In the fourth season of the Women’s Premier League (WPL), Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) won its fourth consecutive match. The team defeated Delhi Capitals by 8 wickets in the second match on Saturday. With this the team also strengthened its position at the top position of the points table. Bengaluru chose bowling at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. Delhi scored 166 runs on the basis of Shefali Verma’s fifty. Lauren Bell and Sayali Satghare got 3-3 wickets. With the help of captain Smriti Mandhana’s 96 runs, Bengaluru achieved the target by losing only 2 wickets in 18.2 overs. Delhi lost 4 wickets for 10 runs. Delhi Capitals had a very bad start after losing the toss and coming to bat first. The team lost 4 wickets for 10 runs only. Wicketkeeper Lizelle Lee and captain Jemimah Rodriguez were out after scoring 4 runs each. At the same time, Laura Vollwart and Marijan Cap could not even open the account. Shefali crossed 100. Despite losing 4 wickets in the powerplay, opener Shefali Verma did not let Delhi’s scoring rate go down. He first made a fifty partnership with Nikki Prasad, then took the team beyond 100 runs with the last batsmen. In front of him, Nikki was out after scoring 12 runs, Minnu Mani after scoring 5 runs and Sneh Rana after scoring 22 runs. Shefali was also out after scoring 62 runs in 41 balls with 4 sixes and 5 fours. In the end, Lucy Hamilton scored 36 runs in 19 balls with 3 fours and 3 sixes. The team was all out after scoring 166 runs. Shreyanka gave 44 runs. For Bengaluru, Lauren Bell took 3 wickets for 26 runs. Whereas Sayali Satghare got 3 wickets after giving 27 runs. Prema Rawat took 2 wickets for 16 runs. Nadine de Klerk took 1 wicket. A batter was also run out. Shreyanka Patil gave 44 runs in 3 overs, but could not take any wicket. Radha Yadav also did not get any wicket. Harris out after scoring 1 run. Against the target of 167 runs, Bengaluru lost the wicket of opener Grace Harris in the third over itself. After scoring 1 run in 4 balls, she was caught by Shefali Verma and was sent to the pavilion by Marizanne Cap. Captain Smriti Mandhana then took charge of RCB with Georgia Woll. The team could score only 37 runs in the powerplay, but the second wicket did not fall. Voll and Mandhana scored 12 runs in the 7th over and 13 runs in the 8th over. The team’s score also reached 113 runs in 12 overs. Mandhana scored fifty and made a century partnership with Voll. Both of them took the team to 143 runs in 16 overs. From here, 24 runs were needed from the last 24 balls, the team achieved the target in only 14 balls. Mandhana missed scoring her first century in WPL. Captain Smriti Mandhana was out after scoring 96 runs. Georgia Voll scored 54 runs in front of her. Mandhana missed out on becoming the first player to score a century in WPL history. Before him, two players had scored 99-99 runs. Mandhana has scored 1 century each in Big Bash League and International cricket. Delhi’s third defeat: Delhi Capitals’ performance in the fourth season was very poor. The team got its third defeat in 4 matches, the team’s only win came against UP Warriors. On the other hand, RCB won its fourth consecutive match. The team has also defeated Gujarat, UP and Mumbai 1-1 match. RCB is at number one with 8 points.
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