Marizanne Kapp and Jess Jonassen’s all-round present spurred the Delhi Capitals to their second win of the Ladies’s Premier League 2024 season on Thursday on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
Put to bat first by the Royal Challengers Bangalore, the Capitals posted 194/5 of their 20 overs earlier than proscribing the house aspect to 169/9 to safe a 25-run win.
The Capitals misplaced captain Meg Lanning (11) within the fifth over however the younger pair of Shafali Verma (50) and Alice Capsey (46) took the assault to the RCB bowlers plundering 82 runs in 43 balls. The match might have gone in a totally completely different course had Shreyanka Patil not dropped a simple catch from Verma, when she was on 5, within the first over.
Capsey was additionally the beneficiary of a dropped catch with Sophie Devine dropping a sitter.
Patil made amends for her earlier drop by eliminating Verma proper after the Capitals opener introduced up her half-century. Nonetheless, the injury was accomplished as Verma scored 45 runs after being dropped within the first over, together with hitting Patil for back-to-back sixes proper earlier than her dismissal.
WPL debutant Nadine de Klerk, who had been named within the group instead of an ailing Ellyse Perry, removed Jemimah Rodrigues for a duck earlier than cleansing up Capsey with a pleasant slower yorker.
At 124/4 after 15 overs, the Capitals had been in a very good place going into the ultimate 5 overs and wanted an enormous end to set a aggressive complete. In Kapp and Jonassen, the Capitals discovered simply the fitting gamers. Kapp hit a 16-ball 32 and Jonassen hit a 16-ball 36 because the Capitals scored 70 runs within the final 5 overs.
Bangalore had gotten off to a very good begin this season topping the desk by successful each their opening matches. To proceed their successful begin, the house aspect wanted to tug off the very best chase ever in WPL historical past.
They usually bought off to the proper begin because of captain Smriti Mandhana. The 27-year-old left-hander was brutal within the power-play, clubbing seven boundaries and two sixes to race to 49. On the different finish, fellow opener Devine had solely confronted 11 deliveries and scored eight runs.
Mandhana introduced up her first WPL half century earlier than Devine joined the get together by smacking Minnu Mani for 2 enormous sixes within the eighth over. Nonetheless, the New Zealand batter perished within the subsequent over for 23 after miscuing a low full toss off Arundhai Reddy’s bowling. The ball went excessive up within the air and Jonassen made no mistake in pouching the catch.
Mandhana was joined by S Meghana within the center and went about her enterprise as Bangalore stored the required charge in examine. Simply because it appeared like Mandhana and Bangalore would run away with the match, Kapp struck.
Proper after being hit for a 4 and a six, the veteran South African outfoxed Mandhana with a slower supply which crashed into the off stump. A hush went across the floor as a dejected Mandhana made her means again to the dugout for a 43-ball 74.
Shikha Pandey and Jonassen elevated the strain on Meghana and new batter Richa Ghosh by conceding simply 11 runs of their overs mixed. Ghosh took on the mantel of the aggressor as she clobbered Reddy for 2 sixes.
It was Kapp who as soon as once more got here up with the killer blow. And it was as soon as once more a slower supply which was the undoing of a Royal Challengers Bangalore batter on the night time. Ghosh appeared to hit Kapp out of the park solely to finish up slicing the ball in the direction of backward level the place Jonassen accomplished a very good catch. Crucially, Kapp gave away solely 5 runs in that over to knock the wind out of the house aspect’s sails.
With Bangalore needing 40 runs off the final two overs, Meghana tried to struggle on, hitting Reddy for back-to-back fours. Nonetheless, a mix-up with Georgia Wareham noticed the Indian being run out for 36. Wareham adopted a ball later holing out to Annabel Sutherland within the deep.
Jonassen picked up three wickets within the remaining over to wrap up a cushty 25-run win. The Capitals’ win sees them tied with Bangalore and Mumbai Indians at 4 factors. Nonetheless, the Capitals prime the desk because of their superior internet run charge with Bangalore sitting in second place.