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.