Smriti Mandhana spoke at RCB Innovation
RCB women’s team captain Smriti Mandhana spoke last week at the RCB Innovation Lab’s Leaders Meet India in Bengaluru. She covered the potential effects of a multi-city strategy for the Women’s Premier League (WPL). Smriti offered her thoughts the potential outcomes of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) in multiple cities.
In her reflections on the WPL’s success, Mandhana expressed enthusiasm for the notion of using a multi-city model at the inaugural summit, which brought together influential figures from various industries to talk about the future of sports.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) is the world’s most profitable domestic Twenty20 league, with a multi-city format that has been in place since its inception. The league was founded with eight teams and has subsequently expanded to ten. Home and away games are played in this style from the start.
Mandhana was excited about the idea of using a multi-city format. In a multi-city model, WPL would be fantastic. That seems like the next step, and I have no doubt that those in charge here would investigate and see to it that it was carried out.
As an RCB supporter, I would adore playing in Chinnaswamy where the crowd chants “RCB RCB” and experiencing that atmosphere firsthand. The fact that it (the multi-city format) can expand to areas where women’s cricket hasn’t yet touched and attract new fans is something that is a big step forward for us, according to Mandhana.
The captain of the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) Smriti Mandhana stated that she will give priority to spending time with the team and that the franchise has created a conducive environment ahead of the WPL auction and the second season of the competition. In order to get the players we have our eye on, we are therefore excitedly awaiting the WPL auctions,” she said.
The 27-year-old thinks that the Leaders Meet India event hosted by the RCB Innovation Lab gave business executives a much-needed platform to learn about how different industries view sports as a way to generate digital numbers. He also thinks that more events like this should be held to allow executives to network with other business executives and sports icons.
RCB captain Smriti Mandhana emphasized the value of the supportive environment the club has established and said she will concentrate her time with the squad ahead of the WPL auction and the tournament’s second season. We have given much thought to the types of combinations we require for release or detention.
Thus, we are eagerly anticipating the WPL auctions and, ideally, we will be able to acquire the players we have our eye on,” Smriti Mandhana continued. Speaking about the expansion of women’s sports in India, Mandhana emphasized the outstanding accomplishments of female athletes in the last few years.
“Women in India are doing amazing stuff in the last five to ten years not only in women’s cricket but in women’s sport in general,” Smriti Mandhana said, emphasizing the cultural shift. The medals that women’s athletes have earned for their nation in the most recent Olympics, Commonwealth Games, or Asian Games serve as a major source of inspiration for many smaller city girls to pursue their ambitions.
I believe that women’s sports in general should be handled differently because doing so will surely boost revenues, whether they are selling digital rights or tickets. Women’s sports in general, in my opinion, ought to be treated differently. By doing so, they can profit greatly from ticket sales and digital rights.
When questioned about what more funding or attention women’s cricket needed to keep moving forward, Smriti Mandhana recommended starting at the local level. The Indian Women’s team and the WPL competition attract a lot of interest, thus the only area we could fund is women’s sport at the grassroots level. Invest more money to ensure that there are many more female cricket players,” she said.
Rodrygo’s Spectacular Goal Propels Real Madrid’s Thrilling La Liga Journey Against Girona
