Watch: WPL Auction - Renuka Singh's Family Distributes Sweets After Rs 1.5 Crore Move To Royal Challengers Bangalore

Renuka Singh has established herself as a major part of the Indian women's cricket team in the recent past and her impact was clear from the fact that Royal Challengers Bangalore ended up paying a massive Rs 1.5 crore in the Women's Premier League (WPL) auction. She joined India teammates Smriti Mandhana and Richa Ghosh at the Bangalore franchise just one day after featuring in the win against Pakistan in the ICC Women's T20 World Cup. The scenes at her village in Himachal Pradesh were captured in a video published on Jio Cinema's Twitter account and it showed her mother and other family members distributing sweets among the people who congratulated her.

Smriti Mandhana stole the thunder in the inaugural Women's Premier League (WPL) auctions as Royal Challengers Bangalore pipped Mumbai Indians in a bidding war to buy the India vice-captain for Rs 3.40 crore.

India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur came much cheaper for Mumbai Indians at nearly half the price of Mandhana at Rs 1.80 crore. Harman is also not the highest paid in her team where England's Nat Sciver-Brunt got way more at Rs 3.20 crore.

In fact, Harmanpreet was not even among the top-six Indian buys as the second costliest player from the country so far is all-rounder Deepti Sharma, who was bought by UP Warriorz for Rs 2.6 crore.

The hard-hitting Shafali Verma and star of the T20 World Cup game against Pakistan on Sunday, Jemimah Rodrigues were picked by Delhi Capitals for Rs 2 crore and Rs 2.20 crore respectively. All-rounders Pooja Vastrakar and Richa Ghosh laughed their way to the bank with Rs 1.90 crore deals offered by MI and RCB respectively.

Jemimah and Richa's deals were also a case of recency bias as the Pakistan match on Sunday did play a big role.

However,