After having a horrendous marketing campaign within the inaugural version of the Women Premier League (WPL), Royal Challengers Bangalore girls (RCB-W) have a made staggering comeback within the ongoing second version. The Smriti Mandhana-led aspect certified for the playoffs on Tuesday (twelfth March).
Royal Challengers Bangalore girls (RCB-W) booked a berth within the playoffs after their win over Mumbai Indians on the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. The Smriti Mandhana-led RCB-W produced an impressive effort with bat and ball within the must-win encounter and dominated the sport.
RCB-W gained the toss and opted to discipline first. Ellyse Perry stole the limelight with the ball for the workforce as he produced a match-winning effort with the ball. After going wicketless for six video games, she made certain she made up for that within the must-win encounter for the workforce on the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi.
Ellyse Perry picked 6 wickets and altered the course of the sport. At the beginning, Mumbai Indians have been within the sport as Hayley Matthews (26) and S Sajana (30) added 43 runs for the opening partnership. However the opening wicket triggered the collapse as Mumbai got here below quite a lot of stress.
Ellyse Perry registered the perfect figures within the WPL and returned with figures of 6/15. Because of her valiant effort with the ball, Royal Challengers Bangalore bundled out Mumbai Indians for simply 113 runs and wrapped up the innings in 19 overs.
Throughout the chase, RCB-W have been off to a shaky begin. They misplaced three fast wickets and have been left tottering at 39/3. It was then when Ellyse Perry but once more stood tall for her workforce and performed an impressive innings together with Wealthy Ghosh.
Ellyse Perry (40*) and Richa Ghosh (36*) added 76 runs collectively and powered RCB-W to the win in 15 overs. With the win, they grew to become the third workforce within the Girls’s Premier League to qualify for the playoffs alongside Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians.
Glad everybody stepped up within the essential match – Smriti Mandhana on RCB-W’s win
Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Smriti Mandhana opened up in regards to the win and revealed how she lifted her workforce up after a 1-run loss within the final sport. Whereas highlighting the significance of the sport towards Mumbai Indians, she lauded the efforts of Ellyse Perry. Chatting with broadcasters, she said:
“The final match dropping by one run is just not ideally suited, the entire dialog was that 1 run doesn’t make us a foul workforce. We had truly performed some good cricket this season and simply wanted to maintain our heads excessive. They did have a very good begin, however there was little calmness with the group in the present day from the time we had our assembly and it was an excellent spell (from Perry) to observe.
“At the moment’s match was essential for us to get going, we wished to return out and play good cricket and for Perry to return again and take these 6 wickets, wow that was some sight to observe. We didn’t deal with different groups and different equations, we simply wished to win and glad everybody stepped up within the essential match,” she concluded.
