A clinical display with bat and ball saw Meg Lanning’s Delhi Capitals open its account in the second edition of the Women’s Premier League.
When Shafali Verma gets going, it is difficult to halt her. She was at her familiar best against UP Warriorz, her unbeaten 43-ball 64 (6×4, 4×6) after an noteworthy bowling appear by Marizanne Kapp (4-1-5-3) and Radha Yadav (4-0-20-4) controlling Delhi Capitals to a nine-wicket win at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Monday.
Captain Meg Lanning and Shafali put on 119 for the opening wicket as Capitals took fair 14.3 overs to seal their to begin with win of WPL 2024 after confining Warriorz to 119 for nine.
Shafali was at her characteristic forceful best, with control and timing the highlights of her innings. She ventured out to crush Deepti Sharma over the long-on boundary to raise her half-century off 36 deliveries.
Lanning, who said at the post-match interaction that she was upbeat to observe the Shafali appear from the other conclusion, played moment fiddle and scored runs with standard elegance.
Jemimah Rodrigues hit the winning run after Lanning, in look of a wonderfulness shot, misplaced her wicket to Sophie Ecclestone.
Prior, the 34-year-old Kapp tore through the top-order. The South African sent back Vrinda Dinesh, Tahlia McGrath and Alyssa Healy by the fifth over of the Warriorz innings.
Vrinda was out for a five ball duck. McGrath was castled and Kapp picked Healy within the same over, wrapping up with the joint-most conservative spell of WPL (Hayley Matthews, MI vs DC, 2023).
Birthday young lady Shweta Sehrawat (45, 42b, 5×4, 1×6) pursued a solitary fight, keeping the scoreboard ticking and giving Warriorz something to protect after being 40 for four at the halfway mark. Radha then cleaned up the lower-order before Shafali and Lanning took flight for Capitals. Know More Latest Women’s Cricket News
