WPL 2025: Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Asha Sobhana ruled out of tournament due to injury | Cricket News
Ahead of their Women’s Premier League opener against Gujarat Giants on Friday, Royal Challengers Bengaluru announced that allrounder Asha Sobhana has been ruled out of the tournament due to a knee injury. The franchise announced that wicketkeeper-batter Nuzhat Parween will be Sobhana’s replacement this season.
“Unfortunately, our champion all-rounder, Asha Sobhana, has been ruled out of #WPL2025 due to a knee injury! Star wicketkeeper-batter Nuzhat Parween will replace her for the season!,” the franchise posted on X.
Asha had sustained the injury at a T20 World Cup against Australia in Sharjah just after the toss and had to be replaced. This is the latest injury blow to RCB with the defending champions also losing Sophie Molineux, who pulled out after a knee injury.
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🥹 Unfortunately, our champion all-rounder, Asha Sobhana, has been ruled out of #WPL2025 due to a knee injury! Star 🇮🇳 wicketkeeper-batter Nuzhat Parween will replace her for the season! 🙌
Welcome to #ನಮ್ಮRCB, Nuzhat! 🤩… pic.twitter.com/LfJx3geASV
— Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@RCBTweets) February 13, 2025
Meanwhile, Mumbai Indians have picked Parunika Sisodia as a replacement for an injured all-rounder Pooja Vastrakar for the Women’s Premier League, the franchise said on Thursday.
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The WPL starts on Friday with a match between defending champions RCB and Gujarat Giants in Vadodara.Parween, the wicketkeeper from Railways has represented India in 5 T20Is and will join RCB for her base price of Rs 30 lakh. Vastrakar was ruled out of the third edition of the WPL due to an injury.
Parunika, who was picked the Gujarat Giants in the inaugural edition of the league, will now feature in the Mumbai Indians squad for WPL 2025.
The left-arm spinner pitched in with crucial breakthroughs during the recently concluded ICC Women’s U19 T20 World Cup and was adjudged the Player of the Match in the semi-final against England. She joins MI for Rs 10 lakh.
