Updated On: 16 March, 2023 10:05 AM IST | Mumbai | PTI
The Indian team vice-captain is leading a star-studded RCB side with the likes of Perry, Sophie Devine and Heather Knight playing under her. Perry, the six-time T20 World Cup winner, hoped the Indian would overcome this phase and come out with a "better version" of herself

Royal Challengers Bangalore Ellyse Perry celebrates her fifty during the 2023 Women`s Premier League (WPL) Twenty20 cricket match between UP Warriorz and Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. Pic/PTI
WPL's most expensive buy Smriti Mandhana may be going through a lean patch with Royal Challengers Bangalore making a horror start, but the legendary Ellyse Perry backed her skipper saying she just needs a chance to "find her feet" in the T20 competition.
Mandhana, who was bought for Rs 3.4 crore in the inaugural WPL auction, has scored 35, 23, 18 and 4 as RCB suffered four straight losses in the tournament so far.
"Knowing Smriti and how proud and responsible she is for her own game, there's probably no more pressure on her than what she is putting on herself," Perry said after they endured their fourth loss on the trot with a 10-wicket hammering by UP Warriorz here on Friday.