‘It was very kind of her to actually to come up and talk’ – Smriti Mandhana opens up on interaction with Meg Lanning at WPL 2023

Smriti Mandhana and Meg Lanning. (Photo Source: Twitter)

The inaugural season of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2023 has seen Royal Challengers Bangalore women go through a horrendous run. After the completion of the group stages of the tournament, RCB were unable to qualify for the playoffs of the competition as they finished in fourth place in the standings with just four points in eight games.

The Smriti Mandhana-led side lost their first five matches of the season before winning their first match of the tournament. However, their back-to-back wins were not enough to propel them to the playoffs.

Recently, Smriti Mandhana, the skipper of RCB, came forward to talk about an incident involving Meg Lanning when her side took on Delhi Capitals in the 11th match of the competition.

It was very kind of her to actually to come up and talk: Mandhana

Mandhana recently talked about the conversation she had with DC skipper Meg Lanning during a WPL match. The ace Indian batter reflected on the fact how kind it was of Lanning to come up to her and give her some much-needed words of motivation.

“It was very kind of her to actually to come up and talk. I was just standing there, waiting for a few of the Delhi girls, and she just walked up to me and asked if I am alright and how am I doing? I said that there are lot of lessons to be learned, then we started talking about batting and how cricket can be cruel at times and how it is amazing at times—those kind of experiences that she has also gone through,” Mandhana told Sportstar.

“We also talked about how to balance captaincy with batting, because you are expected to score runs as well as lead your side. She has done that for Australia for quite a long time, so I asked how do you actually manage to do that? It was just amazing where two cricketers just having that sort of a conversation. She told me a few things about my batting which she noticed, and it was an amazing conversation to have,” she added.