RCB Vs DC: Royal Challengers Bangalore have given a crushing defeat to Delhi Capitals in the Women's Premier League 2024. Bengaluru defeated Delhi by 8 wickets. Delhi had given the target of 114 runs to Bengaluru. With this, Bengaluru has won its first title in the Women's Premier League-2024.
In the final match, Delhi's opener Shefali Verma and captain Meg Lanning played a brilliant inning of 64 runs in 7 overs. However, Shefali Verma, who played an excellent inning of 44 runs in 27 balls in 7.1 overs, got out while playing a big shot on the ball of Sophie Molineux. After this, in-form batsmen Jemimah Rodrigues and Alice Capsey returned to the pavilion without opening their account. At one time Delhi's score was 3 wickets at 64 without any loss.
After this, the fourth wicket in the form of captain Meg Lanning went till 74. Meg Lanning scored 23 runs in 23 balls. Within no time the entire team was all out at 113 runs with four wickets at 74. Shreyanka Patil gave a memorable performance in bowling for Bangalore and took 4 wickets for 12 runs in 3.3 overs. Sophie Molineux took two wickets. While Asha Shobhana also took two wickets.
In the title match, Royal Challengers Bangalore first performed well in bowling and then showed their talent in batting as well. Captain Smriti Mandhana and Sophie Devine together gave a steady start to Bengaluru while chasing 114 runs. Both the openers scored only 25 runs in the power play in the initial over without playing any bad shot, but the good thing was that both of them did not let Bangalore suffer any setback in the beginning.
Let us tell you that this is the first title of Royal Challengers Bangalore franchise. For 16 years, the fans were waiting for the trophy from the men's players in IPL. That hope was fulfilled in WPL 2024 in Bangalore women's team under the captaincy of Smriti Mandhana. The fans of Bengaluru were seen strongly supporting their favorite team on the field. Bangalore's bowling laid the foundation of this title and the batsmen played an important role in making it come true.
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