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Team India vice-captain Smriti Mandhanaa went into the record books after becoming the costliest buy at the inaugural auction for the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2023. In fact, she was the first player to be auctioned off at the bidding event which is taking place at the Jio World Convention Centre i꧒n Mumbai.
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) acquired her services for a whopp�✤�ing amount of ₹3.40 crore.
Mandhana, who was placed in the Marquee Set 1 with a base price of ₹50 lakh, induced an intense bidding war between Mumbai Indians (MI) and RCB. A swift set of bids for the left-handed batter soon breached ₹1 crore, ₹2 crore and ₹3 crore mark, before Nita Ambani’s MI pulled out of the race.
The 26-year-old Mandhana made his international debut in 2013 and was named ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year in 2018. She was also nominated in the top three for the ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of The Year in 2021 and 2022.
The left-handed batter ꦕhas scored 2651 runs in 112 T20Is so far which i🐼ncludes 20 centuries.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
Joi♕n u𝔉s in welcoming the first Royal Challenger, Smriti Mandhana! 😍
Welcome to RCB 🔥
— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets)
RCB ropes in Smriti Mandhana.
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
Welcome Smriti Mandhana into RCB Family 😍
— Kevin (@imkevin149)
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Welcome Queen
— Kumar Sourav (@AdamDhoni1)
Video of the day – celebration by Smriti & Indian team.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
Smriti Mandhana becomeꦆs the first player to be sold in the . 🏏
She goes to Bangalore for 3.40 CR.
— 100MB (@100MasterBlastr)
Marvelous Mandhanna goes for big 💸 in 👌
The sensational 🇮🇳 batter joins ✨
— JioCinema (@JioCinema)
Womenꦗ’s IPL auction throwing up head-spinning figures, have for a whopping Rs3.4 crore!
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah)
The first season of the WPL will be played at the DY Patil Stadium (🤪Mumbai) and Brabourne Stadium (Navi Mumbai) from March 3 to 26.
