India, Nov. 28 -- When Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) entered the 2025 Women's Premier League (WPL) auction room here on Thursday, there was a sense of quiet certainty around their table.

For Malolan Rangarajan, their head coach this season who also works in scouting roles across RCB's men's and women's teams, that calmness was a result of years of repetition and a kind of muscle memory.

"We got about 85-90% of what we wanted," Rangarajan told HT. "Our clarity came from experience. A lot of what happened looked very similar to the IPL 2025 mega auction. Knowing how the first sets can explode with money kept us alert."

It is that dual exposure across two teams, two leagues and two talent pipelines that gives Rangarajan a panoramic vi...