Win toss, bowl first, chase it down.
There was no change in the sample on Wednesday evening in WPL 3. The first leg of the league ended at the BCA Stadium with Delhi Capitals beating UP Warriorz by seven wickets with a ball to spare.
When you’ve gotten the finest partnership in the event’s historical past, the chasing turns into a tad simpler. Meg Lanning (69, 49b, 12×4) and Shafali Verma (26, 16b, 3×4, 1×6) gave the Capitals one other splendid begin. Chasing the Warriorz’s 166 for seven, they struck 65 in lower than seven overs.
It was but once more the youthful opener that put the stress on the bowlers from early on. Shafali smashed younger seamer Kranti Goud for a 4 and 6 off successive balls in the first over.
It appeared luck was favouring Shafali, as she was dropped by Chinelle Henry off the Warriorz captain Deepti Sharma at deep mid-wicket. But off the fifth ball of the over, the West Indian, making her WPL debut, redeemed herself and held the catch.
In the following over, Sophie Ecclestone despatched Jemimah Rodrigues again for a two-ball duck. But Lanning was batting serenely.
She placed on 49 for the third wicket with fellow-Australian Annabel Sutherland (41 not out, 35b, 4×4) earlier than she shuffled throughout an excessive amount of and was bowled by Grace Harris. Sutherland and Marizanne Kapp (29 not out, 17b, 4×4) then took their facet house with their unbroken fourth wicket stand of 48.
Earlier, it was two blistering knocks, at both finish of the innings, that gave UP Warriorz a preventing whole.
Opener Kiran Navgire (51, 27b, 6×4, 3×6) and Henry (33 not out, 15b, 3×4, 3×6) delighted the massive crowd that got here to watch Vadodara’s final WPL match of the season. There was additionally a mature innings from the younger Shweta Sehrawat (37, 33b, 4×4, 1×6).
But, it was Lanning’s experience that carried the evening.
Published – February 20, 2025 12:53 am IST
