Alice in wonderland: Everything Capsey touched turned to gold
on Tuesday.
| Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI
England all-rounder Alice Capsey stamped her class as soon as extra within the Women’s Premier League, claiming three for 26 and making a fluent 34 (31b, 4×4, 1×6) to information Delhi Capitals to a five-wicket win over UP Warriorz right here on Tuesday.
The win, sealed with 13 balls to spare, despatched Capitals into the final, edging Mumbai Indians by advantage of higher Net Run Rate. MI and UPW will meet within the Eliminator on March 24.
Warriorz received off to a brisk begin with Shweta Sehrawat and Alyssa Healy citing 30 runs in simply 4 overs.
While Capsey and Radha stemmed the run movement with fast wickets of Healy, Simran Shaikh and Kiran Navgire, Tahlia McGrath took cost of the innings for the second sport and second day in a row. McGrath scored her fourth fifty of the match (58 n.o., 32b, 8×4, 2×6), getting Warriorz to 138.
In response, Meg Lanning and Shafali Verma introduced up 50 in 4.1 overs. Ismail eliminated Jemimah Rodrigues and Lanning within the span of 4 balls within the seventh over, however the Kapp-Capsey present took over. By the time Capsey fell, Capitals had been simply 9 runs away. Jess Jonassen’s run out noticed the sport drift into the 18th over. But Kapp sealed it with a boundary, incomes her facet a direct ticket to the final.
