While the Women’s Premier League kickstarted with a bang, things haven’t gone well with the Royal Challengers Bangalore Women skipper Smriti Mandhana so far in the tournament. The star batter, who was ropped in by the franchise for a record-breaking INR 3.40 crores, has been struggling to score runs with the bat. She has been a major flop with the bat in all her four outings so far.
Smriti Mandhana Is Struggling To Score Runs
A batter of Mandhana’s caliber has only achieved 80 runs this season at an average of 21.24, which is unjustifiably low. In addition to her batting skills, the player has struggled as the franchise’s skipper as well, having lost their last three matches.
Ahead of the season, there were a lot of expectations from Smriti, however, she hasn’t managed to live up to the expectations of the fans. The excitement has subsided and supporters are slowly beginning to express their disappointment with Mandhana’s continued streak of failures in the competition.
In her fourth game for RCB against UP Warriorz, Mandhana once again failed to perform with the bat and was dismissed for a meager score of 4 runs.
After her dismissal, fans on social media took to their Twitter and started trolling the RCB skipper left, right, and center. There were many who came up with hilarious memes and jokes while trolling the batter.
Check out the reactions of fans:
Naya Captain choose karo
Smriti ko aise batting karte aur nahi dekha jayega ðŸ˜#CricketTwitter #RCBvsUPW #WPL2023 #RCB pic.twitter.com/VnqswJ9b2v— Sharjeel. (@Sharjeel0208) March 10, 2023
Smrithi Mandhana is from Sachin’s school. Great batters but no luck with captaincy. #WPL2023
— Bunny (@ursbunnyv) March 10, 2023
https://twitter.com/Joyita1015/status/1634197223398572035?s=20
https://twitter.com/133_NotOut/status/1634195659959177216?s=20
Mandhana's agony continues
— Deekshith (@Morgsmudge) March 10, 2023
https://twitter.com/mahiera7781/status/1634195639557926912?s=20
Mandhana choked under pressure AGAIN.
— Sarb (@ChandlerStinso1) March 10, 2023
Mandhana what the hell is this
— AMIT (@Amit_g777) March 10, 2023
https://twitter.com/_Melbourne_82/status/1634195804746391552?s=20
Soon she is going to lose her captaincy like Kohli did for RCB #RCBW #SmritiMandhana #IPL #Cricket
— Abhi D (@ADesai0823) March 10, 2023
I survived 2022 IPL Virat Kohli this Smriti Mandhana patch is nothing
— moved to @advitwake (@shyamalanism) March 10, 2023
Biggest scam in IPLauction : Ishan Kishan was sold for 15 cr.
Biggest scam in WPL auction: Smriti Mandhana was sold for 3.4 cr.
— Sohel Says. (@Sohel_Creates) March 10, 2023
Whatever mentor role Sania Mirza has..she has to remove Smriti Mandhana out of this mental rut.
It's all in the mind as we all know what a quality batter Smriti is.
This is why Sania is with the team and she should make sure she fixes this.
— Anuj Nitin Prabhu (@APTalksCricket) March 10, 2023
What Smriti Mandhana did today is what she should be doing in every game. Play a safe shot, take a single, & let the RHB bash the off-spinner.
Ideally, it should be Sophie Devine who should be taking the strike.
— Jeet Vachharajani (Women's Cricket) (@Jeetv27WC) March 10, 2023
Talking about Royal Challengers Bangalore, the side has returned with three losses in a trot and is currently sitting at the bottom of the table with 0 points.
RCB’s full squad for WPL 2023:
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Smriti Mandhana, Sophie Devine, Ellyse Perry, Renuka Singh, Richa Ghosh, Erin Burns, Disha Kasat, Indrani Roy, Shreyanka Patil, Kanika Ahuja, Asha Shobhana, Heather Knight, Dane van Niekerk, Preeti Bose, Poonam Khemnar, Komal Zanzad, Megan Schutt, Sahana Pawar
