Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) girls’s workforce captain and Indian girls’s cricket workforce vice-captain Smriti Mandhana has shared her views on the potential influence of a multi-city format for the Ladies’s Premier League (WPL). She was talking on the RCB Innovation Lab’s Leaders Meet India in Bengaluru. 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. “It would be great to have WPL in the multi-city format. I think that might be the next step and I am sure the people right here would look into it and make it happen. As an RCB fan, I would love to play in Chinnaswamy where people are chanting ‘RCB RCB’ and just to be in that environment. That is something which is one step ahead for us that it (multi-city format) can reach to places where women’s cricket hasn’t reached and to get new audience going into women’s cricket,” Mandhana stated, in accordance with a RCB launch.
The 27-year-old feels the Innovation Lab’s Leaders Meet India was a platform to grasp how completely different enterprise folks have a look at sports activities as a platform to generate digital numbers and feels the occasion ought to occur extra usually to work together with different sports activities icons and enterprise high brass.
Forward of the WPL public sale, she additionally talked concerning the preparations for the event.
“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,” she added.
Talking on the expansion of girls’s sports activities in India, Mandhana highlighted the outstanding achievements of girls athletes in recent times.
“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.”
Requested concerning the areas girls’s cricket wants when it comes to additional funding or additional focus to maintain propelling ahead, Mandhana urged specializing in the grassroots degree.
“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 girls athletes in worldwide sports activities, Mandhana revealed her admiration for Alex Morgan in girls’s FIFA and acknowledged Serena Williams’ monumental achievements in tennis as her supply of motivation.
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