RCB ladies’s workforce captain and Indian ladies’s cricket workforce vice-captain Smriti Mandhana shared her views on the potential influence of a multi-city format for the Women’s Premier League (WPL) whereas talking on the an occasion in Bengaluru final week.
While reflecting on the success of the WPL, Smriti Mandhana expressed enthusiasm for the prospect of adopting a multi-city format on the first-of-its-kind summit that introduced collectively influential leaders from varied industries to delve into the way forward for sports activities. (WPL 2024 Auction On December 9: Check Venue, Team Purse, Number Of Players Retained Here)
“It can be nice to have WPL within the multi-city format. I believe that is perhaps the subsequent step and I’m positive the individuals proper right here would look into it and make it occur. As an RCB fan, I’d like to play in Chinnaswamy the place persons are chanting ‘RCB RCB’ and simply to be in that atmosphere. That is one thing which is one step forward for us that it (multi-city format) can attain to locations the place ladies’s cricket hasn’t reached and to get new viewers going into ladies’s cricket,” Mandhana commented.
The 27-year-old believes that the RCB Innovation Lab’s Leaders Meet India was a a lot wanted platform to know how totally different enterprise individuals take a look at sports activities as a platform to generate digital numbers and feels the occasion ought to occur extra typically to work together with different sports activities icons and enterprise high brass.
Ahead of the WPL public sale and the second season of the match, RCB’s captain Mandhana revealed the significance of a conducive atmosphere that the franchise has ready and she’s going to prioritize the time she spends with the workforce.
“A lot of thoughts have gone into what kind of combinations we need in terms of releases or retention. So we are really looking forward to the WPL auctions and hopefully, we get the players who we are looking forward to getting,” added Mandhana.
Speaking on the expansion of girls’s sports activities in India, Mandhana highlighted the outstanding achievements of girls athletes lately.
She emphasised the cultural shift, saying, “Women in India are doing amazing stuff in the last five to 10 years not only in women’s cricket but in women’s sport in general. If you see the last Olympics or Commonwealth or Asian Games, the kind of medals women’s athletes have gone and got for the country is a big inspiration for a lot of smaller city girls out there to pursue their passion. I think women’s sports in general should be treated separately and by doing that they can definitely sell a lot of things in terms of the ticketing or the digital rights.”
When requested concerning the areas ladies’s cricket wants by way of additional funding or additional focus to maintain propelling ahead, Mandhana recommended specializing in the grassroots stage.
“The only thing that we could invest in is the grassroots level of women’s sport in general because a lot of interest is developed with the Indian Women’s team or the WPL tournament. Invest more so that we get a lot more cricketers women cricketers,” she remarked.
Drawing inspiration from ladies athletes in worldwide sports activities, Mandhana revealed her admiration for Alex Morgan in ladies’s FIFA and acknowledged Serena Williams’ monumental achievements in tennis as her sources of motivation.
