It was a simple sufficient win for Royal Challengers Bangalore as they sealed an eight-wicket victory over Gujarat Giants within the Girls’s Premier League on Tuesday on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
After the bowlers restricted the Giants to a below-par rating of 107/7, Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Smriti Mandhana was fluent within the chase, scoring 43 off 23 balls with eight boundaries and a single six.
S Meghana, the star of Bangalore’s win in opposition to UP Warriorz, and Australia all-rounder Ellyse Perry completed issues off with an unbeaten 38-run partnership for the fourth wicket. Whereas Meghana hit 36 off 28 balls, Perry struck 23 off 14 balls, together with hitting the successful runs with seven overs to spare.
Profitable the toss and selecting to bowl first, the house staff acquired off to a great begin with Renuka Singh Thakur and Sophie Devine bowling tight lengths and never permitting the Giants openers in captain Beth Mooney and Harleen Deol a lot freedom to attain.
This strain piled up as Mooney tried to hit over and was bowled by Thakur. Devine too was equally adept at bowling so tightly that Deol and Phoebe Litchfield, the brand new batter, have been unable to do a lot besides dig out the ball.
Thakur then acquired her second wicket when Bangalore keeper Richa Ghosh made a half-hearted attraction for caught behind and shortly modified minds to stump Litchfield. A replay of the wicket noticed that the Australian had not managed to stretch her foot previous the road and the Giants have been two essential wickets down.
Deol then turned extra settled and labored across the gaps to get just a few boundaries in. Veda Krishnamurthy survived two makes an attempt at being dismissed after reviewing each choices, however didn’t make good use of that luck.
When she did attempt to hit to the boundary, Krishnamurthy ended up discovering Georgia Wareham on the fence off Sophie Molineux and departed for 9 off 15 balls.
Then in the identical over, catastrophe struck once more for the Giants as a mix-up between Ashleigh Gardner and Deol noticed the latter being run-out for 22.
D Hemalatha then got here in and performed some streaky photographs, however appeared fluent sufficient hitting Molineux down the bottom for six. She would in the end end as her staff’s high scorer, hitting 31 off 25 balls.
The Giants now even have the unenviable file of most dot balls performed in a WPL innings – 67 – surpassing the UP Warriorz’s earlier mark.
The chase started in imperious vogue with Mandhana hitting three boundaries within the first over itself. She continued to dominate the Giants bowlers, with Devine additionally hitting one unhealthy ball to the fence off Kathryn Bryce.
The Giants did have some respite when Gardner dismissed Devine for six whereas Mandhana was caught and bowled by Tanuja Khemnar.
However as soon as Perry settled in with a boundary off the primary supply she confronted and Meghana continued off from the place she left off in opposition to UP, it was a simple sufficient sport for Bangalore to complete off.