Royal Challengers Bangalore, captained by Smriti Mandhana, could not score a hat-trick of wins in the Women’s Premier League (WPL). Delhi Capitals handed them their first defeat of this season in the match played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Thursday night. For Delhi Capitals, Shefali Verma scored the second half-century and made a partnership of 82 runs with Alyssa Capsey for the second wicket, on the basis of which Delhi defeated RCB by 25 runs. Batting first, Delhi scored 194 runs losing five wickets on the basis of Shefali’s 50 runs and Capsy’s 46 runs. RCB captain Mandhana tried her best to lead her team to victory by playing an inning of 74 runs but could not succeed. RCB could score only 169 runs after losing nine wickets in 20 overs.
After this match Delhi team is at number one. He has four points in three matches after two wins and one loss. Same is the situation with RCB but Delhi’s net run rate is better than RCB, hence this team is at number one.
it rained sixes
In this match, there was heavy rain of sixes from both the teams. A total of 19 sixes were hit in this match by both the teams. A total of 11 sixes were hit by Delhi, out of which Shefali hit the maximum of four, Marijane Kapp hit three, Capsy and Jess Jonason hit two sixes each. Mandhana hit three sixes for RCB. Sophie Divine and Richa Ghosh hit two sixes each. S Meghna hit a six. Mandhana played a brilliant innings with the help of 10 fours and three sixes in 43 balls. But she could not make her team win. A major reason for this was Delhi’s fast batting in the last overs. Delhi added 70 runs in the last five overs. This is where the RCB team was defeated. In the end the RCB team kept losing wickets continuously. The work that Jonason and Cap did for Delhi, no one could do for RCB. Cap scored 32 runs in 16 balls which included two fours. Jonason remained unbeaten after scoring 36 runs on 16 balls which included four fours.
Amazing with the ball after the bat
Both of them troubled RCB not only with the bat but also with the ball and shared a total of five wickets among themselves. Cap took two wickets. Johnson got three successes. Mandhana’s wicket came as part of the cap. Mandhana was bowled on the last ball of the 12th over. As long as she stayed, RCB’s victory seemed certain. When Mandhana was out, the team’s score was 112 runs, that is, the team was scoring runs at an average of 10, but Cap broke the back of RCB by sending her to the pavilion. Cap also dismissed Richa Ghosh. After this, there was a flurry of wickets and RCB had to face defeat. Apart from Cap and Johnson, Arundhati Reddy took two wickets. Shikha Pandey got one wicket. Apart from Mandhana, Meghna played 36 innings and Divine played 23 runs for RCB. In bowling, Divine and Nadine de Klerk took two wickets each for RCB.
