Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) ladies’s crew assistant head coach Malolan Rangarajan acknowledged that the crew is aiming to have just a few camps for the avid gamers ahead of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) season three public sale to be held this 12 months. RCB on Thursday launched the retention of 14 avid gamers, along with six overseas, ahead of the WPL 2025 public sale, with captain Smriti Mandhana, star batter Ellyse Perry, and wicket-keeper Richa Ghosh headlining the file of retainees of the championship-winning crew from this 12 months.
Speaking in a press launch by RCB, Malolan acknowledged about plans ahead of the WPL 2025 public sale, liable to be held in December, “What will happen between now and the auction is that we will have a couple of camps for our players and I would like to mention for the players of interest, which will help us inform creating our shortlist of players for the auction and hopefully even make it a little bit more certain as to who we need to target and who we could have as backups. So, with the auction in December, the plan would be to have a camp prior to the auction and hopefully get the team we are looking for.”
Talking regarding the thought behind WPL retention lists, Malolan acknowledged as a part of the educating workers, it is rather necessary keep in mind what labored for the crew remaining time on the sector and away from it. Also, he emphasised on retaining the crew’s core values, every on-field and off-field.
“So keeping those things in mind, we came up with the set of retentions. We have also thought really hard about how we wanted to recruit in the last auction and we brought in a couple of players with experience. So that has held together and given us a good core to go forward with,” he added.
RCB emerged as a result of the champions of the WPL 2024, beating DC by eight wickets inside the remaining.
Retained Players: Asha Shobana, Dani Wyatt, Ekta Bisht, Ellyse Perry, Georgia Wareham, Kanika Ahuja, Kate Cross, Renuka Singh, Richa Ghosh, S. Meghana, Shreyanka Patil, Smriti Mandhana, Sophie Devine, and Sophie Molineux.
Released Players: Disha Kasat, Indrani Roy, Shraddha Pokarkar, Shubha Satheesh, and Simran Bahadur.
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