Shafali Verma and Meg Lanning in the course of the WPL match between Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday, March 5, 2023.
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Royal Challengers Bangalore appeared the staff to beat after the public sale. Delhi Capitals on Sunday afternoon confirmed how.
A capital efficiency with the bat on the prime of the order adopted by a effective effort with the ball helped Delhi win the second match of the inaugural version of the Women’s Premier League by 60 runs on a scorching, humid Sunday afternoon on the Brabourne Stadium. An wonderful crowd was handled to a superlative show of stroke-play by the Capital openers Meg Lanning (72, 43b, 14×4) and Shafali Verma (84, 45b, 10×4, 4×6) as DC motored alongside to 223 for 2.
Meg Lanning in motion in the course of the WPL match between Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday, March 5, 2023.
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Skipper Lanning, contemporary from main Australia to a different T20 World Cup victory solely a week in the past, and her teenaged accomplice Indian Shafali indicated that theirs may very well be one of the vital formidable opening partnerships of the competitors.
Shafali went for the massive pictures at any time when she might, hitting some clear sixes, whereas Lanning confirmed her class with some fantastically timed pictures, together with a couple of back-to-back fours off Sophie Devine sq. of the wicket on the off.
Shafali was the primary to succeed in her 50 off 31 balls, Lanning’s too got here off 31. Hundred was up in 9.4 overs. The breakthrough for RCB would come solely practically 4 overs later. That was supplied by the England captain Heather Knight’s off spin.
Shafali Verma celebrates scoring her half century in the course of the WPL match between Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday, March 5, 2023.
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She eliminated each the openers throughout the house of three balls. If the RBC girls heaved a collective sigh of aid, Marizanne Kapp made them really feel desperately helpless but once more, because the South African smashed an unbeaten 39 off simply 17 balls (3×4, 3×6).
RCB’s reply was by no means actually on observe because it completed its innings at 168 for eight in its allotted 20 overs. Capitals bowled properly, none in addition to Tara Norris, the American left-arm seamer who lived a dream. She took 5 for 29. “I wanted to make all the Associate nations proud,” she had advised The Hindu a few days in the past.
She did.
Tara Norris of Delhi Capitals in motion in the course of the WPL match between Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday, March 5, 2023.
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The scores: Delhi Capitals: Meg Lanning b Knight 72 (43b, 14×4), Shafali Verma c Richa b Knight 84 (45b, 10×4, 4×6), Marizanne Kapp (not out) 39 (17b, 3×4, 3×6), Jemimah Rodrigues (not out) 22 (15b, 3×4); Extras (lb-1, w-5): 6; Total (for 2 wkts. in 20 overs): 223.
Fall of wickets: 1-162 (Lanning, 14.3 overs), 2-163 (Shafali, 14.5).
RCB bowling: Renuka 3-0-24-0, Schutt 4-0-45-0, Preeti 4-0-35-0, Perry 3-0-29-0, Devine 1-0-20-0, Asha 2-0-29-0, Knight 3-0-40-2.
Royal Challengers: Smriti Mandhana c Shikha b Capsey 35 (23b, 5×4, 1×6), Sophie Devine c Shafali b Capsey 14 (11b, 3×4), Ellyse Perry b Norris 31 (19b, 5×4), Disha Kasat c Capsey b Norris 9 (11b, 1×4), Richa Ghosh c Radha b Norris 2 (4b), Heather Knight c Lanning b Norris 34 (21b, 2×4, 2×6), Kanika Ahuja c Shafali b Norris 0 (1b), Sobhana Asha c Radha b Shikha 2 (3b), Megan Schutt (not out) 30 (19b, 5×4), Preeti Bose (not out) 2 (8b); Extras (lb-1, w-3): 4; Total (for eight wkts. in 20 overs): 163.
Fall of wickets: 1-41 (Devine, 4.2), 2-56 (Smriti, 6.3), 3-89 (Perry, 10.3), 4-90 (Disha, 10.5), 5-93 (Richa, 12.2), 6-93 (Kanika, 12.3), 7-96 (Asha, 13.1), 8-150 (Knight, 17.5).
Capitals bowling: Shikha 4-0-35-1 , Kapp 4-0-36-0, Jonassen 4-0-28-0, Capsey 2-0-10-2, Radha 2-0-24-0, Norris 4-0-29-5.
Toss: RCB.
Delhi Capitals gained by 60 runs.
