WPL Player: Smriti Mandhana RCB – Women’s Premier League Auction – WPL Auction – Indian destructive batter Smriti Mandhana stole the limelight of the inaugural WPL auction. The Indian opener was bought by RCB for a whopping sum of 3.4 Crores, the highest-priced player of the auction so far. Slotted in Set 1, Smriti Mandhana was the first player to go under the hammer. After fierce bidding from Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore, it was RCB who outpriced their rivals to rope in the star batter. Follow WPL Auction 2023 LIVE Updates with InsideSport.IN
Highest Priced WPL Player: Smriti Mandhana HIGHEST Priced player in WPL, Royal Challengers Bangalore SIGN Indian batter for Whopping 3.4 Crores – Check Out
Mandhana was slotted for a base price of 50 lakhs. Though Mumbai Indians expressed their desire to buy the Indian opener, it was the Bangalore outfits who went all guns blazing to buy the star batter.
Base Price: INR 50 Lakh
Goes to @RCBTweets: INR 3.40 Crore
How about that for the first-ever Player Bid in the history of the #WPLAuction! 👏 👏 pic.twitter.com/TYo51Auiz4
— Women’s Premier League (WPL) (@wplt20) February 13, 2023
Highest Priced WPL Player: Smriti Mandhana HIGHEST Priced player in WPL, Royal Challengers Bangalore SIGN Indian batter for Whopping 3.4 Crores – Check Out
“Everyone knows Mandhana and Perry, we were pretty committed to the couple of people we wanted to get. we’re very happy to get such quality players. it’s a dream result for us to get Mandhana, Perry and Devine. Smriti has got plenty of captaincy experience and is familiar with the Indian conditions so highly likely she’ll be captain,” said Mike Hesson.
Another unique feature of this buying of Mandhana bears a huge similarity with Virat Kohli with RCB. Both batters are known for their aggressive and destructive batting styles. Coincidentally, both wear the No. 18 jersey.
Highest Priced WPL Player: Smriti Mandhana HIGHEST Priced player in WPL, Royal Challengers Bangalore SIGN Indian batter for Whopping 3.4 Crores – Check Out
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