A new player has entered Royal Challengers Bangalore for WPL 2025. This new player has a total experience of 78 international matches and her name is Charlie Dean, this 24 year old player has replaced Sophie Molineux in RCB. Sophie has to be ruled out of the Women's Premier League 2025 due to a knee injury. The specialty of Charlie Dean is that he is a spin bowling all-rounder.

Took 5 wickets on debut for this team

Charlie Dean's passion for playing cricket was inspired by seeing his father. His father also taught him the first lesson of cricket. His father Steven has played cricket for Warwickshire and Staffordshire. Charlie Dean made his debut for his school team in 2017 and took 5 wickets. A year later, he captained the Hampshire Under-15 team and led it to win the Royal London County Cup.

Charlie Dean joins WPL, replaces Sophie

Charlie Dean had the ability for cricket since childhood. That ability soon led to international cricket. In 2021, he made his debut for England in ODI and in the year 2022 in Test and T20. Now she is a regular member of the England team. Charlie Dean will now be seen playing in WPL for the first time. His connection is with the team, which is also the defending champion of the league.

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Our champion all-rounder Sophie Molineux has unfortunately been ruled out of #WPL2025 due to a knee injury, and England all-rounder ία ◆ has been chosen as her replacement.

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— Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@RCBTweets) January 16, 2025

Experience of 36 T20I and 30 The Hundred matches

Charlie Dean has experience of 36 International T20 matches. He has taken 46 wickets in these 36 matches. Talking about her league experience, till now she has played only in England's Women's Hundred League. He has 18 wickets in his name in 30 matches played in The Hundred. Hopefully, this experience of Charlie Dean will now be useful to Smriti Mandhana in WPL 2025 and will help her in defending the title.