WPL 2024: Royal Challengers Bangalore team defeated Mumbai Indians team by 5 runs in the eliminator of Women’s Premier League. With the victory in this match, he has also reached the finals.
WPL 2024: The eliminator match of the Women’s Premier League was played between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore women’s team in Delhi. By winning by a margin of five runs, the Royal Challengers Bangalore squad advanced to the championship game. Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore will now square off in the tournament’s second-season finale. As the top team in the points system, Delhi has already guaranteed a spot in the finals. The winning squad from the previous season was ousted from the tournament one round before the championship game, therefore their hopes of taking home the trophy for a second season were dashed.
How was the match?
Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore faced off in a Women’s Premier League elimination match. Smriti Mandhana, the captain of RCB, won the toss and chose to bat first. At first, the team appeared to be making a grave mistake in choosing this decision. In the first four overs, the squad lost three crucial wickets at a cost of 23 runs. RCB lost wickets continuously, but the team’s star player Ellyse Perry stood at one end and supported the team till the last over.
Perry took over the innings of RCB
The team reached a decent total of 135 runs in the allotted 20 overs, losing 6 wickets, despite Perry being out on the second ball of the final over. Perry played an innings of 66 runs in 50 balls during this time. No other batter, including Perry, was able to score more than 20 runs. The onus of saving this total placed mostly on the team’s bowlers following Perry’s outstanding effort.
Mumbai Indians failed in run chase
The Mumbai Indians side was set a goal of 136 runs in 120 balls, but after losing six wickets in the allotted 20 overs, they could only muster 130 runs, and RCB won the match. Harmanpreet Kaur played this innings on 30 balls, which was a very slow innings, but she scored the maximum 33 runs for Mumbai during this time. Georgia Wareham, Ellyse Perry, Sophie Molineux, Asha Shobhana, and Shreyanka Patil each claimed one wicket for the RCB. The Mumbai Indians women’s squad has only lost in the race pursuit twice in WPL history, and it was during the elimination round.
