WPL – RCB beats Mumbai Indians by 5 runs to enter final, Delhi News in Hindi

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New Delhi,, On the strength of Ellyse Perry’s brilliant inning of 66 runs and effective bowling by Shreyanka Patil (2-18), Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated defending champions Mumbai Indians by five runs in the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2024 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium here on Friday. Entered the finals.

Now RCB will face Delhi Capitals in the final to be held on the same ground on Sunday.
With the help of eight fours and one six, RCB scored 135/6 in 20 overs with Ellis’ innings. He also played an important role in stopping the run-flow with the ball and dismissing Yastika Bhatia. Shreyanka was economical in her spell and dismissed captain Harmanpreet Kaur in the 18th over to tilt the match in RCB’s favor in front of 27,100 fans. Yastika and Hayley Mathews hit four fours between themselves in the chase of 136. However, Hayley Mathews was out playing a slog-sweep straight to deep midwicket off Shreyanka. RCB kept Mumbai quiet for the rest of the power-play, although Yastika hit two well-timed off-side boundaries. He later found support from Nat Sciver-Brunt, who paddle-swapped and hit two fours. Elise dislocated Yastika’s leg stump and sent him back to the pavilion. Harmanpreet could have been out on a diamond duck if a small part of her bat had not gone beyond the line. Sciver-Brunt hit two fours off Georgia Wareham. Harmanpreet and Amelia Kerr had to be content with rotating the strike. Also, the captain hit boundaries from time to time to keep MI in the match. She got more boundaries by scooping it over the keeper’s head and hitting two fours in the gap between mid-wicket and mid-on. Harmanpreet got a lease of life off Shreyanka at the start of the 18th over when Richa Ghosh missed the stumping. But the off-spinner got the batsman caught out at long-on on the last ball. 16 runs were needed from the last 12 balls. There was pressure on Mumbai. Sajna Sajeevan was stumped off the bowling of Sophie Molineux, while Pooja Vastrakar was out in the same fashion against Asha Shobhana in the last over. RCB conceded only 14 runs in the last three overs and entered the WPL final for the first time. Brief scores: Royal Challengers Bangalore, 135/6 in 20 overs (Ellyse Perry 66; Hayley Matthews 2-18, Nate Sciver-Brunt 2-18 ) beat Mumbai Indians, 130/6 in 20 overs (Harmanpreet Kaur 33, Amelia Kerr 27 not out; Shreyanka Patil 2-16, Asha Shobhana 1-13) by five runs.–IANS

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