'Queen of Indian Cricket!': Twitter Celebrates Smriti Mandhana's Big WPL Payday

The inaugural edition of the WPL will be played in Mumbai from 4 March to 26 March.

Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore engaged in a fierce two-way battle for Indian cricketer Smriti Mandhana, and the price sky-rocketed from Rs 50 lakh to Rs 3.40 crore in absolutely no time.

Mandhana was sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore, in what is the biggest bid in the Women's Premiere League Auction so far.

This is how social media reacted to the sale:

Queen Of Indian Cricket..👸🏻

S̶m̶r̶i̶t̶i̶ M̶a̶n̶d̶a̶n̶a̶ has Bought for RCB..!
💛❤️ @mandhana_smriti

Welcome to Our Team @RCBTweets#WPLAuction#WomensIPL pic.twitter.com/ROeMg93K94

— ಶ್ರೀಹರಿ ಪಾಳೇಗಾರ್ (@sriharipalegar) February 13, 2023

Congratulations for believing in the abilities of an absolute superstar who's going 2 give her best towards the success of both #WomensIPL as a whole & the success of RCB brand.🥇
Banking on Mandhana is a long term call from #RCB.🙌#wpl23 #smritimandhana #IPL2023Auction #INDvAUS pic.twitter.com/ETEdJvyz6p

— Tejas S Mishra (@tejasmishra1997) February 13, 2023

Smriti Mandana: "My dream is to win the IPL with RCB, just like our men's team did."

Interviewer: "Did Men's RCB win the IPL?"

Smriti Mandana: "No, they dreamed about it too."#WPLAuction

— Sri (@Kalyan_Sri_) February 13, 2023

Smriti Mandhana.
Ellyse Perry.
Sophie Devine.
Renuka Singh Thakur.
Richa Ghosh.

- Incredible stuff by RCB, what a team so far!

— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) February 13, 2023

#SmritiMandana 3.4 cr
women cricket is making giant leap... empowered.
Good sign for girls to take sports as career 👏#WPLAuction

— ADITYA SARVE (@offensiveSARVE) February 13, 2023

RCB spend over a quarter of their purse on Smriti Mandhana in the first lot of the #WPLAuction, INR 3.4 crore from a budget of 12 crore - the equivalent of a men's franchise spending 25.5 crore on a player

— Matt Roller (@mroller98) February 13, 2023