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NEW DELHI: A measured half-century from skipper Meg Lanning was adopted by an all-round efficiency from the bowlers as Delhi Capitals beat Gujarat Giants by 25 runs in Girls’s Premier League Match 10 in Bengaluru to reclaim the highest spot within the standings.
The victory was Delhi’s third of the season as Gujarat Giants suffered their fourth straight loss on the trot.The Giants are but to win a single recreation this season.
After skipper Lanning’s 41-ball 55 took Delhi to 163 for eight, Jess Jonassen and Radha Yadav three-fors restricted Gujarat to 138 for eight within the chase.
The victory was Delhi’s third of the season as Gujarat Giants suffered their fourth straight loss on the trot.The Giants are but to win a single recreation this season.
After skipper Lanning’s 41-ball 55 took Delhi to 163 for eight, Jess Jonassen and Radha Yadav three-fors restricted Gujarat to 138 for eight within the chase.
Lanning knock was Capitals’ guiding power was it took the facet to a stable complete regardless of a late flurry of wickets.
The Giants’ chase by no means grew wings, ending up ending up brief regardless of Ashleigh Gardner’s well-timed 40 off 31 balls.
As It Occurred
Jonassen led Capitals’ bowling with a shrewd spell (3/22) and he or she obtained excellent assist from Radha Yadav (3/20). The win additionally propelled Delhi to the highest of the desk with six factors.
The Gujarat facet made a shaky begin, conceding a maiden within the very first over to WPL debutant pacer Titas Sadhu.
Their starting was additional marred when skilled pacer Shikha Pandey castled Laura Wolvaardt with a supply that formed in that tiny bit to beat her swat.
However the Giants too discovered some circulation as captain Beth Mooney and Phoebe Litchfield mixed to smash 15 runs within the fourth over bowled by Pandey.
Nevertheless, it was simply an remoted spark because the Giants stumbled towards Jonassen. Within the fifth over, the Australian spinner jettisoned Mooney and Litchfield within the house of 4 balls to cut back Giants to 34 for 3.
Gardner displayed her energy whereas hammering pacer Annabel Sutherland for 2 fours and a six within the twelfth over to make a complete of 16 runs.
It may need given a tinge of hope to the Giants however Jonassen snuffed that out when she had Gardner stumped by Taniya Bhatia.
Earlier than that Yadav bagged the essential wickets of Veda Krishnamoorthy and Kathryn Bryce as Gujarat struggled to sew collectively any significant partnership.
Earlier, Lanning used her expertise to tempo her innings nicely and construct a few good partnerships after Giants opted to area first.
Shafali Verma (13, 9b), as standard, flew off the traps with a six and 4 off left-arm spinner Tanuja Kanwar however her cameo got here to an finish very quickly.
Verma’s uppish flick of pacer Meghana Singh, essentially the most profitable Gujarat bowler with a four-wicket haul, went straight to Wolvaardt close to backward sq. leg.
The dismissal introduced Lanning, who was dropped on 30, and in-form Alice Capsey collectively. They scored 38 runs for the second wicket, serving to Delhi to achieve 51 for 1 within the Energy Play section.
As soon as Capsey departed, an edgy Jemimah Rodrigues (7 off 10) helped Lanning add 47 runs for the third wicket. Lanning shed her low-gear method throughout this passage to tug some high photographs out of the draw reminiscent of a large hit for six over long-off off Kathryn Bryce.
Lanning reached her fifty in 39 balls however couldn’t keep within the center for lengthy as her slash off Meghana settled within the fingers of D Hemalatha at cowl level.
The return of Lanning to the dug-out dashed Delhi’s try to up the scoring price as they misplaced wickets at common intervals and likewise didn’t fetch a boundary for twenty-four balls between 15.2 and 19.3 overs.
However by then that they had put sufficient runs on the board.
(With inputs from PTI)
