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Royal Challengers Bengaluru💜: Smriti Mandhana (c), Danielle Wyatt-Hodge, Ellyse Perry, Sabbhineni Meghana, Raghvi Bist, Richa Ghosh (wk), Georgia Wareham, Kanika Ahuja, Kim Garth, Prema Rawat, Renuka Thakur Singh, Ekta Bisht, Heather Graham, Sophie Molineux, Shreyanka Patil, Jagravi Pawar, Asha Sobhana, Joshitha V J
Gujarat Giants Women📖: Laura Wolvaardt, Beth Mooney (wk), Harleen Deol, Deandra Dottin, Dayalan Hemalatha, Ashleigh Gardner (c), Simran Shaikh, Meghna Singh, Sayali Satghare, Tanuja Kanwar, Priya Mishra, Kashvee Gautam, Mannat Kashyap, Shabnam Md Shakil, Prakashika Naik, Bharti Fulmali, Phoebe Litchfield, Danielle Gibson
🔯The live telecast of the Gujarat Giants Vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru, WPL 2025 Match 1 will be available on the Sports 18 HD/SD channel in India.
🦩The Gujarat Giants Vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru, WPL 2025 Match 1 will get underway at 7:30 pm IST. The toss is scheduled for 7:00 pm.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (probable XI): 1. Smriti Mandhana 🥃(capt), 2 Danni Wyatt-Hodge, 3 S Meghana, 4 Ellyse Perry, 5 Richa Ghosh, 6 Raghvi Bist, 7 Kanika Ahuja, 8 Georgia Wareham, 9 Jagravi Pawar, 10 Kim Garth, 11 Renuka Singh.
Gujarat Giants🐲 (probable): 1 Beth Mooney (wk), 2 Laura Wolvaardt, 3 Harleen Deol, 4 Deandra Dottin, 5 Dayalan Hemalatha, 6 Ashleigh Gardner (capt), 7 Simran Shaikh, 8 Sayali Satghare, 8 Meghna Singh, 9 Tanuja Kanwar, 10 Kashvee Gautam, 11 Shabnam Shakil/Mannat Kashyap.
🦄We are 15 minutes away from the toss for the first match of WPL 2025. Are you ready? New, better, and a cracking season awaits.
𒆙Royal Challengers Bengaluru have opted to field first in game 1 of the WPL 2025 with dew in mind. Can the Gujarat Giants post a solid total and defend against the defending champions?
Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women🌃 (Playing XI): Smriti Mandhana(c), Danielle Wyatt-Hodge, Ellyse Perry, Raghvi Bist, Richa Ghosh(w), Kanika Ahuja, Georgia Wareham, Kim Garth, Prema Rawat, Joshitha V J, Renuka Thakur Singh
Gujarat Giants Women♏ (Playing XI): Laura Wolvaardt, Beth Mooney(w), Dayalan Hemalatha, Ashleigh Gardner(c), Deandra Dottin, Harleen Deol, Simran Shaikh, Tanuja Kanwar, Sayali Satghare, Priya Mishra, Kashvee Gautam
๊Royal Challengers Bengaluru players hurdle up before they walk into the ground. Laura Wolvaardt and Beth Mooney open for Gujarat Giants, while Renuka Singh has the new ball. Let's play!
♐Renuka Singh is off to a decent start with the ball swinging the ball in and away to both batters. Beth Mooney has already showcased her intent, not afraid to attack. Overall, a good first over for season 3.
♏This is now a very good start for the Gujarat Giants. Both openers Mooney and Wolvaardt have looked to score runs, while the RCB bowlers have been a little wayward in their execution. Not the right radar so far.
🐼And that's the first wicket of the Women's Premier League 2025, and it belongs to Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Renuka Singh. Straight through the gate.
🎉This is a very good comeback by Royal Challengers Bengaluru. They now have their second of the night and it is Dayalan Hemalatha who will walk back after her short stay.
And that's the first strategic time-out of the competiton, and Royal Challengers Bengaluru ♏are slightly ahead after nine overs. However Beth Mooney has been brilliant, while Ashleigh Gardener will look to soon up the ante.
🔯And that's an important, important breakthrough for RCB as the well set Beth Mooney has to walk back after a sensational fifty. With eight overs to go, GG are 87 for the loss of three wickets, with Gardener and Dottin out there in the middle.
ಞAshleigh Gardener doing Ashleigh Gardener things. 6,6,6 and the Gujarat Giants skipper is in the zone. Clean hitting. Brutal hitting. Class hitting. RCB and Smriti Mandhana are under a bit of pressure now.
ಞA revamped Gujarat Giants are rampaging in Vadodara. Both Deandra Dottin and Ashleigh Gardener have found their attacking touch and are going at a rate of knots. However, Renuka gives RCB a much needed breakthrough and Dottin has to walk back. Good cameo.
ꦉThe Gujarat Giants skipper is batting like an absolute dream out there, and she is just 22 away from her hundred. She's scored 78 in just 34 balls. Unbelievable batting.
♏A sensational display from the Gujarat Giants sees them score a mammoth 201/5 in just 20 overs. This is also the fourth highest score in the Women's Premier League. Ashleigh Gardener remains unbeaten on 79 from just 37 balls. The defending champions have all the catching upto do in the second innings.
🦋Ayushmann Khurana takes the centre stage to light up the Kotambi Stadium with his performance in the opening day of Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2025 match between GG-W Vs RCB-W.
ಌRoyal Challengers Bengaluru are up and running, and so is Smriti Mandhana. The skipper looks in the zone early on, and needs to carry on. Her partner, Danni Wyatt-Hodge also has started off on an attacking note. RCB seem to be in the mood.
🎃What can Ashleigh Gardener do wrong tonight? She led the way with the bat earlier on, and now she's doing it with the ball. RCB are struggling and are two down for not much. Raghvi Bisht joins Ellyse Perry in the middle.
𝄹Royal Challengers Bengaluru are slowly picking up pace and ticking the score as they have raced to 42 for the loss of two in five overs. Ellyse Perry and Raghvi Bisht are looking in good touch. Can they move at the same pace will be the big question.
𝓡The Perry-Bisht partnership continues to grow for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru unit as RCB pick up the scoring rate. However, they still have a mountain to climb, needing 133 from 72.
﷽Ellyse Perry doing Ellyse Perry things. Champion player. Under pressure, and she's been sensational. However, Dottin has struck and Bist has to make the walk back after a decent supportive role.
🍌Is that the game for Gujarat Titans? The dangerous Ellyse Perry has to walk back after a brilliant fifty. All the hopes will now be pinned on Richa Ghosh, but can she pull off a Vadodara miracle?
🅰Richa Ghosh is playing an absolute blinder here. What an over. 23 from it, sensational staff fron RCB. And that is also the strategic time-out. They suddenly need 40 from 24, and it looks chaseable.
ꦡStunning, stunning display of ball striking. Richa Ghosh has reached her fifty in just 23 balls, and Royal Challengers Bengaluru are in cruise control. Should be an easy chase from here.
ꦰWhat have we just witnessed? What calmness. Stunning chase, and the defending champions are up and running. It might be a start of the new season, but it is off with a bang for RCB.
🌸Royal Challengers Bengaluru down the Gujarat Giant chasing down a record target at the Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara.
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ܫ"It is pretty flattening to be honest, we knew it was a par score at the halfway stage and we dropped some chances and it hurt us in the end. There are always gonna be positives, there were some really good glimpses with the ball as well but when you miss those chances it can hurt you, Richa made sure she got her team over the line with a brilliant knock."
"We know it is gonna get very dewy and it was very tricky to hold the ball in the end, but we are not gonna use that as an excuse for the loss. We were in a very good position to win that game, and unfortunately it wasn't to be. We want to keep playing fearless cricket 🐷with both bat and ball and remain positive and the rest hopefully takes care of itself."
ꩵ"Really happy to be on the winning side. The way Richa batted, it was brilliant to watch in the end. They have been doing that in the nets to all our bowlers and we always thought we were in the game after the first innings because of the dew. We had a good auction and whoever came in for the injured, thought they were all good replacements."
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