Delhi Capitals Women’s captain Meg Lanning performs a shot throughout the final match towards Royal Challengers Bangalore Women within the Women’s Premier League 2024, at Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi on Sunday.
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Following his aspect’s eight-wicket loss to Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) of their Women’s Premier League (WPL) title conflict, Delhi Capitals head coach Jonathan Batty expressed happiness at how his staff fought until the final over.
An all-round Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) led by one more stable knock by Ellyse Perry and sensible bowling spells from spinners Shreyanka Patil and Sophie Molineux captured their first-ever Women’s Premier League (WPL) title after defeating Delhi Capitals by eight wickets within the title conflict at Arun Jaitley Stadium on Sunday.
DC misplaced their second successive WPL final. Following the loss within the post-match press convention, Batty lauded skipper Meg Lanning and the staff for the battle they put up.
“Every game she has been unbelievable. She has poured her heart and soul into this tournament and into DC. We (Lanning and Batty) just talk about where we are in the game, how we can get the players back up and how we have to fight. We fought magnificently and I am really proud of our players. We bowled and fielded really well,” mentioned Batty.
The coach mentioned that trying again on the match, he wouldn’t have had achieved something in another way, although he admitted his aspect couldn’t do itself justice with the bat.
“We bowled fantastically. We could not do ourselves justice with the bat. We were a few runs short after that fantastic start. As a fielding unit, credit to all our players. I do not feel we should have had done things differently looking back,” mentioned the coach.
Batty mentioned that the match may have been completely different had they reached 150-160 runs.
“We back our batters to play aggressively and positively. They have been brilliant throughout the tournament,” he added.
Batty lauded the DC seamers for maintaining the sport alive until the final over and controlling the run charge of RCB batters. Talking in regards to the performances of Indian home stars, Batty mentioned, “Our domestic players have stepped up and improved. They worked really hard. We were running camps etc over the last 12 months. Quality of cricket has been fantastic this time around from all teams.”
DC gained the toss and elected to bat first. Openers Shafali Varma (44 in 27 balls, with two fours and three sixes) and skipper Meg Lanning (23 in 23 balls, with three fours) began off very well for the staff with a quickfire 64-run opening stand.
However, Shreyanka Patil (4/12), Sophie Molineux (3/20) and Asha Sobhana (2/14) helped RCB bounce again simply after the powerplay and eliminated Delhi batters one-by-one, triggering an unfathomable batting collapse. DC was all out for 113 in 18.3 overs.
In the chase of 114, RCB placed on a 49-run opening stand, powered by Sophie Devine (32 in 27 balls, with 5 fours and a six).
However, RCB was examined by Delhi bowlers in center overs and skipper Smriti Mandhana (31 in 39 balls, with three fours) departed at a vital juncture to go away RCB at 82/2 in 15 overs. However, Ellyse Perry (35* in 37 balls, with 4 boundaries) andRicha Ghosh (17* in 14 balls, with two fours) completed the chase with three balls left. Minnu Mani and Shikha Pandey took a wicket every for DC.
Molineux took residence the ‘Player of the Match’ award.
