Up, up and up… Alice Capsey has proved with glorious performances that Delhi Capitals had made no mistake in betting on her.
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On the day of the Women’s Premier League public sale in Mumbai, Alice Capsey, like a few others, had a T20 World Cup match to play in South Africa. She was purchased by Delhi Capitals for ₹75 lakh, in opposition to her base value of ₹30 lakh. She celebrated it by smashing a 22-ball 51 to energy England to a six-wicket win in opposition to Ireland. The Capitals administration will need to have been happy with that effort.
Capsey has made them happier because the WPL received underway. On Monday night time, her 38 off 24 balls helped Capitals overcome the lack of in-form openers Meg Lanning and Shafali Verma and put the chase in opposition to Royal Challengers Bangalore heading in the right direction.
The significance of her innings turned clearer after the match: Capitals’ fourth victory in 5 matches got here with solely two balls to spare. In her first match, additionally in opposition to RCB, she had taken the wickets of Smriti Mandhana and Sophie Devine along with her off-spin.
And she is simply 18. She definitely appears one for the long run!
She mentioned she loved her knock in opposition to RCB on the D.Y. Patil Stadium. “It was good fun,” she mentioned. “It was nice to have hit some boundaries in the PowerPlay.”
Capsey thinks the WPL is shaping up properly. “It has been a brilliant tournament,” she mentioned. “We have seen 200-plus scores in every other game and you have these kinds of games (on Monday) going down to the wire.”
She feels Captials is a balanced aspect. “Meg and Shafali are among the leading scorers in the tournament and we have got Marizanne Kapp and Tara Norris who have taken five-wicket hauls,” she mentioned. “And we are one of the best fielding sides in the competition.”
She should be in her teenagers, however she has already made a mark in skilled leagues, again dwelling in The Hundred, wherein her aspect Oval Invincibles was the champion in each the editions, and the WBBL in Australia.
