{"id":23045,"date":"2023-02-18T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=281024"},"modified":"2023-03-04T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T10:00:12","slug":"smriti-mandhana-to-captain-rcb-in-wpl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/wpl\/smriti-mandhana-to-captain-rcb-in-wpl\/","title":{"rendered":"Smriti Mandhana to captain RCB in WPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smriti Mandhana, one of India\u2019s top women\u2019s cricket players, has been named captain of the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) women\u2019s team for the upcoming season of the WPL.<\/p>\n<p>Mandhana, a left-handed opener, has been a key player for the Indian women\u2019s team for several years, and has also performed admirably in various T20 leagues around the world. She was previously part of the Trailblazers team that won the Women\u2019s T20 Challenge in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The RCB women\u2019s team is a relatively new addition to the IPL. Mandhana\u2019s appointment as captain is a significant step for the team, and for women\u2019s cricket in India as a whole. As a seasoned international player with experience in leadership roles, she is well-equipped to lead the RCB women\u2019s team and inspire the next generation of female cricketers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WPL will begin from March 4 and end on 26th March. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":25577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[976,3499,3509],"class_list":["post-23045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wpl","tag-smriti-mandhana","tag-wpl","tag-wpl-auctions"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}