The Royal Challengers Bangalore ended their home-leg of the Girls’s Premier League 2024 season with a snug 23-run win over the UP Warriorz on Monday on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
The Royal Challengers Bangalore, or RCB, put up a powerful complete of 198/3 within the first innings earlier than limiting the Warriorz to 175/8 on the finish of 20 overs.
The win for the hosts ended the Bangalore workforce’s run of two consecutive losses whereas additionally ending the Warriorz’s run of two successive wins.
Central to RCB’s, win on Monday was the spectacular hitting by their captain Smriti Mandhana and Ellyse Perry within the first innings – each scoring half-centuries of their knocks.
Alyssa Healy gained the toss for the Warriorz and determined to bowl first.
Mandhana and S Meghana received off to a fast begin, racing to a 50-run partnership within the sixth over earlier than the latter was dismissed for 28 off 21. Perry then got here out to the center to affix the captain, because the duo placed on a devastating 95-run partnership off 64 deliveries.
A number of sloppy moments within the subject handed Mandhana two reprieves. Chamari Athapaththu overlooked the ball in a shot Mandhana skied. However the Sri Lankan captain finally put in an inadequate one-handed effort for the catch however put it down with Mandhana on 28.
On the following ball Mandhana confronted, batting on 29, she went down the observe however missed the ball. Healy, the wicketkeeper, nevertheless, additionally missed the ball and Mandhana received away with what might have been a straight-forward stumping.
Finally, the left-handed India batter went on to attain a participant of the match award-winning 80 off 50, with 10 boundaries and three sixes. She was finally dismissed off the bowling of Deepti Sharma, with Poonam Khemnar taking a formidable catch at deep midwicket.
Mandhana’s innings nevertheless did assist her get to the highest of the upper run-scorers chart to this point this season.
In the meantime, Perry was simply as spectacular, hitting the ball cleanly in her innings of 57 off 37, which included 4 boundaries and simply as many sixes. One of many sixes broke the window of a promotional automobile positioned within the midwicket area.
Finally she too could be dismissed with Khemnar taking one other good catch within the deep.
Richa Ghosh then got here in with a fast cameo of 21 from 10 deliveries to assist the RCB get to 198/3 after 20 overs.
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The Warriorz’s chase didn’t get off to an excellent begin with Renuka Singh Thakur bowling a maiden within the first over of the second innings. Kiran Navgire and Alyssa Healy nevertheless, picked up the tempo quickly sufficient.
Finally, RCB received the breakthrough with the hard-hitting Navgire (18 off 11) being caught well by Georgia Wareham, who was operating backwards from her mid-on place.
Healy continued to hassle the RCB bowlers however was shedding companions on the different finish often.
With the strain increase on the captain, she got here out of her crease on the lookout for an enormous hit however was stumped out by Ghosh on 55 off 38, with seven boundaries and three sixes.
Deepti Sharma and Khemnar got here up with respectable cameos of 33 off 22 and 31 off 24 respectively – each batters hitting 4 fours and one six every. However with the scoreboard strain and the RCB bowlers providing little to the batters, the hosts held on to assert their third win in 5 matches.
