Royal Challengers Bangalore succumbed to a fifth consecutive defeat in the Women's Premier League here on Monday night as Delhi Capitals clinched a six-wicket win in a tense finish. (More Cricket News)
Ellyse Perry's fifty went in vain a second time in as many matches, as Jess Jonassen and Marizanne Kapp maintained their composure in a match that went down to the wire, scoring 29 and 32, respectively, to bring DC home.
Royal Challengers Bangalore succumbed to a fifth consecutive defeat in the Women's Premier League here on Monday night as Delhi Capitals clinched a six-wicket win in a tense finish. (More Cricket News)
Chasing 151 on what turned out to be a challen🌌ging surface to bat on, Delhi Capitals were guided by the pair of Jess Jonas❀sen (29 not out) and Marizanne Kapp (32 not out), who produced an all-round show.
After delivering a superb 4-0-17-0 in the first half, Kapp guided Delhi past the finish line with an🗹 unbeaten 32 not out from as mཧany balls, laced with three fours and one six.
Jonassen smacked Renuka Singh for a sജix and a four to finish off the game with two balls to spare, reaching 29 not out off 15 balls with four fours and one hit over the fence.ౠ
Delhi Capitals scored 154/4 in 19.4 overs.
Delhi Capitals remained on the second spot in the points table with four wins giving them e𒁃ight points, whereas RCB were pushed closer🐬 to elimination since they have endured a horror campaign in the inaugural WPL, losing all their five matches.
Delhi Capitals were rocked early by🎀 Megan Schutt, who cleaned up the dangerous Shafali Verma on the second ball of the innings to provide her side with a promising start.
But Alice Capsey took charge as she launched a flurry of boundaries to put Delhi on track. However, h🃏er charge was halted by Preeti Bose, who dismissed the right-handed batter for a well-made 38 off 🥂24 balls with eight hits to the fence.
Capsey's knock was crucial given that it gave her side much-needed momentum on a tough surface where the RCB bat🌟ters had found life difficult for the majority of their first innings.
Delhi's leadership pair of Meg Lanning and Jemimah Rodrigues could add 🎐only 25 r💯uns before their stand was broken, in the ninth over.
Lanning𝔉 danced down the track to hit Sobhana Asha over the ropes, but could not get the distance and Heather Knight grabbed a clean catch.
Dismissed for just 15 off 14 balls, the Orange Cap-holder Lanni🎀ng recorded her lowest score in the league.
A crucial moment arrived in the game on the first ball of the 12th over, when Preeti Bose at poওint dropped a regulation catch to give a reprieve to Rodrigues, batting on 17.
However, Rodrigues perished in the 15th over af🗹💞ter making 32 from 28 balls with three fours, caught by Richa Ghosh off Asha.
The remaining runs were k🌄nocked o💎ff by Kapp and Jonassen, who added 45 runs for the fifth wicket.
Earꦓlier in the game, RCB scored a competitive score in their 20 overs with Ellyse Perry 🍨(67 not out) and Richa Ghosh (37) providing them late impetus.
RCB had managed 50/ꦛ2 at the halfway mark, but their batters found rh♔ythm and did well to add another 100 to their total in the final 10 overs.
The final six o👍vers yielded 82 runs for RCB, with Perry finishing unღbeaten on 67 from 52 balls with four fours and five sixes, and Ghosh producing her best knock in the tournament so far.
The right-handed India and RCB wicketkeeper-batter swatted three fours and𒈔 as many s🅰ixes to make 37 from just 16 balls before a mishit ended her innings off Shikha Pandey.
Pandey was in her element on Monday night, snaffling an important couple of wickets at the top in the form of the out-of-sorts Smriti Mandhan♚a (8) and the dangerous Sophie Devine (21).
Pandey also grabbed a sharp and athletic catch at short fine-leg to get rid of Heather Knight (11) off Tara Norris. 𒀰However, Pandey dropped Perry on 🍨29 off her own bowling, and the RCB batter made the most of the lifeline.
Kapp, coming off a brilliant five-for in Delhi's last outing, could not get a wicket on 🏅Monday but bowled yet another impressive spell of 4-0-17-0.