Women’s Premier League (WPL) Cricket: Delhi Capitals Defeat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 25 Runs in High-Scoring Encounter

2024-03-01 03:28:03

Bangalore,

The 2nd Women’s Premier League (WPL) cricket tournament with 5 teams is underway in Bengaluru. Royal Challengers Bangalore faced Delhi Capitals in the 7th League last night. Bengaluru team captain Mandana won the toss and chose to bowl.

Accordingly, although captain McLanning (11 runs) cheated in the Delhi team, which batted first, Shabali Verma and Alice Capsi spoiled the bowling of Bengaluru and conducted a run hunt. Shabali scored a half-century (50 runs, 31 balls, 3 fours, 4 sixes). Alice Capsey scored 46 runs (4 fours, 2 sixes).

After this, Marijane Bhatt (32 runs, 2 fours, 3 sixes) and Jess Jonassen (36 runs, 4 fours, 2 sixes) brought the score past 190. At the end of 20 overs, Delhi team accumulated 194 runs for 5 wickets. This is the highest score by a team in the ongoing series.

Then, in the Bengaluru team, who played towards a tough target, captain Mandhana and Sophy Dave scored 77 runs for the first wicket and laid a great foundation. Davin was out for 23 runs. Mandhana, who scored her first half-century in the Women’s Premier League, was bowled on 74 runs (43 balls, 10 fours, 3 sixes).

After them, none other than Meghana (36 runs) and Richa Ghosh (19 runs) in the Bengaluru team have touched double digits in the back row. After playing 20 overs, Bengaluru team managed to score only 169 runs for 9 wickets. Thus the Delhi team tasted the 2nd victory by 25 runs. For Delhi, Jess Jonassen took 3 wickets, Arundhati Reddy and Marijane Gapp took 2 wickets each. This is the first defeat for Bengaluru in the 3rd league.