Royal Challengers Bangalore women’s team captain Smriti Mandhana has become the most expensive player retained in the Women’s Premier League 2025 auction. Let us tell you that Royal Challengers Bangalore has retained a total of 14 players. Not only this, this franchise has also traded Daniel Whyte from UP Warriors. They will have four available slots in the upcoming auction.

Let us tell you that, before the first season of the Women’s Premier League, Royal Challengers Bangalore had included Smriti Mandhana in their team for Rs 3.4 crore. She was the most expensive player of this tournament. The Women’s Premier League has not yet had a mega auction and hence the franchises will have to sell their retained players at the price at which they bought them.

In the first season, under the captaincy of Smriti Mandhana, Royal Challengers Bangalore had a disappointing performance and the franchise could not make its place in the qualifiers. Many people had raised questions on Smriti Mandhana’s captaincy and batting. However, in the second season, she not only gave RCB their first trophy by performing brilliantly but Smriti Mandhana herself played an important role in her team’s victory.

Let us tell you that in the final of Women’s Premier League 2024, Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Delhi Capitals by 8 wickets. Batting first, the Delhi team was all out for 113 runs, in response to which Royal Challengers Bangalore won the target by 8 wickets.

List of players retained by Royal Challengers Bangalore:

retain

Smriti Mandhana (Captain)
Richa Ghosh
Renuka Thakur
Asha Shobhana
Shreyanka Patil
Ekta Bisht
S Meghna
alyce perry
Sophie Devine
Danny Wyatt (trade)
Georgia Wareham
Sophie Molyneux
kate cross
Kanika Ahuja

released

Disha Cassatt
Indrani Roy
nadin de clark
Shubha Satish
Shraddha Pokkar
Simran Bahadur
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