Smriti Mandhana, Renuka Thakur star as RCB move on top of WPL points table

Smriti Mandhana‘s 43 from 27 balls and Renuka Singh Thakur’s mingy spell of 2/14 paved the best way for Royal Challengers Bangalore’s thumping win over Gujarat Giants within the fifth match of the Women’s Premier League at M Chinnaswamy Stadium. The Bangalore facet got here into this contest on the again of a nail-biting win over UP Warriorz whereas the Giants confronted a drubbing of their opening encounter.

It was the identical story for the Giants of their second match too. Struggling for giant hits within the entirety of the innings, Beth Mooney’s facet had been lowered to lower than run-a-ball, 107 exactly, of their first innings. The Bangalore facet cruised in direction of the goal with Mandhana going all weapons blazing with a 27-ball 43-run knock.

Renuka Singh was at her highest, troubling the batters. She obtained rid of the Gujarat captain Mooney with a supply shaping into the right-hander to fort her on 8. Phoebe Litchfield and Harleen Deol laboured their well past the powerplay however Renuka struck again as soon as once more with an in depth stumping by Richa Ghosh to ship them two down. Despite the Giants trying to hold round, neither they may step up the move of runs, nor did they handle to maintain wickets in hand, dropping Veda Krishnamurthy, Harleen Deol and Ash Gardner inside 5 overs. Dayalan Hemalatha carried the crew ahead and tried going huge with two fours and a six however may solely get them previous 100 along with her 25-ball 31-run knock.

In the chase, RCB had been off the blocks shortly with Mandhana hitting three fours within the first over of Lea Tahuhu earlier than hitting three extra within the subsequent two overs. Despite Gardner obtained Sophie Devine, RCB had been already at 37/1 after 4 overs. The move of runs continues with Mandhana and Sabbhineni Meghana then punishing the bowlers. Tanuja Kanwar obtained the RCB skipper seven brief of her first WPL fifty however that was the final pleasure for the of the night time. Ellyse Perry and Meghana peppered boundaries to shut a straightforward win, which took them to the top of the points table with 2 wins in 2 outings.