Royal Challengers Bangalore ended up with a star-studded squad on the finish of the Girls’s Premier League (WPL) public sale on Monday with India opener Smriti Mandhana turning into the highest-paid cricketer in the whole course of with Rs 3.4 crore. The workforce additionally boasted of proficient Staff India gamers like Renuka Singh and Richa Ghosh whereas Sophie Devine and Ellyse Perry present the assist on the worldwide expertise entrance. Together with the youth on supply, the RCB franchise additionally made two sensible picks in signing the skilled duo of Heather Knight and Dane van Niekerk for his or her respective base costs.

“Everybody is aware of Mandhana and (Australia’s Elysse) Perry — Rs 1.7 crore); we had been fairly dedicated to the couple of individuals we wished to get. We’re very glad to get such high quality gamers. It is a dream consequence for us to get Mandhana, Perry and (Sophie) Devine (Rs 50 lakh),” RCB Director of Cricket Mike Hesson stated throughout a media interplay.

“Smriti has bought loads of captaincy expertise and is accustomed to the Indian circumstances, so extremely doubtless (she’ll be the captain).” Mandhana, who watched the public sale along with her workforce cheering every bid, was ecstatic.

“We have now been watching public sale of males’s (gamers). It’s such an enormous second for girls to have an public sale of this kind. The entire thing is exacting. RCB’s legacy is huge, they’ve constructed an enormous fan-base. Hope we each can collectively construct an enormous workforce,” Mandhana stated.

RCB Full Squad:Smriti Mandhana (INR 3.4 crore), Sophie Devine (INR 50 lakh), Ellyse Perry (INR 1.7 crore), Renuka Singh (INR 1.5 crore), Richa Ghosh (INR 1.9 crore), Erin Burns (INR 30 lakh), Disha Kasat (INR 10 lakh), Indrani Roy (INR 10 lakh), Shreyanka Patil (INR 10 lakh), Kanika Ahuja (35 lakh), Asha Shobana (INR 10 lakh), Heather Knight (INR 40 lakh), Dane van Niekerk (INR 30 lakh), Preeti Bose (INR 30 lakh), Poonam Khemnar (INR 10 lakh), Komal Zanzad (INR 25 lakh), Megan Schutt (INR 40 lakh), Sahana Pawar (INR 10 lakh)

(With PTI inputs)

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