Smriti Mandhana / There was a big change in the RCB team, after the departure of this veteran, suddenly someone else entered.

The Indian Cricket Board had organized the Women's Premier League for the first time in the year 2023 on the lines of the Men's IPL. In the first season, Mumbai Indians team won the title under the leadership of Indian women's team captain Harmanpreet Kaur. It was a very successful event. But during this period, there was one team which had no dearth of stars, that was the team of Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Vikrant Shekhawat : Sep 21, 2023, 12:00 PM

Smriti Mandhana: The Indian Cricket Board had organized the Women's Premier League for the first time in the year 2023 on the lines of the Men's IPL. In the first season, Mumbai Indians team won the title under the leadership of Indian women's team captain Harmanpreet Kaur. It was a very successful event. But during this period, there was one team which had no dearth of stars, that was the team of Royal Challengers Bangalore. RCB had many star women players. The captain was also Smriti Mandhana, yet this team was seen performing shamefully.

Sudden big change

After this, before the second season of WPL, Luke Williams of Australia has been made the head coach of RCB women's team. According to 'ESPNcricinfo', this decision was taken after RCB's poor performance in the first tournament. Williams will replace New Zealand's Ben Sawyer. In the first tournament, RCB team played under the leadership of Smriti Mandhana. Which could win only two out of eight matches.

Williams has a great experience

Earlier, Luke Williams has coached Adelaide Strikers in the Women's Big Bash League. Under his guidance, the team also won the title in the 2022-23 season. Not only this, he had also made the team runner-up twice before under his coaching. Apart from the Big Bash, she was also a part of the title-winning team Southern Brave in The Hundred Women's Competition. In this league, he was associated with the team as an assistant coach.

RCB women's team squad

Smriti Mandhana (captain), Sophie Devine, Ellyse Perry, Richa Ghosh, Erin Burns, Disha Cassatt, Indrani Roy, Shreyanka Patil, Kanika Ahuja, Renuka Singh Thakur, Asha Shobhana, Heather Knight, Preeti Bose, Poonam Khemnar, Dane van Niekerk, Komal Janjad, Megan Schutt, Sahana Pawar.