Royal Challengers Bangalore vs UP Warriors
The second game of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2024 season also ended very excitingly. The Royal Challengers Bangalore women’s team won this game against UP Warriors by 2 runs. In this game for the RCB team, spin bowler Shobhana Asha showed the magic of her spin and picked up five wickets. In the second match of the season, the RCB team, batting first, scored 157 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. Thereafter, in pursuit of the target, the UP Warriors team managed to reach a score of 155 in 20 overs.
Shobhana turned the entire game around by taking a wicket at a crucial time.
The UP Warriors team, chasing the target of 157 runs, had a very poor start to this game. Captain Alyssa Healy became the victim of Sophie Molineux after scoring just 5 runs. Vrinda Dinesh and Tahlia McGrath then took charge of the innings and increased the score to 48 runs. UP Warriors suffered the second blow in the form of Vrinda, who lost her wicket to the ball of Shobhana after scoring 18 runs. With the score at 49, UP lost its third wicket in the form of Tahlia. From here, Grace Harris and Shweta Sehrawat took over the team’s innings and took the score to over 100. At a time when it seemed that both of them would give the UP team an easy win in this match, Shobhana Asha broke the partnership of 77 runs for the fourth wicket by taking the wicket of Shweta.
The UP Warriors team suffered their fourth blow at a score of 126 and at a score of 128 the team had lost 6 wickets. Thereafter, there was a small partnership of 19 runs between Poonam Khemmar and Deepti Sharma for the 7th wicket. UP Warriors lost their seventh wicket in the form of Poonam with the score at 147. UP Warriors needed 11 runs to win in the last over of this match but Sophie Molineux didn’t let them win by providing just 8 runs. While Shobhana took 5 wickets with the ball for RCB in this game and scored 22 runs in her 4 overs, Molineux and Wareham took 1 wicket each.
Richa Ghosh and S from RCB. Meghana performed amazingly with the bat
If we talk about the Royal Challengers Bangalore team’s batting performance in this match, then captain Smriti Mandhana could only score 13 runs while Sophie Devine also returned to the pavilion after scoring just one run. S. Meghna led the innings from one end receiving the support of Richa Ghosh. For the fourth wicket, a partnership of 71 runs in 50 balls was seen between the two, on the basis of which the RCB women’s team was able to post a fighting score in this match. . While Richa Ghosh played an innings of 62 runs, S. An innings of 53 runs was seen from Meghana’s bat. Rajeshwari Gaikwad took two wickets with the ball in this game for UP Warriors.
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