Smriti Mandhana “Not Thinking About What Has Happened In RCB As A Franchise” | Cricket News

The Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2024 public sale has arrived, with the 5 franchises seeking to bolster their squads forward of subsequent 12 months’s occasion. The Smriti Mandhana-led Royal Challengers Bangalore have 5 vacant spots to fill of their group, with the main target being to construct a squad that helps them end higher than final season’s 4th. While RCB have a formidable group, it is the franchise’s ‘historical past’ general that is still an enormous topic of chatter amongst followers. Smriti Mandhaana, nevertheless, is not considering an excessive amount of about it.

In a chat with Sportskeeda, Mandhana mentioned that the outcomes RCB, as a franchise, has been getting up to now (within the Indian Premier League), is not one thing she or her teammates pay an excessive amount of consideration to. For them, it is a contemporary begin within the Women’s Premier League.

“For us as RCB women’s team, we are all starting it as new. We are not thinking about what has happened in terms of RCB as a franchise. Definitely, RCB is a massive franchise and the only thing more than pressure, if we go on to win the title, the kind of happiness that the loyal RCB fans will get is something which I am looking forward to.”

Mandhana additionally opened up on the rise of ladies’s cricket. While WPL’s arrival has prolonged girls’s cricket’s echelons within the sport additional, Smriti admitted that a whole lot of work has gone behind the scenes over the past 7-8 years.

“The change (in women’s cricket) has been massive in the last 7-8 years, but the massive change I would say is the way people are looking at women’s cricket and that is a really good thing. They are appreciating and criticizing us as well which is good because they feel attached to us. Apart from WPL and equal pay, I think this has been one massive change in the way people watch women’s cricket.”